A SELF-MADE MAN.
Mr Mundella is a rare instance of a working man obtaining a prominent position in the Government of his ' country. The father of the Vice-Presi-dent of the Council was an Italian; his mother was English. He began life as a street shoeblaok, graduated as an apprentice in Nottingham factory, from being an ingenious foreman was accepted as partner. Mr Mundella is of course, self-educated, and it is in the highest degree honourable to him that he has made so much of his opportunities. In private life he is a good brother, and only recently he made a journey to Italy to discovt-r his grand mother, a search in which he was successful. The Vice-President is the earnest advocate of the education of the
people. When he was a boy he was expelled from his school for carrying a flag in a children's procession on the occasion of the passing of the first Reform Bill.-* 1 World.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3120, 3 April 1883, Page 2
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159A SELF-MADE MAN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3120, 3 April 1883, Page 2
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