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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 15

The death is announced at Aigburth, Liverpool, of Mr; W. Beckot Hill, .prominently identified with the Allan Line. Mr. Hill, had been in failing health for'some time, though, tho end camo somewhat suddenly. He was the first, for Atlantic purposes, to utilise ;, the turbine for. the • propulsion of Allan, steamers, and was keenly sensitive to every improve: mcnt to populariso American travel. Ho was born at Lancaster sixty-nine years, ago, and fat an early age, started as junior olork in what waß then called the White Star Line of Australian Sailing ships; which at the timo ovned some of the finest clipper ships running to tho Antipodes from Liverpool. In 1867 Mr.. Hill formed the Allan lino, and with singular energy thfew himself into the Canadian. business, v From freight olerk',_ho worked his way upwards to a partnership; from 1883 controlled the London agency, and, some few years later, became manager also of tho Liverpool business. Under his guidanco the work concentrated at London,, Liverpool, and Glasgow developed, and this ;result- was seen in- the .Allan Line taking the .premior ■position' for - freights and passengers ■ to the Dominion. -Mr. Hill was instrumental in settling tho great dock strike in 1890. ;" The/first duty of.the dominant race is that of the maintenance of order. Wo Should be unfaithful to our trust if we permitted India to lapse into the condition of murderous anarchy which many disaffected persons iii that country seem now so anxious to produce.— "The Times.''