OBITUARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10068, 9 February 1909, Page 3

OBITUARY.

it'i-H I'p.kss As-ociatiox.) .. Wellinjrt.m. February 9. t'n v - fl' 1 - wl'.n has represented jj]T " Vdistrict ill Parliament UMi-' J ' :n a hospital in t *" l!l r t " ri ° L ''-is m'irniii; from tubercular tawrr::,..,.. He uao a S c,l 40. \~™l lfekt». who represented the nf'c ' elxtorate in the House 2 was l,„rn at Kaikoke. „ - v,; "x!an«l provini-e. in 1569, and B.i. a 'it'pheu- <.f t!i- historic Jfone i"!) I .!' the town of Kororareka cO;h March. 1845. .Mr Hefce was a '_ /-*. Stephen":!. Auckland, and htV studies* lor i jL I ™'' in larmins mirsuits. He acted mter P r «er for the Hon. A. J. at_the mwtin-r of natives held at i,;i -" r Mantis some years a_ r o; and ni £ f' appointment in the Native Lands sifen 1 } yelli . n &M until 1897. This potiie TOS '-' : fd some nv-nttis before &S' t* :r *'v or ~ 'hat year to eonofW 5 ort h er n Maori seat in the House [L F rf ten-.ative e . Ho was. returned at spar t?- 41 - t ' le r*^' l - * ltM ' "retained his Mmbe f Ji> heing returned in De-jr-.-.J 7 "st hv an overwhelminz niatjTe-" Heke always took an acWteras*"' ' r "i a< l vanc enienfc °l native Us.: anc > was ever busy in and out of "Uttipm to the wants of his conH e ( :; > . lir " 1 °t the Maori race generally, native ho T ever " c °nthK> himself to lent invr- frs - ' but too ' K an 'ntellilifcations j" aI! , thc leading political lot av ,jt t*. 7'- ♦'ay- -Mr Heke did !>« tfle interpreter when "i ;fu> tv.i- . , he always spoke . at, - u;l t r ''. in which he was " e «:is a 'i! n< * l most fluent speaker. a . L, " l versationalist, and * tlcil m em () el . s o^*p- v .? u " TOt u>nor voi <*> "PPortanities of f . ar ' t;lment had many