OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3867, 24 April 1928, Page 37

OBITUARY.

The death occurred on April 13, after a long illness, of Major William James Hardham, V.C., of Wellington. .Deceased, who was well known in Wellington Rugby football circles, was a member of the Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union. Major Hardham, whose photograph appears in our illustrated pages this week, was born in Wellington in 1876, the son the late Mr George Hardham. In 1916 he was married to Miss Parsonson, a daughter of the late Mr John Parsonson, Doncaster, England. He was educated at the Mount Cook School, and was captain of the Petone Rugby Football Club and also represented Wellington. He was a member of the Petone Senior Cricket Club. He was employed at the Government Workshops until 1914, and was manager of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association Club, 1920-1. He served in South Africa as a farriersergeant attached to the 4th and 9th Contingents in 1900-2. He was awarded the Queen’s Medal (five clasps), and tin Victoria Cross on January 28, 1901, for rescuing Trooper M'Crae, when wounded, under heavy fire at Naauwport. In the Great War he was major of the Main Body, Second Squadron, Wellington West Coast Mounted Rifles, and served in Egypt, Gallipoli, and Palestine. He was awarded the auxiliary forces 21 years’ service medal. He was invalided home, but later returned.

? el f, Kra P\^ ro1 ? Auckland announces the death of Mr James Buttle, aged 76 He was formerly general manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Mr David Martin MTntvre, one of the early pioneers, died in Christchurch on April 19 at the a"e of 93 years He arrived in Melbourne m 1860 ‘bv the ship Detuot, and was m Ballarat and Bendigo tn the wild days of the famous gold rush lie cams to Dunedin in 1861, and from here participated in the Gabriel’s Gully rush. After living tn Dunedin for some years, he joined in still another gold rush that to the Thames field He then became a member of the Auckland Stock Exrnange for 11 years, and was man-aging director of several companies; he also managed the Wahu and Black Angel Gold Mines. His partner for three years as a stock and sharebroker was Baron James de Ilirsch. of Austria. He made a trip to England and Scotland in 1879. and later joined the late Mr C. W. Jackson as a runholder in the Wyndham Valley, Southland, and resided there for 13 years. Mr MTntyre was a highly cultured man. gifted with a spirit of public service, and he served for many vears as chairman of school committees and local bodies in Otago and Southland. Mr J. D. Martin MTntyre. of Wellington, is a son of deceased. A well-known and respected identity, M. Jean Bouquet, nassed awav suddenly at his residence, Mount Cargill, on Wednesafternoon at the age of 66 years. M. Souquet was born at Erce Ariege, in the French Pyrenees, and at ; n early age, emigrated to America. From there, he went to Australia, where for s?me years he was a well-known figure in the circus world, and was considered, at the time, to have one of the finest troupes of trained horses in the country. Unfortunately, a mysterious disease attacked his horses, and they died off, one by one, until he was forced to disband the show. He _ came to New Zealand in 1896. and. taking up land on the slopes of Mount Cargill, established a successful farm which is well known to regular travellers -on the Main North road. He was the soul of hospitality, and his genial personality and. strict integrity won for him a host of friends. He is survived by his widow, six sons, and two daughters. The death of Mr John Bartholomew Callan, sen., at his residence, on Friday, removed from the ranks of the older generation of legal practitioners in the city one of the few surviving members. The late Mr Callan was born in Dublin in 1844, and at the age of 15 years came to Victoria, where, in 1862, he entered the civil service. He studied at the Melbourne University, and, after taking his B.A. and LL.B, degrees, was admittted as a member of the Victorian Bar in 1876. He then retired from the civil service, and in 1877 came to Dunedin, where he practised his profession until 1883, when he entered partnership with Mr J. M. Gallaway. He retired from active business in 1906, and a year later was elected as a member of the Legislative Council, on which he held a seat until 1914. The late Mr Callan was a keen volunteer, and during the war scare of 1885 he raised and commanded the Irish

Rifles, being promoted to the rank of major two years later. He was also lieutenant-colonel in command of the Otago Battalion from 1895 to 1896. He was elected to the Dunedin Licensing Committee in 1889, and served on that body until 1890, during which year he held the office of chairman. For some years he was president of the Otago Law Society, and was for a time speaker in the now defunct Dunedin Parliamentary Union. Some years ago lie was a prominent bowler, and was one of the founders of the Roslyn Club. Mr Callan's wife predeceased him by some years, and he is survived by one son (Mr J. B. Callan, senior partner in the firm of Messrs Callan and Gallaway, solicitors, of this city), and one daughter. The death of Mrs Jane Bain mains another gap in the ranks of the old identities of Waipahi. She was a sister of the Surveyor-general (Mr W. T. Neill), and came to New Zealand by the Christian M'Ausland in 1872. During employment on Mr Donald Reid’s farm she met her future husband, Mr James M. Bain, who was also employed there. They were married in 1874, and set up their home in Waipahi mong the first settlers there. She leaves a daughter (Mrs Alan Kane, Luggate) and two sons (William and James Bain, of Waipahi) to mourn their loss.