PERSONAL ITEMS.

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

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A Wellington. message reports the death of Mr Charles Stewart, aged 83 senior director of the . Stewart Timber and Hardware Company.

Mr A. L. Thompson/ veterinary surgeon, of Stratford, has accepted a position in the stock department at Wanganui, and will leave almost immediately to take up his new duties."

The death of Mr Evan R. Stanley, geologist \to the Papuan" Government is recorded in an Adelaide cable. He took a prominent part in exploring unknown territory in New Guinea.

The death of Dr George Downing Livemg 1S announced in a London cable. He was 97 years of age on December 21 last, and h£id an unbroken residence at Cambridge University of e -r arS ' started the first laboratory foi students at the university.

The death took place in the Tuapeka Hospital recently of Miss Jane Fowler an old resident of Lawrence. Miss Fowler was for two years mistress of the Weatherstone School, and subsequently of the. Lawrence District High behool for 37 years, retiring about 12 years ago. ■

The death is announced of Mr J. w. Hiitle*, formerly director of the Wellington Boys? Institute, aged 51 In March last Mr Butler, when returning with boys from a visit to Taranaki met with a motor accident and sustained severe injury to his spine." He passed away on Sunday after a lon* and painful illness.—Press Assn.

at N r>Tih! laS n 6611 r f ceived of tlie death, at Dalby, Queensland, of Mr James Nicholson, an old resident of Wellington, and formerly a partner in the firm of Mace and Nicholson, building 1 contiactors The late Mr Nicholson left

There passed away at the Thames Hospital' on Tuesday evening, Mr Thomas Kilgour, at the age of 85. The late Mr Kilgour, who was a very old and respected resident of Thames, arnved in Auckland with his parents on the ship Jane Gifford in 1842, and took up his residence at Oneliunga He went to Thames when the field opened, and had resided there ever since, holdbodieT any important seats on local

The death of Mr A. Henry Ravage Landor at Florence is reported in g a London cable. He was the first white man to reach both, sources of the great Brahmaputra river and establish their exact position. He . was also the first white man to settle the geological problem that no range higher than the Himalayas existed north of the Brahmatputra river in Tibet. He travelled very extensively in many parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and - South America, and wrote several books descriptive of his journeys. The deceased was a grandson of William Salvage Landor, the poet, ;

. Tl * e death occurred on Friday labt in the Wellington Hospital, off Lieutenant Ernest Denton, R.N.R., at the age of 52 years, a well-known marine engineer. He came out to New Zealand from Cheshire in 1901, returning a few^ years later. Ih 1908 he again came to the Dominion as engineering instructor at Christchurch Technical ►school. During the war Mr Denton supervised the., installation of Deisel machinery on H.M.S. Elizabeth, as well being engaged in operations on the Belgian coast. In 1917 he installed the Deisel machinery on H.M.S. Renown, and_ later he. was repatriated .to New Zealand, serving on several coastal vessels, and he left the s.s. Ripple just before she was lost with all .hands.

„ , Mr f. al 'y An ,n Burke, of Waverley, «ho died recently, was the relict of the late John Burke, of Kakaramea. She was born at sea 78 years ago, arriving in .New Zealand with her parents, the late John and Mrs ' Byrne, after a three months’ voyage. Her father who was attached to the Imperial lorces, was stationed at Wanganui \v;here she spent her girlhood days. At the age of 25 she married the late Mr John Burke, and took up.her residence on the farm at Kakaramea, her late husband being one of the first settlers there. On his death 14 years later the farm was disposed of with the exception of the homestead and 30 acres, where she lived and brought up her family. Fifteen years ago she retired to Waverley, where she Fad resided until a few weeks ago. She was a noble mother, setting a grand example to her family by her devotion and endurance, and always endeared herself to .all she came in contact with. The remaining members of her family are Messrs E. and C. Burke and ‘Miss Burke. \