OBITUARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 45, 26 August 1892, Page 19

OBITUARY.

(From our Wellington Correspondent.)

August 22nd, 1892. It is with feelings of deep regret that I have to record the death of Mr Daniel Ddaly, licensee of tbe Bailway Hotel Thorndon Quay, which took place early on Saturday morning, at the eaily age of 36 years. Tbe deatb nf Mr Dealy came aB a shock to the general public* who knew him to be 8 strong, robust man, and he was seen about town in the early part of the week, having attended the funeral of the wellknown Maori chief, Te Pene, on Tuesday at the Hutt. On returning from there be caogbt a chill, which confined him to his bed on "Wednesday, but Dr Oahill, who was called in to Bee him, did not consider that there was anything serious thi matter with him. He was much better on Friday afternoon, bat about midnight he took a change for the worse, and it was deemed necessary to send for his medical adviuer, but before Dr Cahill'a arrival he had expired. Mr Dealy wa9 a native ef Bantry, County Cork, and arrived in this Colony about 18 years ago, Bince when he has spent the greater part of his time in and around this city. He was for some time foreman in the employment of the corporation and afterwards joined the prison service, being stationed in Auckland, New Plymouth and Wellington. On leaving the prison service he took the Cricketer's Armß in the city, and after a year or two, became licensee of the Bail way Hotel', which he has managed for the last four years, in a manner which has won

for him the respect and esteem of all persons. The deceased leaves his mother in Ireland, and two brothers and two sisters in New Zealand to mourn his loss, one of the latter being a religious in the convent here, and his brother Mr J. Dealy is well-known in Dunedin, where he spent some years in the police force. The deceased, although never taking any very prominent part in matters political or religions, was a good citizen, a sterling Irishman and a practical Catholic. He was for many yean a prominent member of the Hibernian Society, in the working of which he took a deep interest, and of whioh he was at one time president. He was a man of genial disposition, upright, and kind, and always ready to assist a friend in need or respond to the call for funds to assist the cause of his native land. Tbe fnneral which took place this afternoon was a large and representative one, showing the respect in which the deceased was held by all persons irrespective of creed or class. Among the mourners were a large number of the Hibernian Society, of whom, as I said before, he was a very old member.— RJ % P.