OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1916, Page 5

OBITUARY.

IfR, DANIEL HiDGHES. ■'■ , * The death took place in Xew WJK mouth yesterday afternoon of' Mr. Daniel Hughes, ope of Taranaki'g bMfev known settlers. He had 'been ailing.fagsome time, and bis end wag not unsafe, pected. Born in inurics, County 1845, he left Treland at the age <jf Ift . for Victoria, subsequently proceeding to] the West Coast goldflelds, but soon tired) oi the mining life„*iid shifted to TCm nganui, and then to Patea, Inter up laud on the, Waimate Plains/ He, alsi took up contracting work, and metalled a good portion of the road be*. tween Patea and Opunakc. He was. a. good judge of draught horses, as well as of thoroughbreds. He owned raced several, one of the finest hones ever bred in Taranaki being Kabjjt*, During' the war with Titqkowaru, tin acted as guide to tho soldiers. Bte wm at the first Te Xgutu-o-te-Manu flgiii, On one occasion the friendly Maoris fighting with the pakehas came acron three Maori babes. They promptly fciH|fl two, and were about to despatch 43&j| third when Dan. Hughes arrived on thai scene and saved its life. That «884 is * now Fox, the well-known interpreter, The lato Sir. Hughes was a great law of the Shorthorn dairy cattle, and &6J • much to advance the breed in Taranafcl, ' He was particularly upright, and wifl be missed by a. large circle of frlenftfc He leaves a widow, whom ho married! at Patea in 1808, a daughter of'the- latej Sergeant Ward, a Crimean veteran, ano} a family of ten children were Of the sons, one lost his life at Gallic poli last year, one is in Egypt, serving with the colors, one is in camp in Featherston, and the other is Mr. J). J, Hughes, of New Plymouth, who ia thej eldest of the family. There are three daughters married, and one single, and sixteen grand-children, He leave* twa sisters, Mrs. P. McGovern {Auckland* and Mrs. Doran (Now York). ■• ■"■ •••<• i