OBITUARY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10293, 24 July 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

SIR PERCY BUNTING. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON. July 22. Sir Percy Bunting, M.A., editor of tho Contemporary Review s-inco 1882, aotat 75 years. (Sir Percy Buniting received his Knighthood in 1908. He was a son of Thomas Percivial Bunting, Manchester, and a grand Eon of the- late Rev. Dr Jabcz Bunting. He took his B.A. degree at Victoria, College, and his M.A. degree at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Deceased edited the Methodist Times from 1902 to 1907.)

MR W. C. STEADMAN. J | L LONDON, July 22, ■••■•Jfr-W: <3. Stoadman,"M.P., secretary of the Trades Union .Congress, at the age of 60 years'. ; J ■ (The late Mr. the ;;LaJ)GUf ! member' in the House of Commons for Finsbury since 1906, :?"d wa<? Ma<riis.traita -for 'the County of London since 1907. He was the son of a ishipwright, and was married in 1875: Mr Steadman was apprenticed to a harge builder 'in 1866, and worked at liis trade for six 'yeans.- .He had Ibeem a member of the Trade Society and Hearts of Oak Benefit Society for .the past 30 years. He was returned five times at the top of tho poll to represent Stepney on the London County Council. He was president of the Trades Union Congre&s in 1902, and secretary of the Parliamentary Coin.mittee of [the Trade Union Congress in 1905.)