OBITUARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7852, 14 July 1911, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR -HAROLD STRANGE. Tly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. -LONDON, July 12. The death is reported of Mr Harold Strange, who was the principal witness in the Woolf Joel murder case, and -a member of the Jameson Reform Committee of 1895. Wolf Joel was shot at Johannesburg in 1893 by a man named Veltheim, who called upon him to demand money. Veltheim pleaded that he had acted in. selfdefence, and on. that ground was acquitted. He was, however, expelled from the Transvaal, which was then an independent Republic. He returned and was expelled a second time. Afterward he was tried in London, for an attempt to extort money from Solly Joel, Woolf Joel's brother, and was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. AN EX-PRESIDENT OF VICTORIA. (Received July 14, 0.50 rum.) MELBOURNE, July 13. The Hon. Allan McLean, formerly Premier of Victoria, and later joint Prime Minister of the Commonwealth with Sir G. H. Reid, died to-day, after a long illness. The Hon. Allan McLean was 71 years of age. having been born on Febraury 3rd, 1840, in Gippsland. Ho was member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Gippsland North from 18S0 to 1900. when ho resigned and entered the Federal Parliament. Ho was president of the Board of Land and Works. Commissioner of .Crown Lands and Survey, and Minister of Agriculture in IS9O and 1891, In the latter year he became Chief Secretary. He went out of office in 1893. but loined Sir George Turner’s Ministry, without portfolio, in 1894. He retired in 1898. hut next year became Premier and Chief Secretary, holding these offiees till 1900. In the Federal Parliament he was Minister for Trade and Customs in 1904 and 1905.