PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 276, 10 November 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. T. H. Lowry, who hits for the past J 5 years been a director of the Hawke’s Bay and North British Freezing Company has resigned from the directorate. H. G. Denham, studentof Canterbury College and subsequently attached to the Liverpool University, has been apointed lecturer in chemistry at the Brisbane University. Very Rev. Dean Rcgnault. S.M., Provincial of the Marist Order, and a number of the clergy who have been attending the opening ceremonies at the Meanee Seminary, left for the south this morning.

The interment of the late Dlr. John Massey, father of Mr. XV. F. Massey (Leader of the Opposit'on) took place on Tuesday afternoon at the Mangere Presbyterian cemetery. The cortege was a long one, and included a large number of friends, of the deceased, and of Mr. Ma-.-'), who received a large numb t ««f messages of condolence from .■>*’ parts cf the Dominion. The death of Mr. Samuel Meggitt Mackley, father of the West Coast, is announced at Greymouth. lit? was a native of Leeds. He arrived in Nelson in 1854. came to the XX r est Coast in .1857, where, in 1869, he met Mr. James Mac Kay, jun., who bought eight to ton million acres from. Natives for £l5O cash, a ton of flour, and half a ton of sugar, altogether valued at .£‘3oo. Mi'. Mackley witnessed the signatures. He subsequently visited Okarito, finding gold on the beach and in the Buller river. He visited Christchurch in 1863 and wrote a letter to the "Lyttelton Times” which caused a rush to set in. He bought 2200 acres in Little Grey Valiev, which he improved, and has resided on it ever since. It carries 1800 sheep and 300 head of cattle, and has a building like an English farmhouse. He visited England in 1886. and subsequently bought 2000 acres at Pakarae, in Poverty Bay. but sold it recently at an enormous profit ,as it was vastly improved. He leaves a widow, four sons and six daughters, including Mrs. Marshall, wife of the Hon. James Marshall, ML. C. He died peacefully at the age of 82.