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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3733, 18 December 1906, Page 4

An old Maori war veteran passed away at Wanganui Hospital on Wednesday evening in the person of Mr James Connell, who arrived at Wanganui early in the forties. He fought through the Maori war with the xßth Royal Irish Regiment. News of the death of Dr. MacGregor, Inspector of Hospitals and Asylums in this colony since 1886, will be received with the deepest regret by a very large circle of friends and relations. The deceased gentleman, who was sixty-three years of age, had been in failing health for about two years, and he succumbed to diabetic coma at nine o’clock on Sunday morning at his residence, Northland, Wellington. WhileJ Admiral Dubassoff, formerly Governor of Moscow, was walking in the Taurida Gardens, St. Petersburg, two men fired revolvers and threw two bombs, wounding Dubassoff, Both were arrested. This is the second attempt to assassinate Dubassoff this year. The Het Volk Congress at Pretoria unanimously decided to adopt the new Constitution for the Transvaal, which it considers an improvement on that introduced by the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, but not a full measure of selfgovernment. In the Reefton Magistrate’s court, yesterday, a man was fined £5 and costs, or a month’s imprisonment, for assaulting a Chinaman. He entered the shop of the latter, and without provocation threw sevenlfour and one pound weights at the proprietor following this up by breaking a door. The Magistrate (Mr Kendrick) said this sort of thing must be put down. The Hon. Hugh Gourley, a well-known citizen of Dunedin died at that town on Sunday. Mr Gourley was a member of the Legislative Council from 1889 until June of this year, when his teira of appointment expired. He was connected with the local politics of Dunedin for many years as a member of the City Council and bodies. On two occasions he was Mayor of the city, and was also chairman of the Harbour Board. Mr Gourley was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1825 and 27 years later landed in Victoria where he spent a considerable time on the diggings. He settled in Dunedin in the early sixties, commencing in business as a saddler.