OBITUARY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 3

OBITUARY.

SIR WILLIAM LYNE

[Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] .:: . . _.<«■. : • (Received 9,50 a.m.), , , k . , Sydney, August 4. Sir William Lyne, aged 60. THE TELEGRAPH’S TRIBUTE. ; (Received 9.55 a.m.) Referring to the death of Sir William Lyne,. the Telegraph says; “His death' removes one of the most strenuous jvorkers and most popular personalities for whom politics ever provided a career. It is only men of unflagging energy and wide human sympathy,, .together, jujitli that, .peculiar capacity of anticipating what the majority of people think to-morrow, which makes it practicable for the - illi«TU bfri.,-. .' -- 1 , ■ politician to whym.it is given to survive the storm arid stress of such a number of yeaiA as Sir William Lyne loomed prominently in the public eye. At the end' of his political career he .was a poorer man than at the beginning. Men of his type never enrich themselves in politics.”