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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 7

; Thero died at - the Auckland - Hospital tliis week (says our Auckland .correspondent) a veteran of the famous Kcgiuicat, H>M. 58th.. I'oot. This was William llume, an inmate of tho Veterans' Home.! Ho joined ,'his' regiment at Dublin'in 1842, arriving hero with, his comrades in 1845. He figured-,in.' all: the engagements in thb. first, Stapri M'ar,' and, flually, on the completion bfvhi6,tertn/pf, ; service, Settled at Kaihuu, following; the occupation, of: a carpenter. In his regiment ho was placed In the Grenadier Company, as. lio .was'of gigantio height and Strength, and was accounted, as tho' handsomest man in the''regiment. iThbro are now remaining in tho Auckland district only seven.survivors of tho SBth Foot.' .;.':v :v i;