A CENTENARIAN
DEATH IN HOSPITAL > v The death occurred at the Wellington Hospital yesterday morning of John McCahe' aged 100 . years a ncl nine months, a native °f Ireland. He fought with his regiment jin The Crimean campaign, also in. trie .Indian Mutiny, and finally he came to New Zealand with the Imperial Forces and fought through 'the Maori War. On leaving The Army lie settled in the Rangitikei district, where he worked as a farm labourer tor many years. -He came to. .Wellington about six years ago, and since then lived at tlie residence of his daughter, Mrs K. McGrath, Sage’s. A son was Killed in the Groat War. Up till quite recently Mr McCabe retained all his faculties unimpaired
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 552, 29 December 1925, Page 4
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