OBITUARY.
SIR CLAUDE MACDONALD.
By Telegraph—Press Association (Received September 12. 310 p.m.) Loxdon", September 11. The Right Hon. Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald, the famous diplomat, is dead at the age of 63. • .-._*■
Sir Claude was British Envoy at Pekin during the Boxer rising :in 1900, and . was appointed by the foreign representatives to command tha legation quarter, for which he was created a military knight commander of the Order, of the Bath, and promoted colonel, m the reserve, receiving also a medal with two clasps. v .;; SIR WILLIAM VAN HORSE. By Telegraph Association— (Received September 12, 3.10 p.m.l * - Montreal, September 1L & Sir "William Cornelius van Horn*, a» general manager' and ex-chairman of directors of the Canadian Pacific Railroad) is dead, aged 72. , • ■?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16021, 13 September 1915, Page 6
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