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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6935, 26 October 1900, Page 3

PERSONAL.

+ TheHonH. Feldwick, M.L.C., MrH. G. Ell, M.H.R., and Mr E. G. Kerr were passengers for the soutih by this morning's express. News has been received in Wellington (says the "Post") that the health of the Hon John M'Kenzie has improved of late. He is now able to take a little walking exercise in his grounds at Shag Valley each day, and is feeling much better than he did a short time ago. The Wellington "Post" reports that Sir George Whitmore, one of whose arms was slightly paralysed, has much improved in health. He is still confined to his room, but hopes to be about again in a few days. ' Mr Malcolm Ross, well known in New Zealand literary circles, has been appointed SF Ze{ ™ an(i correspondent for the London " Times. Another New Zealander, Air E D. ? Hoben, represents the tr Times" in Australia. The Very Rev Dean Martin, the Rev J Pat«rson,.and the Hons Major Steward and R. H. J. Reeves arrived from Wellington by the s.s. Rotoiti this morning. Mr A. S. Clarkson, secretary to the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association, who has been on a visit to South Africa returned to New Zealand to-day. Mr Seffero, for mamy years .editor and manager of the "Taranaki Herald," and one of the oldest journalists in this colony, died this morning, aged seventy-one. He came out to Australia in 1851, and later to Auckland, . In 1868 he went to New Pl y - w Ollt M» S? XT contr ? lled *c ."Taranaki Herald" till November, 1895, when he retired, t v«r A i?? On & the arrivals by the Mcnowai at Wellington was Nurse Ross, late of Dunedin, who was four months stationed at No. 8 Hospital, Bloemfontein. Nurse Ross stated that the hospital was intended to accommodate 500 patients, but had from 1500 to 1700, the majority of the complaints' being The "Southland Times" reports the death ofan early settler of Southland, Mr Kobert Hargrea.ves, who passed away on Tuesday, m his seventy-eighth year He was identified with the railway System of bouthland— mdeed of the colony— frrmr its mceprion. He came out from England with Mr William Oonyers : u 1864 to erect the first locomotives that ran on the Bluff line an the pubhc service, that bring also the first railway in Nev Zealand. The fitting up of the engines being completed Mr Hargreaves was drafted into the Southland railway service, and became head of the Locomotive Department, a position that he held till some years after the lines were linked up from Bluff to Christchurch. Then he was engaged in the service of the New Zealand Railway Department for a short time, but practically retired mine years ago. Mr Joseph L. Wilson, of Kaiapoi, has resigned from the Commission, of the Peace.