EARL GREY DEAD

Grey River Argus, 3 September 1917, Page 3

EARL GREY DEAD

A NOTED IMEPRIALIST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 29 The death is announced. , of Earl Gri'vy formerly /GovcrnnrGeneral of Canada. ' . ; ■■- OTTAWA, August 29 .. /A» • resolution of- sympathy af-Eart Girey y s- death has been dispatched, 1 . by' the Canadian Goverrim.ent. It f is recognised that Earl ' Grey was a truo Imperialist and an, excellent GovernorGeneral. • •'.'"■'■

The lit. Hon. Albert George' Grey, 4th Earl (cr. 1805), P.G. I9OS>vG.C.B. 11)11 ; G.C.V.Q., 4908 ;. President of the "Boyal Caloiiial Institute and Chancellor of the Orficr of St. Michael- and h?t. George, Avas born in 1851,- and was a son of General/ the Hon. Charles jGrcy. He was educated at Harrow land Trinity College, Cambridge, where ho- was Senior in Law, and History Tripos, 1573. His iirst appearance in politics was in 1878, when/he- entered •t'iic House of Commons; but only to remain in it for a f ew xninuteli I ;:He and liis Conservative opponent polled., the same number of votes. As the- returning officer refused; to give a- castinp *ote, they both presented themselves at the table in the House and ; de,manded to bo^sworitvin as M.P. H^tfwoverj a scrutiny was : ordered, and the seat went to the Conservative. Two years, later Mr. Grey w,as elected without'any doubt. Then he was twentynine, a young man who had done well at Cambridge; who had married the great heiress Miss Holford, daughter of Mr. Eobert Holford,' M.P. V for Wfcstoubirt _and was heir to his uncle's peerage.

Old friends, old books, old songs, old wine, ; . . . . ■ Old-fahioned folks to these incline; But as a rule, apart from such.. .. Old-faShioued lads don't count for* much. : The old-time chemist made and sold Hie worthlesss dopes for cough and cold; • But sufferers now such trash tbjure Preferring Wood's Great Popper. / . mint "Onrn. . , ..-.-:.. •-...;■ Aiasr now soon have passed away The joys and hopes of yesterday 1 ' And vet it, doth console to know -;. Its -griefs and pangs, have passed, also. The colds and coughs which yestfcr- .,;_■ night j, :i \ .;.;■■. :■ .•.. _ -. <r .■ ). v, Pilled countless hearts with pain and fright, Have passed 'away— could not endure, ■ Opposed to Woods' Groat Peppermint I' Cure.