PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 November 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Polio© Sergeant J. S. Marton, of New Plymouth, arrived here this moraI ing to relieve Sergeant Henry, who is-. I away on leave. The Rev. Mr. Ings, who has been, relieving at the Hawera Presbyterian Church, left this morning en route to Dannevirke. • , Miss Elmira Million, an old pupil oir the New Plymouth Girls' High School, gained a second-class pass in English language and literature at the recent Victoria College term examination. A Sydney cable states that General I lonoff, a prominent Czarist soldier, wha I joined the White Army after the revo- | lution and fought on the German, and Turkish fronts, has arrived with tii*I wife and two daughters, en route to j New Zealand, where they intend to- , settle. He tells a vivid story of Rusj sia's condition and the sufferings of the people under Bolshevik rule. • The death is reported from Foxton of a> well-known resident in the person of 'Mr. John Hillary, aged 79 years. Deceased, who a .was born in England in , 1843, joined the Navy in 1859, but later transferred to the merchant service. In January, 1867, he landed in the Dominion, and was engaged in various pursuits in the Manawatu district for twelve monthß, when he wa» appointed ferryman on the Manawatu river by the Wellington Provincial Council.' He continued in this position the coach ran between Wellington and Wangantii; In 1881 he obtained the Foxton ferry, and in 1883 erected a, new one at Wirokino, which he worked i in conjunction with the Foxton ferry '. 'In his occupation he was known far and wide in the early days. The late Mr. Hillary had no relatives in New Zealand. A colonist of 80 years' standing, Mrs. Margaret Otto, died at Remuera, Auckland, at the age of 81. Mrs. Otto was only six months old when she arrived at Auckland with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac McEwen, by the Duchess of Argyle, on October 10, 1842. Mrs. Otto retained vivid memories «of the Maori war days. She recalled her mother taking the family to hide beneath the house for hours at a time from the Maoris. She also spoke of her brother, Philip McEwen, being ' j killed 73 years ago. He was » member of a company -trading in sandalwood which chartered a whaleboat and sailed for the Islands. The natives took them prisoner, and massacred the whole party except the ship's carpenter, who managed to escape and burned the ship. Apart from the fact that ] her closing days were marred by blind--ness, she enjoyed fair health considering her great age, and was present at the old colonists' reunion held at the Town Ball on October 10.