PERSONAL NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 October 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

> Mr and Mrs T. Coltman are at present visiting Greyrnouth. ! Brother Arthur, of the Catholic Boys' School, left for Australia via Chvistchurch ■ yesterday morning, where he will, spend a short holiday with his parents before proceeding to his new transfer, Fiji. The many friends of Mr Richard Larkin member of the Grey County Council for the Nelson Creek Riding, will regret to learn that he is indisposed, and has been compelled to become an inmate of the Grevmouth Hospital. i\lr George Wells, Times Street, Reefton, received a wire from the Hon. James Allen stating that his son. Private Arthur Wells, had left Egypt for England. Tho death took place on Sunday morning at Westport of Mrs Joseph Armstrong, a native of Hokitika. and 45 years of age. The deceased is survived by a sorrowing husband and a family of two sons and two daughters. Mrs'Charles Nevin, of Reefton, a sister, proceeded to Westport on Sunday morning, but the' deceased had 'parsed away before she reached her. .!'■ The many friends of Mr Harrnwer, 1 manager at Reefton for Tymons and Co., will regret to hear that he has received a cable from Liverpool stating that his brother, Private Victor Tlarrowor. was killed in action in Flanders. The young soldier spent nine months in the firingline, and had just returned to the trenches again after a short holiday. An old mining pioneer, who followed the gold from Gabriel's Gully to Commanded namely, Mr John Cameron Eraser, died at the latter place on Wednesday last, at the advanced age of 80 years. Be. censed was born in Melvich. Scotland, and arrived in Dunedin in 1862. When gold was discovered at Gabriel's Gully ho sold out his interest at Molyneaux and went

to the field. With, some mates he built and navigated the first boat that went up the Molyneaux River with mining tools and provisions. Later Mr Fraser was at the Nevis Shotover, and other alluvial flats at Otago, and then joined the rush to Hokitika and Grev. Gold was discovered at Thames in 1867, and Mr Fraser reached the field the same year. Later he removed to Coromandel, where he took part in the development of sucti wellknown mines as the Tokatea, Royal Oak, in the early davs. and more recently the lona, Bunkers Hill. Old Hauraki, and other mines. Mr Eraser varied mining with sawmilling and general engineering. He was one of the founders and directors of the Coromandel School of Mines. Deceased is survived by two daughters-(Mrs A. F. Steed man and' Mrs E. P. Burgess) and three sons—Messrs Colin Fraser, M.Sc. (of Melbourne and Broken Hill), John Fraser (of Fiji), and Charles Fraser (of Coromandel).