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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 302, 19 December 1914, Page 6

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Obituary; Archibald HosS Colquhoun, M.1.C.E., FJR.G.S. A London cablegram records the death of this famous traveller, who was boru off the Cape of Good Hope in March, 1848, having thus reached the age of 06. After receiving his education in Scotland, Mr Colquhoun was appointed to the Indian Public Works Department' in 1871, and was secretary and second in command of. the Government Mission to Siam aqd the Siamese Shan States in 18(9. He explored from Canton to Bhamo to trace the best route for connecting Burundi and China by railway for some months in 1881-2. As Times correspondent during the Franco-Chinese war and the whole for Hast, he had many experiences in 1883-4. He proposed the 'annexation, of Upper Buvmah, and visited Siam in connection with railway construction, being,, later, for.four years, Deputy-Commission, er in tipper Burmah. After accompanying the Pioneer Force to South Africa, he was appointed Administrator of Mashonoland in? 189 Q. He was invalided home in 1892, and re fired in 1894. But the spirit of travel %as still upon hjm, and a year later he visited, ! fejentral America to examiner the Nicaragua and Panama Carnal routes.. China; in. 1893; him in connection with negotiations for railways, and he travelled through Siberia, Eastern Mongolia .and China from north t 6 south in 1898-9. During' the next four he 1 travelled in the Pacific, Dutch East Indus, Borneo, Phillipines, Japan, returning via Siberia, then in the West Indies, Central America and .the United States. Deceased, who has been The Times’, correspondent in various parts, of the"world, issued several puhlica- , tipns on his tx-avels.