OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6936, 27 October 1900, Page 6

OBITUARY.

* SIMS fiEEVES. United Press Association — By Electrio Telegraph-r-Copyright. . LONDON, Oct. 26. Mr Sims Reeves, the famous tenor singer, ia dead, aged seventy-eight. DR JAMES IRVING. Dr James living, a medical man whose faco Ikis been familiar in Chrisichurch for twency years, died last evening. He complained a week ago of having had a chill whiio attending a patient, but seemed to have got over ri, and was in apparently good health yesterday, attending several of his patients. In the evening, finding an hour of leisure, he sat down in his armchair to read the papers. Those about him saw him faint, and medical aid was summoned, but' he never rallied, and about half past 1 nine' he passed away. Dr Irving was a Cumberland man, born in Gosfprth in 1836, and after a liberal educa-iion' he went, .to Edinburgh, where he took his M.D. degree in 1857. He practiced 'in Newark, Notts, till 1879, in which year he raine to Canterbury ' in the ship Crusader. Since then his history is familiar to Christchurch people. He was latferly well known as President of the Beautifying Association, and he ! \ bacn President of the New Zealand brancli of the British Medical Association. To volunteers he was kaown as .the Surgeon-Major of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles from their embodiment, and among florists he will be remembsred as President of the Chrysanthemum Society. Beekeepers will not readily forget the lectures and the advice ho gave them years ago, nor how much they owe to h ; jri for having prefsed Tipon their notice the advantages of the now hive and the way to extract honey. The doctor leaves a widow, six sons and five daughters, one of the sons being Dr W. Irving, who is now in nractice in the city.