Hon. Hugh Gourley.

The Hon. Hugh Gourley, a well-known citizen of Dunedin, died at that town on Sunday. Mr Gourley was a member of the Legislative Council from 1889 until June of this year, when his term of appointment expired. Mr Gourley was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1825, and twenty-seven years later landed in Victoria, where he spent a considerable time on the diggings. He settled in Dunedin in the early sixties, commencing in business as a saddler.