DEATH OF CANON HARE.
[BY TELEGR.Vra. PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
CiraiSTcnirßcn, Friday. The death is announced of Canon Francis Augustus Hare, M.A., chaplain of Christ's College Grammar School. Canon Hare was found dead outside his study this morning with a handkerchief pressed to his mouth. lie was last seen alive at 11.40 last night.
At the inquest to-day a verdict was recorded in accordance with the medical evidence, that the deceased died from shock, following on injuries received in an accidental fall.
Canon Hare came to New Zealand as private secretary to Sir James Fergusson in 1872, and in 1889 took up his duties as headmaster of Christ's College, which ho carried on till 1893. He was acting headmaster at the time of his death. His health had lately been affected by worry over school matters. He had long been a familiar figure on tho playing fields of Christchurch, being specially partial to cricket, and he was as popular outside the ranks of schoolboys as among the boys who had a generous warm regard for " the' parson." Canon Hare was never married. His relatives reside in Perth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 8
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