PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1930, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr J. Munn left this morning for Christchurch.

Mrs W. R. J. Smythe left this morning on a short visit to Invercargill.

Mrs J. Gray and Miss K. Murtha were passengers by this morning’s express, for Wellington and Wanganui, on holiday.

Lieutenant I. H. N. Keith, Assistant Instructor at the Auckland Aerodrome, has been appointed Chief Instructor to the New Plymouth Aero Club. —Press Assn.

Recent arrivals at the Albion Hotel include: Messrs L. F. Tanner, F. B. Thompson, H. Reason, J. F. Brooker (Wellington), E. N. Lowther, M. Grimes, W. S. Bendall (Christchurch), P. Williams (Weheka).

Miss M. Hewlett, who has been a member of the staff of Murray’s for the last five years, and has resigned in view of her approaching marriage, was presented with a travelling rug from Mr and Mrs F. Murray, and a bronze flower-bowl from the members of the staff.

Th© death took place this morning, dt the Grey Hospital, of Mrs Jane Gibbens, wife of Mr H. Gibbens, of Pieston Road, Greymouth. The deceased, who had been ill for some time, was 48 years of age, and leaves a family ot young daughters. The funeral will take place on Monday, leaving her late residence, Preston Road, at 3.30 p.m. for Karoro Cemetery.

The death took place this morning, at her residence at Maori Gully, of Mrs Susan Hogan, an old resident of the district. Deceased, who was aged 84, leaves, one son, Jack, a daughter (Mrs Cunningham, Greymouth), and a daughter at home. The funeral will take' place on Monday, leaving St. Patrick’s Church at 2 p.m. for Karoro Cemetery.

The death is announced from Blenheim of Elizabeth Rore, reported to be 107 years of age, and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand. She was the daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling brig Caroline, which frequented Cloudy Bay during the heyday of whale fisheries from 1821 until 1840. Blenkinsopp married a Maori, daughter of a local chieftain and purchased from Te Rauparaha the whole of the Wairau plains, the price being a spiked cannon, which is still preserved in Blenheim. Te Rauparaha repudiated the bargain, and the incident had a direct bearing on thfe Wairau massacre of 1843, which was the beginning of the wars between the Maori and pakeha. Mrs. Rore, despite her great age, retained her faculties until recently, when she met with an accident, in which she sustained a broken leg. Sinc,e then, she has been in Wairau Hospital. Alfred Rore, the well-known horse owner and trainer, is her son. —Press Assn.,