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Obituary.. , A very old resident of Condah and a pioneer- of the district for over seventy years, Dir. Edmond Dwyer, died' at his.residence at Condah oar Friday night. last. For a man of his years-he was over 93-he retained his faculties till the last, while his memory was remarkably retentive His death removes a' link with the earl. days of contracting for road work in the IfPrtland" district, partic ularly that stretch of road between the seapol t and Hamilton. As a young man just past the twenties, he sailed for Australia in the ship Gen. eral HIewitt, arriving in Portland Bay ;in 1856. The General Hewitt, it might be stated, made one more trip, and was burnt to the- water's edge a year later. On the voyage to Aus. tralia. the year before, Mr. D)wyer had, as co-passenrers, Messrs. Itea. niey, father of Mlr. Wan. lleaney (now of- South Yurra, and other Innmembers of that family), Waters (whose son, Mr. W. Waters, is a resi dent of Ilamilton), Cannon and Roulston (well known names in the Condah district). Mr. Dwyevr was the last surviving member of a group of pioneers who landed at Portland from the saune vessel in the llld. fifties. Some of them were restless spirits, who wanted to' see more of the country of their adoption. A-. ongst these latter, Mr. Dwyer, pushed on, after it brief stay in Portland, to the gold diggings on the Fiery Creek (now Beaufort) area. lie was not enamoured of the place, and returned to the Portland district, wihere he commnenced, and continued for many years, as a road contractor for the Portland Road, Board, a body which controlled main roads between the most ilclportant centres before the constitution of the Local Government Act tested certain defined territories in shire councils. Mr. Dwyer's chief works were on the main road from Portland to Ifamilton. In --those ldays the ramifications of the road board covered a much larger area'than the present Portland Shcre,

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