Mr. Henry Huggard Powell , Proprietor of the Wallacetown Hotel, was born on the 2nd of December, 1837, at Castle Island, near Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. He came to Queensland, in 1864, and landed at the Bluff in the same year. After working for three years and a-half on a station, Mr Powell settled at Wallacetown, and purchased his present hotel, which he has since conducted. Mr Powell was married, in 1864, to a daughter of Mr Thomas Johnston, of County Kerry, Ireland, and has, surviving, one son and three daughters.