DEATH OF SIR ALEXANDER STUART.

Otago Witness, Issue 1805, 25 June 1886, Page 9

DEATH OF SIR ALEXANDER STUART.

(Reuter's Telegrams.) London, June 16. Sir Alexander Stuart, ex-Premier of New South Wales, died to-day ; aged 61.

Sir Alexander Stuart was born in Edinburgh in 1825, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, proceeding afterwards to the Edinburgh University. In early life he entered into mercantile pursuits in Leith, Glasgow, and London. He then went to India, and in 1851 went to Sydney, entering the service of the Bank of New South Wales as assistant secretary. In 1855 he resigned his post in the bank in order to join in business the late Captain Towns, of the firm of Towns and Co., and was engaged in business in Otago for a short time. He entered public life in 1874 ns member for East Sydney in the Legislative Assembly, and in 187 6 became Treasurer in the Robertson Ministry for a few months. In 1882, on the defeat of the Parkes Government, he became Premier, which office he held until last year, when, after visiting this colony in search of healthy

he was seized with an apoplectic stroke while transacting business in the Government offices at Sydney. It was during his visit to New Zealand that his locum temws, the Hon. W. B. Dalley, adopted and carried out, with Mr Stuart's full approval, Sir E. Strickland's suggestion of sending a New South Wales contingent to the Soudan, in connection with the success of which Mr Stuart was made a K.C.M.G. On his retirement from the Premiership he was nominated a member of the Legislative Council, and appointed Executive Commissioner for New South Wales at the Indo-Colonial Exhibition, in which capacity he was labouring at the time of his death. Sir A. Stuarfc was a fair debatei', and a man of most amiable disposition and manners. He was a brother of the Bishop of Waiapu. (Special To Press Association.) London, June 16. Sir Alexander Stuart has been suffering from typhoid fever, and yesterday his medical attendant held out no hopes of his recovery.