BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AIR ASQUITH’S TRIBUTE. LONDON, Sep. 21. Mr. Asquith to-night made tho billowing statement. •‘Viscount Alorley’s death is not a tragedy, but it means the disappearance of the last survivor of a heroic age. He was my first political mentor, and, for upwards of thirty years, a wise counsellor, the host of comrades, and. in tho last years, an unfailing, di'toteil and rcveied friend. Only last week I had a letter from him which 1 shall always treasure. English literature and the great traditions of public life will he impoverished by bis loss. THE OBSEQUIES. LONDON, Sept. 21. The hotly of Lord Mnrley will ho cremated. The funeral lias been fixed at Colders Green for Thursday.
Mr. Llovd George telegraphed to Lady Mnrley:: “I lenrnl with deep regret of the death of your distinguished husband, and my old friend and colleague.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19230926.2.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1923, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
148BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1923, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in