Massenet
JULES ÉMILE FRÉ- DÉRIC (mäs-nā'), a French composer; born in Montaud, France, May 12, 1842.
He won the "Prix "Prix de Rome" in 1863, was favorably received as the composer of meritorious orchestral works and a comic opera, "The Great Aunt" (1867), before the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1873 took his place among the foremost of the younger composers of France, his fame being established by the comic opera "Don Cæsar de Bazan" (1872), the classical opera "The Furies" (1873), and the oratorio "Mary Magdalen" (1873). - MASSINGER These were followed by the oratories "Eve" (1875) and "Virgin" (1879), the great operas "King of Lahore" (1877), "Herodiade" (1881); "Manon Lescaut" (1884); and "Esclairmonde" (1889); "Thais" (1894); "Le Jongleur de Notre- Dame" (1902) ; "Sapho" (1907) ; "Bacchus" (1908); "Roma" (1912); "Cléopâtre" (posthumus, 1914). He died in 1912.
Prime Minister of New Zealand and Minister of Lands and Labor since 1912.
Born at Limavady, Ireland, in 1856. Educated at public schools. Emigrated to New Zealand in 1870 and followed farming. Was early associated with local government as President of Agricultural Societies, Farmer Clubs. Represented Waitemata in the New Zealand Parliament, 1894. Member for Franklin, 1896. Leader of the Opposition, 1903. Held offices as Minister of Land, Labor, Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce. A representative of New Zealand at the Imperial War Cabinet and Conference in 1917-1918.