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Evening Star, Issue 17720, 22 July 1921, Page 6

PERSONAL

A Hokitika message announces the death of Mr Joseph Mandl, brewer, aged eightyfive years. He was a well-known paulic man, and Mayor of Hokitika several times in the nineties. Deceased suffered a long illness.

ino Otago High Schools Board of CJovernors, at its ' meeting yesterday, decided to tender its congratulations to the lion. D. T. Fleming and, Mr F. H. Campbell upon their re-election to the Council of Education.

Another Crimean veteran, Mr John William Graham, has died ; aged eighty-seven years. At twenty years of age the late Air Graham enlisted, and was despatched to the Crimea, where he saw service with the 65th Regiment. After the evacuation ho returned to London, and later came out to New Zealand with his .regiment, landing in the Dominion in 1862. As a noncommissioned officer he took part in engagements with the Maoris. On receiving his discharge he went to Gabriel’s Gully, where the great gold rush set iu._ Later he went to the West Coast diggings. While in that district he was the first person to burn coal from the old Brunner mine. Tiring of the quest for the precious yellow metal, lie decided to join the New Zealand Constabulary, and was stationed in the Nelson district. Later he, was transferred to Napier, where he lived until his retirement from the force. A Wellington telegram records the death of 'Mr R. L. Mestayor, civil engineer, aged sixty-eight years.