OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 264, 9 November 1901, Page 3

OBITUARY.

LI HUNG CHANG. PKR TBESS ASSOCIATION Shanghai, November 7. Li Hung Chang is dead, from ulceration of the stomach. His refusal to abstain from business hastened his end. The family introduced native doctors, tbe Europeans withdrawing. |Xi Hung Chang, Prime Minister of China, was bern in -the Anu-Hei province, on February 16th. 1823. In 1860 he co operated with General (then Colonel) Gordon in suppressing the Taeping rebellion, bning at the time Governor of Thiang-Sin province. The other Thiaog province being added to his rule, be was created Viceroy of i the united countries in May, 1865. In the following year he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, Viceroy of Hong-Kuang in 1867, and a Grand Chancellor in 1868. After the Tientsin ma3sa?re in 1870, he was dispoiled of Lis titles, and otherwise punished, on tbe charge of not assisting tbe general in command, but in 1872 the then Emporor restored him to favour and the office of Grand Chancellor. Later, he became Viceroy of the metropolitan provinces of Pe-Ohih Li, and as such was the actual ruler or chief administrator of the Empire. He was .Senior Grand Secretary, the highest distinction to which a Chinese official can aspire. He was of liberal ideis, and,-as a member of the Board of Admiralty, originated the Chinese Navy. He had supreme charge of the forces, naval and military, during the war with Japan, avi negotiated the treaty of peace. Disgraced on several occasions, he always gut bick to power, and was in favour at the time of his death. He was an exceptionally wily statesman, and had great knowledge. Liberal in his views, he was somewhat friendly to Europeans—particularly to Russians. | London, November 7. Tbe death is announced of Me Reginald Culme Seymour, who stroked the Oxford boat race.