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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 60

Mr “Pete” Hughes (says a cablegram from Melbourne) is dead. Mr Hughes was one of the best-known theatrical agents and managers in the colonies, having been for more than twenty-two years a frequent visitor to the various centres on behalf of various attractions, mostly of renown- He represented the J. C. Williamson firm for several years. When last in Wellington—.as manager of the Van Biene Company, hut a few months ago—Mr Hughes was in very indifferent health, though he bore his suffering with that spirit of cheerfulness which had made him popular with all h© met. Soon after the wreck of the ELingamite at the Three Kings (in November, 1992), Mr Hughes organised a costume cricket match on the Wellington College green, in aid of the sufferers by tibat disaster. The Musgrove Company, which Mr Hughes was then representing, and the Pollard Opera Company, took up the project with enthusiasm, and it was an unqualified success. A very large sum of money was raised, and the credit was undoubtedly due in large measure to the initiative and energetic managerial skill of the late Mr Hughes.