Mr. Robert Wentworth Wade , who was Mayor of Hokitika in the year 1893–94, was at one time partner in the firm of Learmonth and Wade. He was well known as an auctioneer, and as deputy official assignee for Westland, and had been previously connected with the Bank of New South Wales as ledger-keeper at Hokitika. Mr. Wade died at Capetown, shortly after his arrival in South Africa, in the year 1903.