OBITUARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10625, 30 November 1910, Page 4

OBITUARY.

, , HON R. OLIVER. '[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Piiess Association.) Received November 29, at 10.30 p.m. London, November 20. The death of the Hon. ' Richard Oliver, formerly of New Zealand, is -announced. . ;■-.

| ,"[Thb Hon. Richard' Oliver was born I in Cornwall in 1830, and after coming, to Duncdin was: senior .'member of the -hardware firm of Oliver and Ulph. He whs the founder of the New Zealand Hardware Company, and still retained a large interest in it. Iu IS7B he became a 'member of the House of Representatives, and in July of that year he was elected to fill the vacancy iu the representation of the city of Duncdin caused by the resignation of Mr Larnaeh." In-1879 he became Minister of Public Works in the Hall Ministry, and retained th'e" office till May, 1881. He w;as in the same Government without portfolio till April, 1882, when a recoiistrncfcfcra took place, and he was in the Whittaker Government as a member Of the Executive Council. A second reconstruction took place, and he then became Commissioner of Telegraphs and' Postmaster-General in the Atkinson Government. With the most of his colleagues ,be retired in_lßß4, and was nominated to the Upper House. For some years prior to his death he resided in England. Mr Oliver was the proprietor of the Corriedale Estate resumed somo years ago by the and another, venture jwhicli the Government took,off his liands.-Tjas tho railway line between Port Chalmers and Diyiodm, built iu conjunction i\ itli Mr G. Proudfoot.].