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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3581, 5 November 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

President Faure of Franco won Lis Cross of the Legion of Honour many years ago, long before lie became prominent in politics. It was in 1871, when Paris was in the murderous grip of the Commune, that Felix Faure, a young leather merchant of Havre, raised a company of volunteers in the seaport city and came to assist in rescuing the capital from the Revolutionists. During the three days when Paris was in flames he did such good service, at the repeated risk of his life, that the cross he still wears was his reward. Dr George MacDonald, who has spent the last twenty years at Bordighiera, is getting to feeble for work. “I am growing old, and it’s about time to be going home,” he wrote pathetically a short time ago to a friend in England. He loves to sit in his study watching the sun set over the blue bit’s and the glimpse of sea which forma his horizon ; and he is little less happy on the one afternoon in the week when his friends call to drink tea with him, and to sic at his feet while ha reads and expounds soma favourite poet.

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