LATE LORD BALFOUR.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17975, 21 March 1930, Page 7

LATE LORD BALFOUR.

THE LAST HOURS

SOOTH-ED BY MUSIC

VALET’S TOUCHING TRIBUTE

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LONDON, March 19

Lord Balfour's last hours were soothed by the music of a piano and violin outside the door. Distinguished amateurs played the dying man’s favourite melodics from Bach and Beethoven, and particularly Handel s “ Largo.”

The late earl himself was a brilliant pianist. Often when he was Prime Minister and was unable to sleep at his official residence, No. 10, Downing Street, ho arose and played quietly through t-he dark hours. His last resting place at Whitlangehamc, in Haddlngstonshlre, Scotland, will be beside his mother’s grave, under a tall beech tree in a little wood. Mr 11. L. Slim son, United States Secretary of State, to-day paid a high tribute to Lord Balfour’s gi’eat contribution to the cause of naval disarmament at the Washington Conference. Air Lloyd George said : I had the deepest and warmest affection for Lord Balfour. We were associated at some of the most troublous times that ever befell the British Empire. No man could have had a more courageous or a nobler colleague In time of difficulty and stress.

But the most touching tribute was made by the dead carl's valet, James Coleman, who said : “He was the serenest man I ever saw. In 30 years association with him I never saw him ruffled. He never said an angry word, nor one that betrayed an unworthy thought.”