OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1270, 27 October 1911, Page 6

OBITUARY.

o NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTER. Bj- Tclecntpta—Press Association—CopjrlEht (Kec. October 2G, 8.55 p.m.) Sydney, October 2G. Mr. Donald Macdonnell, Chief Secretary in the Now South Wales Ministry, is dead. Mr. Macdonnell had been il! for somo timo. His death is regretted as a great blow to the Labour movement. The Assembly met and adjourned today as a mark of respect. Members on both sides of the House expressed their d*cp regret at Mr. MacDonnell's death. The deceased Minister was generally considered ono of tho most popular, as well as one of tho most able, members of the Cabinet. Besides being Chief Secretary in tho Cabinet, ho was general secretary of tho Australian Workers' Union, tho biggest union in the Commonwealth. (Hoc. October 2G, 8.55 p.m.) Melbourne, October 20. The Federal Labour party caucus was [ sitting when it was informed of Mr. MacDonnell's death, and immediately adjourned. NEW ZEALAND'S FIUST LONDON AGENT. London, October 2G. J Mr. John Morrison, formerly agent in . London for tho New Zealand Government, . is dead. no left net personality of ' .C 87.000. Mr. Morrison acted as agent for the ' New Zealand Government in London before tho Agcnt-Gcncral's office, now tho ' nigh Commissioner's office, hid been cs- 1 tablishcd. He was appointed at some time in the early 'sixties. The "Cycl ipacdia of New Zealand" speaks of him cs I "a London merchant who had clients and a considerable intorvjt in the young colony." Accordig to i'i-O "Cyclopaedia" ho undertook the chi'ics of the Now Zea- ' land Government Agency, tu<l performed them for many years satisfactorily for the colony, \tid without K'mineralion, except for cost.s out i.f pocket. He had an nffieo in No. 3 Tblliday I'i.v.o. )\inir William Street, lan bn. The total expenditure., including the saline.-, of clerks, did not amount to lW) per iinnnr , -i though Mr. Morns.m <\v.vh for a large niiinivr of considerable contracts for the colony during thn iv.nny venrs he was its lombn agent, and froqiientlv made adi-:>>i('os of funds on wlialf of the colony." Mr. Mwison's appointment terminated in IfGO. when Dr. ,T. E. Voathonston and Mr. Dillon Bell ' went Home as ioint-Commissioncrs, to I represent the colony in London.