FAMOUS AFRICAN
DEATH OF MR H. G. HULL FRIEND OF KING EDWARD CAPE TOWN, October 11. Mr H. C. Hull, the first Minister of Finance of the South African Dmon, and a great personal friend of the lata King Edward, is dead. Mr Hull was born in 1860. He became a solicitor, and was in practice ab Kimberley, the diamond field town, before the discovery of gold at Witwatersrnnd, Johannesburg, to which latter place he forthwith moved. One of tha members of the Reform Committee, ha was, in consequence of the Jamies-u Raid, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of £2,000. . , As a member of the South African Light Horse in the Boer War, Mr Hull was at the relief of Wepener. After the peace of Vcrccniging Mr Hull went into politics. He represented the Transvaal in the Convention which drafted the Union Constitution, and then went to England to watch tho passage of flic Bill through the British Parliament.
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Evening Star, Issue 21240, 22 October 1932, Page 18
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165FAMOUS AFRICAN Evening Star, Issue 21240, 22 October 1932, Page 18
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