THE LATE SIR BARTLE FRERE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2486, 7 June 1884, Page 2

THE LATE SIR BARTLE FRERE.

Sir Bartle Frere, whose fuueral took place at St, Paul's Cathedral, London, on the 30th ult., was distinguished for many acts of useful public service to his country, and hence the more than ordinary attendance and.impressiveness of- the ceremony at his funeral, which Renter, after a few days' reflection* thought well to cable yesterday afternoon. " Men of the Time" gives the following-epitome of his career:

i Frere, the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Edward, G.C.B-, G.C.5.1., fifth son of the late Edward Frere, Esq., and nephew of the well-known scholar, wit, and diplomast, tbjQate* Right Hon: John HookhsmFrere, M.P., was" 5 born in 1815, and_having "received his early education at'King Edward the Sixth's grammar-school at Bath, he was sent to Haileybury College. In 1834 he entered the India Civil Service, and after holding some revenue appointment, became in 1842 secretary to Sir George Arthur, the then Governor of Bombay. He was appointed in 1856 British Resident in Scinde, and Chief Commissioner there in 1860. For his services during the Indian mutiny he was created a E.C.B. (civil division) in 1858, and twice received the thanks of Parliament. In March 1862 he was nominated Governor of Bombay, from whence he returned to England early in 1867, when he was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of India, and was nominated a member of her Majesty's Indian Council at Home. In the same year he received from the University of-Oxford the honorary degree of D.C;L'. Sir Bartle Frere also became vice-president of the Royal Geographical Society. In October 1872 he was appointed by the British Government a special commissioner to proceed to East Africa to inquire into the slave trade. Sir Bartle Frere, with his suite, arrived at Zanzibar in the Enchantress, March 12, in May he procured the signiug'of a.>treaty by the Sultan of Zanzibar abolishing that traffic. On his return to England he was sworn a member of the Privy Council; created an honorary LL.D. of the University of Cambridge; and on July 16, 1874, he was presented with the freedom of the City of London, in a gold box t 'of the value of 100 guineas, for his successful exertions in East Africa. Subsequently he visited India in the suite of the Prince of Wales, and in January 1877 he was appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and her Majesty's High Commissioner for the settlement of Native affairs in South Africa. Here, after personally risking his life to, if possible, avert war, he conducted to a successful conclusion, in spite of the most arduous difficulties, the Kaffir war of 1877-78, in which the troops were commanded by General Cunynghame and General Thesiger (afterwards Lord Chelmsford) and repelled an invasion of Natal by Cetewayo by the Zulu war of 1878-9, which terminated, in the victory of Ulundi. He subsequently a second time risked his life to avert a war with the Dutch Boers in the Transvaal, in which effort he was entirely successful. He was recalled to England three months after the advent to office of Mr Gladstone. He has written several works, and leaves a soon and four-daughters.