DEATH OF SIR JOHN HALL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8848, 26 June 1907, Page 3

DEATH OF SIR JOHN HALL.

M r. ~ i»'" ' -Per Press Association. I ■ GHBisTcuur.cir, June 25. ■ - i Hall, ex-Premier of New £ea- ■ ; this afternoon. iff • John Hall was horn in Hull, ■ re i n 1821, ami landed m 9m on in 1852, and "became Resi- ■ agistratc -at . Christchurch. B ! hi} was Colonial’ Sbcretary B ox- ministry'. ' a member of B r ord 'Government ft o ™ } m> B of the Waterhouse Ministry B to 18T3, of the Atkinson stion in Ibh's and Premier B. -lony from 1879 to 1883. In |H ■ ring defeated the late Sn ftey, he became Premier, Bi mi fed in that office nnti Hj n he retired from tin H awing to ill-health, late: HB /ing , t the distinction o: B| -1. Ho laboured for man: B L,i s tiro enfranchisemen B H (Together with Oaptai: |B filffam)’’Russell, lie re |B Sis’ colony’s views on Am |B deration *at the first con

HH a in Victoria. Sir John IK*. -arliamcut for- nearly 40 ■ • Irihfc from political life in B. ■ ie citizens .of Christchurch ■ ” ”m as" Mayor for the ExB iwl though 14* health pronto' v frcuii active work his H ■ vospitality was the snhMB vxsai commendation. Ho ")ghtcr, Mrs J. Oracroft HB’ >ree hour, two of whom BH 1 . Canterbury and the ■B ■ -ater. ]