OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2850, 28 October 1908, Page 23

OBITUARY.

HON. V. L. SOLOMON. ADELAIDE, October 20. The death of the Hon., V. L. Solomon, member of the Assembly, is announcedT . [The Hon. "Vaiben X.ouis Solomon was born in Adelaide in. 1853. He resided in the Northern Territory from 1873 till 1886, conducting -a mercantile business and editing the Northern Territory Times. He was om& of the firsfc membera returned to the House of Assembly of " South Australia for the Northern Territory in 1890. rafter it bad been declared a separate electorate, and he represented .the 'district until he was elected to the Federal Parliament in 1901. He Was "Government whip to the Playford Government, 1890-91, and to- the Downer Government in 1893, Leader of -the Opposition, and for a short time Premier andt Treasurer in 1899. He was a member of the Convention which 'framed the Commonwealth Constitution in 1897-98, and of the House of Representatives from 1901 till 1903.] BEY. CANON DODD, The death is announced this week of the Rev. Canon Thomas Francis Dodd, in his seventy-fourth year. The deceased gentleman was ordained a deacon in 1881 and, priest in 1882. He was occupied in th<? .East Coast mission in 1881-83 y and was vicar at Balcluthe from 1893 to 1903, when he became vicar of Taieri districts. He was mad« a canon of St. Paul's, Dunedin, in 1895.