OBITUARY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 6

OBITUARY.

LORD FORREST

(Received. Sept. 4, 10.20 p.m.) WisSfccurne, So]>t. 4

Lord Forrest died

zi Sierra Leone

Lord l^oiTest, bettor lcnov/n as Sir John Forrest, having been raiser] to the

peerage recently, was burn in. Western Austral 1!:!-in 1847, and on leaviu^ school entered the Surve\' Dcparti'K-r.t. Ho

conducted many important surveys and! oxploru lions, and commanded an expe-! <lition into the interior in search of Dr.; LcicLhsivclfin-1869. Ho afterwards filled! high -departmental offices, inei;iding: that of Surveyor-General and Coramis•■ioner of Crown Lands i'or Western A I"1' i viih t i •/ ■ n tin r\t uti t nn L 'slati'e Coii" f}^ n o was tie ?u ' P ™ vo' jf "\, ost< •v'<>h il i o • tfic c i'is' no"i (' v- on ih o\einjnt'ii, '»oMin^ officf 1 om 1S( 0 tv 190 L tl< •• "«i >n ihlc toi "-e^cj^l rat nacio'm! iMele til l'ta1' auiina Mi nc'^iim - ii.v'o 1 lie on oio! il.o Irfdfi I Pa'iian it mi 190' ancl he'd »ioo' poii,--lolios \~ linrv ip i'H las 'ocuojnenc oajl\ this jear.