OBITUARY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 30

OBITUARY.

BARON M. DE IIIESCIL 'i'li:! death is announced of Enron Mum-ioo do i lirsoh, fatuous for ids pliilanihropy on beiiulf or tho Russian Jews and Lis c in all parts of tho v.-ori.l, and also fot Ids great wealth. Ho loft a fortune of twenty millions. M. LEON SAY. M. Leon Say, tho French statesman and authority on financial and economic questions, is do.id. MARQUIS OF RAT If. The death is announced of the Marquis of Ratio Viscount Weymouth, at present Conservative member lor the Frome Division of Somersetshire, succeeds to the title. Ants STUBBS. Mr* Stubbs, wife of Mr A. Stubbs, wel known in the hotel business on the West (jottst of the North Island, died at Aramoho last week, from cancer. E. OLE DUANE. Mr R. deplume, an old resident ot Christchurch, and a warm advocate ot temperance, died there last week.

Slit HENRY PARKES

Sir Henry L’arkes died at Sydney at 4.Hi) a.m. oii Monday, the immediate cause of death 1 joins failure of the heart’s action. The only persons present at the time of his death were his wife and Misses Parkes. At midnight a change for the worse set in, and the action of the heart weakened. Restoratives wore applied, and the venerable statesman rallied; but it was onlj temporarily, and ho gradually sank to a peaceful end. Towards the last he was unable to speak. Jib recognised bis wife, but none of the others at the bedside. His death, though not unexpected, has crook'd a profound impression in the city. In accordance with the expressed wish of hi nisei t and family, .Sir Henry Parkes is to Re buried privately at Faidconbridgo, jilue Mountains, beside his first wife (nee Mi;-s C. Varney).

The funeral was to take place on Wednes-

day. The Cabinet at a meeting regretfully acquiesced in tho wish of tho late Sir it. Parkes for a private funeral, and resolved to place on record its expression of deep regret at his death.

The Hon Mr Sodden has telegraphed expressing the sympathy of the New Zealand Government with Rady Parkes.

Some years igo £fiOO(> was subscribed by the public, of which Sir Henry Parkes received the interest. The amount will now bo divided, according to the terms of the trad, between the children of bis first marriage, consequently the children of the second marriage, and also the present Lady Parkes, are left unprovided for. Tho eldest of the former is twelve, and tho vouugest f hrec.

The London Times says the deceased was the most striking figure in the public life of Australasia, and helped in no ordinary degree to impress its English character on tlie community.

Ey tho death of Sir Henry Parkes, one of the most notable figures in the history of Australasian politics has passed away. The deceased statesman, who was the son of an agricultural labourer, was born in IMA, and emigrated to Sydney in 1S3I). In that city there still stands the oldfashioned shop where in those early days he sold toys. He entered Parliament in 1N.',!., when lie was conducting Empire, u daily newspaper of Sydney. His political career is part of colonial iiistm-y, particularly from bis advocacy of Federation and Frectrado. Sir Henry Parkes was thrice married—bis thirl wife, Miss Julia Lynch, was bis housekeeper, and be married her only a few months ago. At tin funeral of Mr F. A. Pemberton, at Cfhri bdmrcii, the liearso was followed by several mourning coaches and by a large number of students of Canterbury College in academic costume. There were many beautiful wreaths, among them emblems from tho Lincoln Agricultural College and the Canterbury College Students’ Association.