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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2204, 17 July 1914, Page 7

, A tributo to tho lato Sir William Russell, former Leader of the Reform Party in the New Zealand Parliament, appeared in tlio aimuai'report of the Dominion Executive, read at the annual meeting of the Reform League, yesterday. "Sir William Russell, who w«'s called to tho Legislative Council last year, was, owing to ill-health, unable to take liis seat before August 8. It was hoped that he would then have been at the beginning of a new and useful Parliamentary career, which would have come as a fitting climax to his ionir public service. But it was ordered otherwise, and the honourable gentleman passed away on September 23, within a fewweeks of liis re-entry upon Parliamentary life. We feel it is only fitting the conference should place 011 record its appreciation of the honourable and distinguished career of the late' Sir William Russell and its high senses of tho long and valuable service rendered to the Dominion by that gentleman, as a former Minister of the Crown, a many years' member of the House of Representatives, and as a member of the Legislative .Council. It is fitting, moreover, that we should tender to his widow and family the assurance of our sincere sympathy with t'liem in their bereavement. Chivalrous in all things, the late Sir William Russell had many friends, oven amougst his political oppononts." The Hutt Rowling and Tennis Club hold their fourth annual concert at the Town Rail, Ixwpr Hutt, this evening. The proErraniiuc has been arranged by Mr, E. J. Hill. •