Rivals of Stout and Bryce.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 49, 4 October 1887, Page 2

Rivals of Stout and Bryce.

Mr Geouge Hutchinson, the newly elected member who has defeated Mr Bryce, is a solicitor practising in Wan gaiiui. He was born in Scotland and educated partly there and partly in Ireland, and brought to the colony in 1865. After studying law for some time, he took a one session course at Otago University, and was admitted barrister in 1872, ' He started business at Wanganui that year with Mr Denniston, now of Dunedin. He first turned his attention to politics in 1881, when he addressed the Waitotara electors, but withdrew, in favoiir of Mr Bryce, of whose Parihaka policy he approved. He contested Egmont then with Major Atkinson, but was defeated and iu 1884 Mr Ballance beat him in Wanganui. The present is his third attempt to enter Parliament. Hb is a supporter of the present Government on the general lines of their policy, but in education he would raise the school age and stop free education at the Fourth Standard. He is a proteclionist, and believes in Mr Ballance’s land settlement scheme) is a fluent speaker, and will make an active and hard workingmember. Hehas takeii considerable interest in Volunteering) and is now Adj utant to the West Coast (N. 1) B attalion

James Allen, who defeated the Premier, was born on February 10th, 1855, in Australia, aiid came to New Zealand about 1858. ,He was taken to England in IsGl to be educated, and was placed at a private school in 1862, and remained there till 1869, when he was sent to Clifton College, where he remained till 1874. While at Clifton, he gained a scholarship or exhibition, tenable for three years at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He proceeded to Cambridge in 1874, and took an honor B.A. degree in 1877. He represented his University for two years in the annual inter-University football match, rowed twice in the trial eights for the University, and was first captain of his own College boat at the Club. He left College in 1,877, and returned at once to New Zealand. From 1877 to 1883 he resided in Dunedin. During three years of that time he represented Leith Ward in the City Cduncll. For several years he was a member of the Anglican Church Synod, and for two years occupied the position as Lay Secretary to the Synod. About 1882 he began to take an intrestin mining aud mineralogy, and attended Froffessbßs Ulrich's bourse of lectures. He went toEngland in 1883, and continued hisstudiesatthe Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, where he passed the examination in metallurgy equal to the first in the first clkss, and received the Bessemer medal. Passed the following year also first in first class inthe geology course, receiving the Sir Roderick Murchison medal. He returned to the Colony last year. Mr Allen has always taken a great interest in athletic and outdoor sports, and captained to victory the Otago football team against New South Wales in 1883, and the interprovincial team against Canterbury.