Obituary MR A. CAHILL

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28435, 15 November 1957, Page 6

Obituary MR A. CAHILL

(From Our Own Reporter) WAIMATE, November 14.

Adam Cahill, an Australian aborigine, known as “Queensland Harry,’’ died at Waimate on Wednesday night. He was 82 years of age, and for half his life had followed the career of a roughrider and showman.

“Queensland Harry’’ came to Waimate on his first visit during a tour with his own buckjumping and vaudeville show. When his company after several years, broke up, he remained in Waimate, and during 30 years was given employment over a wide area in breaking in horses. He retained his ability to the last, and less than two years ago accepted invitations to rodeos at Stratford

and at Tapanui where he acted as judge and also apparently again mounted to the saddle on an outlaw at Stratford because he returned home with a broken wrist.

“Harry’’ was born on a station 240 miles from Rockhampton, Queensland. He was given his name by a Mrs Cahill, wife of a publican, who brought him up. Because of ill-treatment by boys at the school he attended, he ran away from home, and very soon made a name for himself as a roughrider with Skewthorpe’s Wild West Show in Sydney. He went to Tasmania when he was 17 years of age, remaining there after he had missed a ship he had joined as a member of the crew. Several years later he came to New Zealand and joined Barton Brothers’ circus. He left the circus to settle for a time at Hawera,