OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 18336, 25 July 1923, Page 5

OBITUARY

M. DUPUY. !e?s Association-—By Telegraph—-Copyright. PARIS, Jnly 24. The death is announced of AI. Daipuy, ho was five times Prime Minister of ranee.—A. and N.Z. Cable, pi. Dupny, who was seventy-two years f age, first entered the French Chamber f Deputies in 1885 as an Opportunist I ©publican, and in 1892 ho attained Minter ini rank in M. Piibot’s Cabinet. In ipril of the following year he formed Ministry himself, but he resigned at ho end of November, and on December 5 vas elected President of the Chamber. During his first week of office an anarchist I who had gained admission to the Chamber) throw a bomb at the President, and M. Dupuy’s collected bearing and his historic words, “ Messieurs, la seance continue,” gained him much credit. In May, 1894, he again became Prime Minister, and ho was by President Carnot’s side when the latter was stabbed to death at Lynns in June. He then became a candidate for the Presidency, but was defeated, and his Cabinet remained in office until January, 1895, and it was during this tern that Captain Drains was arrested and condemned. In November, 1898, M. Dupny formed another Cabinet ; but when the whole Court of Cassation decided in June, 1899, that there must be a new court martial for Captain Dreyfus, ho again resigned. He was elected senator for the Haute-Loiro in 1900, and had represented that department ever since.] 1 AIKS JULIET GEORGINA SHAW. 1 Many interesting memories cluster jrqnnd the name of this dear oM lady, (who died at her residence, Maori Hill, lon the 20th hist. She was bora, at Cork, Ireland, on November 30, 1852. When (but three years old her mother died, and 'she Inst her father nine years later. She was brought np by her sister, whose husband, Mr George Stokes, war, engineer for the construction of the Belfast-Cork Railway. Ladies Alary and Olivia Taylor, relatives of her mother, were amongst the first maids of honor at tho Court of ,Queen Victoria in 1857, and their brother, (Lord Beclive, was Lord of the Chamber. She came out to Geelong with her youngest sister, whoso husband, the Rev. Francis Hopkins (afterwards Archdeacon of Dublin), had been appointed to the incumbency of All Saints in the Victorian town. In 1861 she married Air Joseph L. Shaw, C.E., who was practising as an architect in Geelong from 1850 t? 1876, and in Dunedin from 1876 to 1890. Airs Shaw- took a keen interest in church and social work in Geelong, being associated with the ragged schools movement, secretary of the Female Refuge, and a visitor at the hospital. Her intimate friends included Air Charles Perry, the Per. If. 15. APCartney (the first Bishop of Melbourne), Bishop Patteson, and the father of the Rev. Graham H. Balfour. Airs Shaw came to Dunedin in January of 1879, and made her permanent residence at Maori Hill. She at once threw her energies into philanthropic work, becoming secretary of the Dunedin Female Refuge, and helping to found the Sixpenny Clothing Club, and in 1895 she accepted the charge of tho Rev. Peter Atilno’s children when it was deemed advisable to remove' them from the New Hebrides. That she wa-s a rare Bible student may be judged from tho fact that for fifty or sixty years she read it through thrice annually. She was one of tho oldest members of the Ataori Hill Presbyterian congregation, an active worker in the Sunday school almost up t-o her death, and was one of tho foundation members of . tho Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union. She was a woman of outstanding personality, and ndained her faculties unimpaired to tho last. iShcf leaves a fragrant memory and an example of practical and devotional Christianity. Her father, Air James Wherland, was said to bo descended from a >Seot of high rank, who fled for his ]i r e at the time of the Jacobite troubles. Her brother, Captain Died Wlhorland, sailed for fifty years out of Liveipool, his last ship being tho Galatea. Captain Greenstreet, la,to commodore of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s fleet, was his second officer in 1873.