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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 256, 29 April 1912, Page 5

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1 j Mr and Mrs C. Ward have returned to Plymouth from a visit to Australia. Tt is understood that Inspector Wilson, of \\an.'faiiui. will proceed to Auckland to succeed Inspector Ctilleii, now Commissioner. In commemoration of his long and valuabla services as Mayor, the Timaru Borough Council on Saturday presented Mr. James Craigie, M.P./ and Mrs. I Craigie with handsome pieces of ailvce | plate as farewell gifts. I Tlie Hon. T. Mack enzie is expected to be in Otago during part of the first week of May. He will open the new post, office and the Coronation Park at lialclutha and will give an address at that town the same evening. Mr. Justin McCarthy, whose death was reported last week, was born in Cork on November 22, 1830. About sixty years ago he left his native city for England. He was on the staff of the Xorthern Daily Times, Liverpool, from 1852 to lfitiO. He was editor of the Morning Star when it was controlled by John Bright, and subsequently became j chief leader-writer on the Daily News. He was elected a member of Parliament for Longford County in ISTfI; Derry City, 1886-02; X. Longford, 18U2-1900. He was appointed chairman of the Irish Parliamentary party, which position he resigned in 189(i;' fle was a noted author, many of his novels, which were his earlier publications, attaining a fair amount of popularity. "A History of Our Own Times" may be regarded as his most the history up to the end of the late completing the sixth volume, bringing the historp up to the end of the late King's reign. His other works were: "A History of the Four Georges and William IV."; "Epoeh of Reform"; "Life of Sir Robert Peel"; "Life of Pope Leo XIII.'; "The Story of Mr. Gladstone's Life"; "The Reign of Queen Anne." As journalist, politician and historian, he has been one of the most conspicuous figures of our time. Like Lincoln or Garfield, Tang-Shao-Yi, the new Premier of the Chinese Re< public, is a self-made man. In the early nineties he was earning a precarious . living as a sort of clerk-interpreter, and many Europeans in China might remember his accepting email commissions for a few dollars. His rise B&s been meteoric. To-day he is the foremost living Chinaman after Yuan-Shi-Kai, who, in fact, 'discovered" him. Tang was a graduate of Columbia University, a eplendid linguist, and was almost more Western than Westerners themselves. His first appearance in public life was as "foreign secretary" to Yuan. In those days he used to go about in foreign clothes, wore foreign spectacles, occasionally carried a sporting gun, and even used to drive about in a dog-cart accompanied by a prize 'bulldog. These eccentricities dj*- • appeared, however, as he entered upon higher responsibilities. Tang is an ardent and successful reformer, as befits a Cantonese. It was Tang, a have all, who destroyed the opium evil, an achievement in itself perhaps unique in the history of ,the Government's anti-opium policy, and the author of the famous an ti-opium decree. During the revolution lie was Yuan's delegate at the Shanghai conference, and of late has arranged the joint loan which will set the new Republic on its feet. Ho knows Europe and America extremely well. He**, has been Ambassador in Washington, and in 1007 headed a mission to Europe to study 'the financial systems of the Powers.