LATE FRENCH PREMIER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 187, 12 August 1904, Page 2

LATE FRENCH PREMIER.

DEATH OF 11. WALDECI& ROUSSEAU. . ™ (Received August 12, 0.35 ilia.) PARIS, AugoiC'U. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, ti»'. v lit*, Premier, died after undergoing ag ty. ' oration for cancer. ' ' '■ Emllo Waldeck-Rousseau was born at .Nantes, December 2nd, 1846." His father was a prominent , poUi|tSan and lawyer, distinguished as f lumber of the constituent n—nulilii la 1840, and as one of the ohleJf ol he Moderate Liberal Party., In both directions hia son foUowftthla example. He was Maire of Nantes in. 1870, and aistipgMiahed ttmaelf during the war by Jbis court**. .«nd ewrgy,. He practised suctesetulb/7*t St. Naznire and at Bennes, wd afc eerwardt joined the Paris B*r, V)wra he soou attained a consWeraijle; and . lucrative practice, being> engaged in, among other causes celobres, the Panama case, inj which he was joAtn-r . sd lor M. de Lessens. Hie Pptfitr mintary career 'dates from 187», when he was returned lor Rennet and entered the Chamber of Deputies as e, Gamhettisu, Jit the .sowfrlived C*blnet of 1881-2 he filled the post ol Minister of the Interior, and held the same office again in the Ferry Administration' of 1888-5, when hi carried an important measure, on . trade unions. He; continued, to. rare-, ' «nt Howies until 1869, when ha settled In Paris as a barrister, and aras■'■'. elected Senator in 1891. In June, 1899. after the fail of M. Dupuy's Ministry, he responded to' a request • of President Lou bet that he siiquld torm a Ministry, anU successfully un- ' dertook the task, He restored something like stability to the French parliamentary system, and, held' 'oflico witrt conspicuous success till 'iW>2 when, after winning the general eU&» tlon, he resigned, considering:' 'lu> , work accomplished. He wasa/pow- I eriul speaker. ' : . ' , '