DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM LYNE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1913, Page 7

DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM LYNE

A STRENUOUS WORKER. AND A POPULAR PERSONALITY. By Tele«r«ph.— Frew Association.— Copyright, (Received August 4, 9t50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Si* William Lyn« is dead; aged 69 years. The Daily Telegraph says that Sir William Lyne's death removes one of the most strenuous workers and most popular personalities for whom politics ever provided % career. "It is only men of unflagging energy and wide human sympathy, together with that peculiar capacity for anticipating what the majority of people will think tomorrow, which makes the practical politician to whom it is given to survive the storm and stress for such a number of years as Sir William Lyne did. He loomed prominently before the public eye. . . Sir William Lyne at the end of his political career was a poorer man than at the beginning. Men of his type never enrich themselves by politics." [The late Sir William Lyne was one of the best known figures in the public life of Australia. In Federal Administrations he held the portfolios of Home Affairs, Trade and Customs, and Treasurer. Sir William was for several years Premier of New South Wales. He entered the New South Wales Assembly in 1880. He was then a robust representative of country interests. By birth a Tasmanian, early in life he adventured into North Queensland, where his health gave way, and he was forced to return to the parental home. Soon, after, however, he pioneered through Victoria into ! New South Wales, and obtained an interest in a station. This led him to Parliament. His first portfolio was that of Minister for Works, his next the Secretaryship for Lands, and then, after a term in opposition, he attained the Premiership. He was commissioned to form the first Commonwealth Ministry, but was not successful. He became, however, Minister for Home Affaire, for Defence, and Customs, and finally w«« appointed Treasurer. At the last Federal olections Sir William, although in bad health, was a candidate for the Hume •eat, bnt was defeated. Sir ■ William was recently married a second time (his first marriage took place in 1870, hie wife dying in 1903) under somewhat romantic circumstances. He was sick at the time, and the announcement came ac a surprise to his family a 6 well as to the general public. The second Lady Lyne is a young woman.]