OBITUARY. AN EX-PREMIER OF VICTORIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 7

OBITUARY. AN EX-PREMIER OF VICTORIA.

By Telegraph.— Presa A«oointion.— Copyright. MELBOURNE, 26th February. Tho death is announced of Mr. Jcmes Mucro, ex-Premier of Victoria. The Hon. James Munro was born in Scotland in 1832, and began life as a printer. He was Premier of Victoria from November 1890 to February, 1892, ;> delegate to the Federation Convention of 1891., and sometime Agent-Gen-eral for tha colony of Victoria. Mr. Munro had been out of politics for a considerable timo prior to his death.

When Mr. J. Drummond was in Otaki the other day he saw a relic which gavo him brief meditation about the politics of other days. It was an old iron post on the mainland, about three chains in from high-water mark, between Waikanao and Paraparaumu. The memorial was rusted, and half-submerged in sand. This was a sad reminder of a droam which came into the head of Sir Julius Vogol. He contemplated putting everlasting telegraph poles — two* inch iron pipes — over the land, up and down New Zealand. A few went up, but before the scheme was matured tho policy was burst up, and the iron went out with other lost hopes. Near Waikanae tho poacher is preying upon native birds, according to information given to Mr. J. Drummond. H is hlalcd that indiscriminate shooting "dps on all the year round, and that the pukt'ko is the principal victim. Koine of (ho lesidenis liavn tried Ui discoura«o thf pot .hunters, but have not had much bucccbe.