OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1718, 8 January 1920, Page 5

OBITUARY.

SIR EDMUND BARTON, G.C.M.G

■ By EleeWo Telegrapb.—TW-teLtJ Australian-New Zealand On bL A.-ociation. 1 nu-i «• SYDNEY, Jan. 7. », Obituary: Sir Edmund Barton, G.C.M.G., '! Juc&ont°lb u- L I D -A iU - A - Senior Puisne I Judge of the High Court of Australia. Sir Edmund Barton's death was dra'different health for some time and was •recuperating at Hydro-Majestic at Medio w. He wont for a bath, which is always a lengthy process, and no alarm was ' telt till attempts to open the door failed and an entrance was gained throuch thi< window. After finishing his bath and dressing ln his pyjamas he had collapsed behind the door and di.d from heart f •'• pre. There hit uidosprcad tributes to the great legislator, pioneer fed-rutioi■'■•■■• and lawyer. N

Sir Edmund Barton, who?e death is thus announced, was a native of Sydney. Nrnv South Wales, and ~:> horn 'on r.Se 12rh January, 1819. . He ivus bus within a few days of completing his 71st year. Educat ed at the Model School, fort street, and at the Sydney Grammar School and Uni versity, his brilliant scholarship carried him from one success to another, as Lithgow scholar in 1866. Cooper scholar in 1367, University medallist for classics in 1868, in which year he took his B.A. degree, obtaining the M.A. degree two years later. Called to the Bar in 1871, he entered the New South Wales Parliament a* / .•Jiember for Sydney University in 1879, •:nd when the new Electoral Act abolished all special representation, he was elected is member for Wo'lington in 1880, and for East Sydney in 1882. Elected as Speaker if the Legislative Assembly the following rear, ho retained that office until 1887, "hen he was appoint"d as a member of the Legislative Council, having a seat in that Chamber until 1891, when he resigned to contest one of the East Sydney seats in the representative Chamber, to which he . vas again returned with the late Rt. Hon. George Houston Reid, as his colleague, ilthough he was politically opposed to that gentleman. He retired from Parliament in 1894, but accepted re-appointment to the Legislative Council in 1897, retiring to contest the Hastings-Macleay seat the following year. /He represented the Dibbs Government in the Legislative Council in 1889, and again from 1891 to 1893. He- succeeded Sir William Lyne as Leader of the Opposition in 1898. He was also a member of the Federal Convention at Sydney in 1891, and was one of the foremost statesmen working for the federation of the Australian colonies. He was made senior representative of New South Wales at the National Convention, which framed the Commonwealth Constitution, being chosen Leader of the Convention. He went to London in 1900 as the New South Wales delegate to facilitate the passage of the Commonwealth Constitution Bill through the Imperial Parliament, and on that occasion had the IjL.JJ. degree conferred upon him at Cambridge. He formed the first Commonwealth government, and held office as Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1901 until September 1903, when he resigned and was appointed to the first Federal Judiciary. More ot a scholar than a oolitician, he had no real relish for the hurlv-burly of political life and it was typical of the man that while as Prime Sinister he might have earned as his C i ff ht the Chief Justiceship of the HighCourt of Australia, he preferred to W Miit honour go to Sir Samuel Griffith. : 11 wnom Ik was so long and honourably iociated. The late Sir Edmund Barton -™ mnd- Privy Councillor in 1901, and for King ford's coronJon and the conference of Colonial frime if- ;J„. i„* IMB It was during that Ministers m SUii - " or M O Hon visit that he v.as made aG.C.MG, Hon V ni ,!„,r of Grays Inn, Hon. D.C.L., ux SS Hon \ >■ °f Edinburgh, the freei • v' i li'v beinc also conferred upon I |T °'onool his S2 w» the first Rhodes l;','',i.; • for \ '..'- South Wales.

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THE TOTALISATOR TAX. p,»r Press Association. -UTKTWNT*. Tin 8. The Auckland Racing Club's, summer and the Auckland Trotting: C.nb s summer meeting resulted in the' Govern: me"t fund? beint; increased by £30.584 lbs 4d tbo Auckland Racing Club contributing £22 008 0s 7d including £698 9s 4d amusement tax and the Trotting Club £8578 15s 9d.