PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3112, 10 February 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Hone Heke, M.P., for the Northern Maori electorate, died at Wellington, yesterday morning. He had been in failing health for some time, and a week or two ago his condition became so serious that he had to be sent to a private hospital at Wellington, where he passed away, the cause of death being tubercular hemorrhage. He was only forty years of age, having been born at Kaikohe, in the Auckland province. He was the son of Hcne Ngapua Tuhirangi, of the Bay of Island?, and a grandson of the famous fighting chief, Hone Heke, who sacked the township of Kororareka in March, 1845. In 1891 he entered the Government service as clerk in the Native Land Court office, but in 1892 he resigned and took up the position of leader of the Maori Federated Tribes™ of New Zealand (except the tribes under the movement of the Maori "King," those re?idi g in Thames a-id Waikato, and the followers of Te Whiti and Tohu. Parihaka*. The object of the federation was to petition Parliament fnr Homo Rule for the Maoris. In 1893 he contested the Northern Maori s a nt. and was returned at i:h" head of the poll That position he has held ever sincr.

Serjeant J. Treanor, of Napier, who has hoen appointed station sergeant at Auckland, joined 4 he Armed Constabulary at Wellington in 1573, and served with that body at t u e East Cape for a couole of ycaro, afterwards being transferred first to Ormond, in the Poverty Bay district, and then to Waikaremoana, being in clvrge of the la iter plac\ where he was promote 1 to the rank of first-class sergeant, for two or three years. Subsequently he was'i i Wellington for a time, engaged in drilling trojpers of the Armed Constabulary, afterwards being transferred to Opunake, and thence to Parihaka. On the Armed Constabulary b?ing disbanded, he joined the pdice force as a constable, giving up his stripes, and in 1885 was transferred to Wanganui. He then came to Napier as district clerk, under Inspector Bnllen. Liter he was stationed in Auckland, having been promoted to the rank of sergeant, and, after spending three years there, returned to Najr'er in 1900, and has remained there since.