PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 October 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Captain and , Mrs ‘Searle, in coni, maud of the local cprps of the Salvat tion Army, left for Auckland this morning on furlough. They will be; away for a fortnight. , l Sir William Maxwell, who is 83, whs i married at Rothesay, Bute, in Septem-! her /to Miss Mary Emily sis- 1 tef of Lieut; H. R. Bowers, who died ■ in .Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic Ex- i pedition. This was his third marriage. ; Sin William, who was knighted in 1919, ! was for 28 years president of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, and also acted as president of the International Co-operative Alliance. The death occurred recently at her residence, Waleria, Whiting Street, Gore Hill, Sydney, of Mrs. Charlotte Kendall, relict of the late Henry Kendall, Australian poet, at the age of 75 years. Mrs. Kendall was the daughter of the late Dr. John Rutter, of Macquarie Street,. and was born on the site of the old Australian Club in that street. She was married to the late Mr. Kendall in 1868. Henry Kendall died in 1882.. Mrs. Kendall is survived by five children, the eldest of whom, Mr. Fretlerick Clarence Kendall, edited the last edition of his father’s works, which was published last year. Mr James R. Mitchell, whose death occurred at Balclutha last Tuesday, in his eightieth year, was bom at Sale, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand in 1863 with his parents in the ship Thomas Edward Mileage, landing at. the Bluff. His father /had " come out under engagement to the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, took over the management of Clydevale estate, the property of the company, and continued in that position for 35 years, until it was sold to a Cantei-bury syndicate for cutting-up purposes. Six years previously Mr Mitchell had purchased a 2000-acre block of the estate, which he named Lambourne, and bn relinquishing -the management of Clydevale he settled at Lambourne. Fifteen years later he retired. and went to Balclutha to reside, handing over the management of Lambourne to his sons. Mr Mitchell had a fine record of service on local bodies, having been fory24 years a member of the Clutha Couaty Council, including several terms as chairman, retiring in 1914. Early on Tuesday morning there passed away at hfe residence in Lower Hurt Mr John McDonnell, a retired police officer, who had resided at the Hutt for the past' fix years. The late Mr McDonnell, who was aged 70, was born at Panmtire, Auckland, in. 1854, and joined the Armed - Constabulary in 1877 at Auckland. He was one of the picked men sent to' Parihaka to effect the capture of Te Whiti. After the Armed Constabulary ,vas disbanded the late Mr McDonnell ‘ pined the police force, and was statnned for some years on the West Ccast of the South Island. He was gaohr at Denniston during the 1890 strife, and in 1907 was appointed gaoler, and probation officer at Nelson, from which positions he retired in 1918. He was one of the old school of policemei, and took a paternal interest in th< young people who came under his ehaige. His kindly advice helped many hack to the paths of rectitude. He's survived by a wife, a married daughter and three grown-up sons.