SEQUEL TO THE HOOLEY ARTICLE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 November 1911, Page 3

SEQUEL TO THE HOOLEY ARTICLE.

To the Editor. Sir, —In .reference to an article on E. T. Hooley, the millionaire, in your issue of yesterday, 1 noted the following: "Among other tilings he presented the great Cathedral of St. Paul's vritli an entire comimnron service in solid gold, a present that was joyfully accepted by *the Cathedral authorities, and at the same time freely criticised by more cautions observers who ill .ad often seen many such financial meteors blaze and then disappear." Allow me to add the sequel, which I had given me on good authority some years ago. When. E. T. Hooley went bankrupt, the Dean of St. Paul's had the communion set valuod by an expert, and having privately collected the sum paid the money over to Hooley's creditors. Hcoley was brought up in a small, hotel near Derby. I saw him once, and he struck me as somewhat unaccuscmed to a suit of black clothes which he was wearing. He had a. beard and whiskers, and a pair of eves that flashed as if they meant business. From personal acquaintance with Derby folic, I should :-ay they wero not proud of E. T. Hooley.—Yo'iiiv,, etc., S. G. COMPTON. . St. Mary's Vicarage, Levin.