OBITUARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18803, 5 March 1923, Page 5

OBITUARY.

HON. JOSEPH MARTIN. X'reso Association —By Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, March 2. (Received March 4, at 5.5 p.m.) The death of the Hbn. Joseph Martin, cx-Premier and ex-member of the Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Victoria. Legislatures, and also of the House of Commons, is announced. The cause of death was diabetes. —A. and N.Z. Cable. [The Hon. Mr Martin was born at Milton. Ontario, on September 24, 1£52. He followed the, legal profession, and became a barrister in Canada in 1882, later becoming a Canadian K.C. He was a member of the legislature in Manitoba from 1882 till 1892, and Attorney-General and Minister of Education from 1353 till 1891. He represented Winnipeg in the Dominion of Canada House of Representatives from 1893 till 1986, a.nd was a member of the British Columbian legislature from 1893 till 1903. In 1898 and 1899 be was Attorney-General mid Minister of Education in British Columbia, and in tho following year ho became Premier. Ho afterwards resided in England, and contested the South Warwickshire seat ns a Liberal in 1909. Prom 1910 till 1918 ho represented East St. Pancras in the House of Commons. While in Manitoba he took an rwtivc part against tho Canadian Pacific Railway Monopoly, and the abolition of French as (ho official language and of separate schools, and in favour of the introduction of tho Torrens system of land registry. He war. a strong free trader and an advocate of unrestricted reciprocity between tho United States and Canada.]