HIS CAREER.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 256, 18 April 1888, Page 4

HIS CAREER.

The Hon. Henry Chamberlain came to this colony between 30 and 35 years ago, his brother Charles being also with him. Mr Chamberlain brought with him about €20,000 which he expended with great care, principally in land. Chamberlain's Island was one of his investments, and it was on this that his brother Charles resided. The deceased was a great landholder in the Raglan district, and until recently completely blocked the settlement. He subsequently gave instructions to an auctioneer to sell this land in order to facilitate settlement in the district. Ust week the deceased called upon Mr T. B. Hill, chemist, Queenstreet, who is also a landholder at Raglan, and stated that upon his return from Drury he intended proceeding to , Raglan to prospect for coal on his estate there. Some twenty-five years ago Mr Chamberlain contested a seat in the Provincial Council, and was unsuccessful. The Hon. Dr. Pollen shortly afterward called him to the Upper House, a position which he has held ever since. His political career has not been remark-

ably brilliant. Annually the honourable gentleman introduced a motion prohibiting the employment of females behind the bars of hotels, and juat as regu- ! lavly did the members of the House cust it out. Regarding the appointment of Mr Chamberlain to the Upper House, it was stated that his name was gazetted by mistake for that of his brother, and that he was not asked whether he would accept the scat until after the mistake was discovered. Dr. Pollen, however, states that, noticing Mr Chamberlain talcing an interest in polities, he called him to the Upper Hou.sc, shortly alter his attempt to get elected into the Pnrvincial Council, Until recently the deceased gentleman and his wife resided in Gladstone Road. They, however, gave up the house a short time ago and decided to li\e in apaitmcutrf. Mr Chamberlain had one daughter, who is manicd to Mr James Laing, a gentleman who was in (ho employment of the New Zealand Shipping Company in Auckland, but now resides at Gisborne. Mis, Chambeilain piocccdc'. to Drury this morning, and Doteothe Herbert was also despatched to make fuller inquiries into the cause of death. For years Mr Chamberlain ha.s been a director of the South British Insurance Company, and on moie than one occasion he made matters lively at the annual meet ings of shareholders At the last meeting, howe\cr, he retiied from the directorate. To-day the Hag of the South British Buildings was floating half-mast high. The deceased wa-, culled to the Upper House on the 1-1- of June, 1869, in company with Messrs C. T. Taylor, .James O'Mell, W. Robinson and F. Dart Fenton. On Matin day owning Mis Chamberlain attempted to telegraph to Drury, but unsuccessfully. Khcagdin made the attempt on Sunday, and at length succeeded in opening up communication, and subsequently iccmeda message to the elleet that "Mr Chambeilain had not been seen or heaid of since he anived."' It was inconsequence of this that Mis ( hambcrlain proceeded to Drury b} r the ttain this motning. Since Mr (.hambcrlain let his house in (Jladstone (toad, I'arnell, ho has been leading in Mrs H.i/lett's boarding-hou.-e, near the Albert I'aik.