PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 November 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr J. R. Corrigan returned to Wellington this morning. Mi* R. J. Linn, the well-known Jersey breeder, went through by train this .morning to attend the Royal Show at Palmerston North, where he will also meet members ‘of the Jersey Council at the conference during the show. The death is announced at Thames of Mr. Archibald Currie, aged 72. He W f nu° rn * n Rothsa y< Bute, and arrived at Thames forty years ago He leaves tour sons and two daughters. The friends of Miss Isabel F. Balk, Hawera. will be sorry to hear of the death m Dunedin on Sunday morning last of her sister, Mrs. Charles Havward, after a comparatively short iilness.' Miss Balk is at present in Dunedin, but will return on Saturday evening next. .Mr Chas. Zacharjah, district manager of the Public Trust Office, Wellington formerly in charge of the laranaki branches, and agent in charge of the West Coast Settlement Reserves, visited Hawera yesterday. 'Mr /aehariah has not been in Hawera for about 12 years, and he naturally commented on the great progress ' made here during that period.A h , 6 .took place at Te Aroha of Mrs. Caroline Castle Faville, widow of the late Mr. John T. Faville at the age of 82 years. * Both Mr. ’and Mrs. Faville arrived in Canterbury 64 ■'J®f rs , a £°’ a " d about 44 years later they left to live m the Waikato A family of four sons and four daughters survive her. There died at Masterton on Thursday afternoon Mrs. Katherine Tennent. , !’*■ Tennent was the daughter of the late_ Thomas Kesteven, who arrived m the Dominion with his wife and family m the year 1853, settling first at Akaroa, and later at Workingham OanlSu™ th * WWmal ‘” iri - North The death took place the other day ? Residence of her son-in-law/Mr Jessie Mcßae, who had been closely associated with the earlv days of the colonisation of New Zealand (reports the Dominion). Mrs. Mcßae was Mr n o n V ?r els(>^ in 184S * her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Aiken, and also her grandparents belonging to that “talwart band of colonists who arrived m the very earlv daws'' of .Nelson. She married Mi*. NoTic-miah Mcßae, third ! o n of Mr. George Mcßae, sheep farmer who with his wife and family arrived: in Nelson about 1842 and were afterwards the pioneers of Marlborough. After her marriage her home first at. Rliairioh (Awatere), then Benbqnoi (Wairau Valley), 'and-finally ? t Weld’s Hill, all three station!" beino then owned bv the Mcßaes After her husband’s death—he was accidentally drowned in thp Awatere Rliver in 1872—rhe removed to Nelson/ and there brought up her family. She was a woman of charming personality, owl made mnnv friends, and was always ready to help those in need or distress. Mrs. Mcßae made several tnufi to England' and abroad, but of late yea re lived quietly either in Nelson o>* Wellington. She was always mod vote reded in things of the day, and had also many reminiscences of the strenuous but happy days of the earlier life in New Zealand. She is survived bv her family of five, including Mrs. W. F. Ward and Mrs. J. P. Firth, of Wellington. Mr. G. W. McRae. of Waipukurou, Mr. W. Mcßae, of Auckland, and Mr. N. Mcßae, of Te Ivuiti, also by numerous grandchildren.