SIR A. J. CADMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 203, 29 June 1903, Page 2

SIR A. J. CADMAN.

1 The recognition by His M jesiy ths J J Kirg of the eervices of Sir Alfred; JgtQine Cadoaap, by coufatring on him! the honour of K.0.M.G., will give' pleasure throughm'; the colony, but,h'V efforts to establish the ironsnud industry gives his well-deserved honour special interest in No.v Plymouth, and ■ the .news of his. ehvation will) wa j believe,, be. very gfatiFyihg to the p op!e of T«anaki. Sir A. J. badman' is well known in the p-.li ical life of this colony. The eldest sop of. the late I Mr Jerome CadmaD, he was born in Sydney ,in 1847, and < was an ihfant when his parents eroußcd over to Now , ,Ze4 iii 4... He wis . educated .at the parish fc'aools of St. Paul's and S;. •Matthew's and Weslsy College, Auck; land. Having served an appren'icerh'ip 1o Mr E I. Matthews, at the carpentering tradp, he wont to set'le, when twenty one, at Oorbmandel, where - he entered in a sawmi'ling busiues l , in which he did well for many years, He first entered politics bb a member of ths Tiki Highway Boatd at Co;o----m*nde'. After serving that body and jthe Corotnandcl County Oottnbil ' as chairman, whi;h latter posi'ion he h4d for ten years, he, at the end of : 1881, first entered Parliament as member for 0 Ooromandel. Three years later) and _ again.in 1887, be was re-elcc'ed. In 0 1890 he Was elected' for „the Thames, electorate after a severe fight. In 1893 | came the famous encounter with Mr u W.VR 6 J , who attacked him on the it floor of the Hou-e in regard lo native lands. Mr Oadman chalUng'd Mr Kees to resign his seat and contest Lis _ constituency with him, so that the j- bleetora might express an op : nion oo the charges, and on his conduct as a j Mr Rers acoepted.the chal lebge, and chose his own constituency, Auckland city, for the ontes% and t, after a sevc-e stiuigle, Mr o*dm»n was returnpd by one of the lirgeit majo itiis, 750, ever gained before tht- : advent of fimale fuSVage. At th general e'eetion of 1893, Mr Oadman was returned for Waikato, and c.»n----i ued to ho!d that seat un'il h's e'eva- ~ tin to the Legii-lativa Council. During his a hole career he nfever los 1 ; e g el b ion. He first became a < Minister of ihe Grown in the Balbnci » Ministry in 1891, when he was »p----3 poiiitcd Oommis-iontr of Stamps, i> 3 pcs 'ion he retained for only: s'x days. ~ In February of the fame y<-ar he took 2 the portfolio of Native Affiiw, and it 8 May ho was appointed Minister o' 4 Justice. In the Saddon Gov rnment 6 he hfcld the same portfolios until his 6 resignation in 1893. Oa bis return to g r ne House he was pressed to resume tin old portfolios, but declined, and was ~ pjointtd Minister of Mines and Jus fcice. As Minister of Mines he mad? j the min ng d p rtment a real l'vi ih-| ■s i' u ion. It was, however, as Minister of Railways 'hat he was best and did ezctl'ent work. He tcok the poitfollo of railways io Jannary, 1895, nd complatt ly reorganised-the service. . In 1876 Mr Oadman marriel a dmghter of Mr Joseph Bell, J.P,, Whangarei. Mrs Cadman died in 1892, leaving a eon and a daughter.