PERSONAL.
Mr C. W. Kjerr, managing director of tho Dunedin .Star," died at Dunedin yesterday morning from pleurisy. Tho Mayor (i'Tr J. G. W. Ait ken) ox. poets to leave cn Friday for Dunedin, whore he will be present at the celebration of the unitm of the Presbyterian Churches. Mr Walter Delaney, who is now pc. titioning the Hotisi of Representatives for compensation . : or past military scr. vices, was the youlg’ost Volunteer who saw active service ir) Now Zealand. He was .serving as a to the left wing of tho First AVaikato" Militia at Opotiki in 1867, and in 1868 joined No. 8 div'« sion of the Armed ‘Constabulary, and took part in the riego of Ngatapa against To Kooti afte,' the Poverty Bay massacre. With Lieutenant • Colonel Porter ho saw further .service against Titokai/aru on the.; "V-j.st Coast, Sir George AVhitmoro being'- commander of tho forces. Mr Dclanoy was bom at Bendigo, Victoria, in 18)55, and came to New Zealand when lift a child, his father (the late Mr John DManey) being recruiting sergeant to xJ, cmtenant-Colc-nol Pitt.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4493, 22 October 1901, Page 5
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