OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17705, 4 February 1918, Page 4

OBITUARY.

COLONEL HUME.

[Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, February 2.

Colonel Arthur Hume, formerly Inspector of Prisons and Commissionef of Police, died to-day, aged seventyseven.

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Hume was horn in the city of Dublin in 18*10, and educated at Cheltenham College, Gloucester. He entered tho Imperial Army in 1859 in tho 79th Highlanders as an ensign. He accompanied his regiment to India, where ho served till 1871, and then returned to England, obtaining the rank of captain in 1874. For three years Captain Humo carried out his duties as an •officer of tho Army. In 1874 lie was appointed Deputy-Governor of Millbank Prison, London, and there lie gained his first experience of the management- of prisons. After twelve months hp was transferred to Dartmoor Prison in the same capacity, where he remained- for three years- He was, afterwards Deputy-Governor of Portland Prison for a like period, and at the close of this term lie was promoted to lu Governor of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London. It was while holding this position that Captain Hume accepted the appointment of Inspector of Prisons for New’ Zealand, he being selected by Sir Julius Vogel, who was then Agent-General for the Colony. Coming to Wellington in 1880, Captain Hume took up his duties as Inspector of Prisons; in 188 S he became LieutenantColonel in the New Zealand Militia, and was appointed Inspector of Volunteers, which' position he held till 1890, when he was promoted to he Commissioner of Police and Under-Secretary for Defence, the duties of which latter office Colonel Hume performed till 1595. In 1864 Colonel Hume was married to Aliss Alacintire, daughter of the Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals at Murray, in tlie Punjaub.

JOHN L. SULLIVAN. ! By Telegraph—Prcee Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 3, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 1. « The death of John L. Sullivan Is an- j nounced. (Sullivan, whoso career in the ring dates back to the seventies, was probably the first American claimant to the title of heavyweight champion of the world who received any wide acknowledgment of his right, though in some quarters his refusal to meet certain pugilists was regarded as a renunciation of the championship. He held the American championship from 1880 until 1892, when he was defeated at Ngw Orleans by the more scientific pugilist, James J*. Corbett, from whom the heavyweight championship of the modern prize ring may bo said to descend. Corbett was defeated in 1897 by Fitz- ; simmous. Sullivan retired after his [ dofou-t gntf returned to the stage). I