Strike Reports

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1917, Page 3

Strike Reports

(Received May 18, at 9.25 a,m.) London, May 17 The bus strike is unchanged. Many engineers have resumed, bnl , Liverpool balloted in favor cfcontinu iDg the Btrike. Some hundreds have struck at Not' tingham. On the other h nd Barrow and Sheffifcld.voted in favor of continuing

work. Manchester is largely returning, © Noted Lawyer uead. (Australia & N.Z. Gable Association) Washington, May 15 Mr Joseph H. Ohoate is dead. [Joseph Hodges Choate, the celebiated barrister, diplomat and orato-, WJB born in 1832 in Salem, Massachusetts He was educated at Harvard, ancT was admitted to the B»r in Massachusetts in 1855. He quickly made hiJ mark as a lawyer and was identified with many famous case?. He was president of the Naw York Constitutional Convention in 1894., and from 1899 to 1205 wbb United States Ambassador in Londo n , 'where he became very popular. In 1905 he was admitted as an Honorary Banchar of the Middle Temple. In 1907 he was tha United States delegate to the International Peace Conference, at the Hague. Mr Ohoate was a member of the original C immittee of Seventy, which in 1871 over threw the Tweed ring and expelled from the Bench its corrupt judges. Many universities in the United States, Canada' and Britain conferred honorary degrees on Mr Choate, He - published many works on historical and 1-gal subjects, iaclndiag lives of Abraham Lincoln aad Admiral Farragnot.)