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Evening Star, Issue 10741, 29 September 1898, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr Allan Macdonald, at one time M.H.R. for Poverty Bay, who mysteriously disappeared from a hotel in Melbourne some years since, and who has since been mourned as dead, was seen in another part of Australia recently, looking the picture of health. Mr H. N. Hiskens, formerly on the Christchurch * Press ’ reporting staff, who in the early part of the year formed one of a party of Canterbury young men who decided to test the' value of the Glondyke, has returned home. He votes the Yukon a complete failure. Mr Herbert 8. Harris, who died on the Wakatipu’s voyage to Sydney, was a wellknown butcher in Christchurch. For many years he carried on the business at the corner of Manchester and Armagh streets, previously conducted by Mr H. B. Lane, and sold out quite recently in order to visit England, At a farewell gathering of his friends on the 12th inst. {says the ‘ Press ’) he was presented with a purse of sovereigns, and his visit to England, as a practical butcher of many years’ standing, was looked forward to with much interest, as it was understood that he intended to look into the way in which the frozen meat trade in London—more particularly the retail trade —is conducted. He had taken passages in one of the > Orient liners for himself, wife, and child. ’ Mrs Harris is bringing tho body back to Christchurch for interment.