OBITUARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7372, 21 November 1898, Page 3

OBITUARY.

[By Electric Telegbaps.—Copybight.] (PBB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Received November 21, at 8.50 a.m. London, November 20. Obituary—Earl Lathom, aetat 61. [The Rfc. Hon. Edward Bootle Wilbraham, Earl of Lathom, lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, was born at Blythe, Lancashire, on December 12, 1837. He succeeded his grandfather as the second Baron Skelmersdale on April 3,1854. After a course at Eton he went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was best known as a rowing man, and before he attained his majority he was Initiated into the mysteries of Freemasonry, and since 1874 filled the onerous post of D.G.M. of the Freemasons of England. In 1860 he married Lady Alice Villiers, second daughter of George, fourth Earl of Clarendon, K.G. He served as Conservative V 1 hip in the Lords, of which he was appointed Speaker iu 1832. From July, 1866, until 1868 he was a Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen. In 1874 he became Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard, and in 1880 he was made a Privy Councillor. He was in the same year created an Earl, and was appointed Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household in 1885.] Received November 21, at 0 12 p.m. Berlin, November 20 Herr Meier, founder of che North German Lloyds Shipping Company is dead. The Emperor of Germany has sent a letter of condolence. [Consul S. H. Meier, founder of the North German Lloyd, the Bremen Bank, and the Bremen Lifeboat Society, was in hi 3 85th year, and celebrated his golden wedding on August 14, 1884. Herr Meier was partly educated in England, and it was the sight of our great Transatlantic trade which suggested to him the patriotic thought of making his own native town into a kind of German Liverpool. The North German Lloyd, one of the greatest private shipping companies of the world, with its magnificent fleet, is his creation, and Bremen is naturally proud of the aged citizen who has been the chief agent in raising the old Free City to her present fame and prosperity. When he got a hint of the gigantic ovation which was to be made to him and his wife in celebration of their 50 years of married life, he begged to be released from the public honor on account of his great age, and escaped with his family into Harzburg. Hither, however, he was followed by deputations from the Senate of Bremen, the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, the North German Lloyd, and a whole series of mercantile and charitable societies. Prince Henry, as head of the German Navy, sent him his portrait and an autograph letter.]