OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 13

OBITUARY

MR J. R. MURRAY Mr J. R. Murray, one of the earliesfi of the Rugby footballers of Otago, died at Seville, Victoria, on Christmas Day. Over fifty years ago he was one of the most prominent players of the Dunedin Club, a strong running wing threequarter, with a useful swerve, and he was a member of the Dunedin team that toured New Zealand in 1877 and went through without a loss. Onlv three members of that team are still alive, but its sterling performances are still discussed in Rugby circles. The late Mr Murray represented Otago for eight years, from 1878 to 1885, was captain of the provincial side in 18/9, 1884, and 1885 and was a member or the committee of the Otago Rugby Union when that body was formed m 1881. He was in the employ of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen for some time in Dunedin, and subsequently worked for the Phoenix Company. On shifting to Melbourne towards the ’nineties., he again entered the service of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen, with whom he remained for many years before establishing himself in business at Seville, He was a son of Mr R. KMurray, a confectioner in Dunedin m' the early days, and was married in Victoria to a Miss Berry, a sister of Lady Syme, whose death occurred last year* SIR WILLIAM MILLS MUNITIONS MANUFACTURER. Preis Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* - LONDON, January 8. The death is announced of Sir William Mills, proprietor of Mills Munitions Ltd., Birmingham. It was stated recently that instead of making a fortune from bombs he lost £30,000 over, their manufacture. [ln February, 1915, Sir William Mills invented the Mills hand grenade, used exclusively and successfully by the British and the other Allies throughout the war, and of which 75,000,000 were supplied.] • MR JOSEPH W. FORDNEY AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN. NEW YORK, January 8. (Received January 9, at 10 a.m.) A Saginaw (Michigan) message states that Mr Joseph Warren Fordney, aged seventy-eight, a member of the United States Congress for twenty-four years,, and co-author of the Fordney-M'Cum-ber tariff of 1921, died to-day of erysipelas.