Postmaster General, is dead from overwork, (The Right Hon. Henry Cecil Raikes, M.P., P.C,, was born at Liwyregrin, Flintshire, in 1838, and educated at Shrewsbury School, and "Trin. Coll, Cam. He was called to the Bar in 1863,.and sat asa Conservative for Chester from 1\868 to 1880. He then sat for Preston until Nov., 1882, when he was elected M.P. for Cambridge University, which he has continued to Means, and Deputy Speak: appointed Postmaster-General in Lord Salisbury's government in 1886. His death from overwork shows how badly the General Post Office is organised, thet the tliamentary head of it should be thus overwhelmed with details.—Ep.]
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