MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 146, 21 June 1905, Page 3

MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

The death is announced o£ Maximo Gomez, the liberator of Cuba,

Constables Walker and Williams, of the Dunedin Police Force, have resigned. Mr G. Renner arrived at Blenheim today from Pahiatua to take part m the duties devolving on the Land Board in connection with the Flaxbourne ballot.

Professor Rutherford is travelling overland from Auckland to Wanganui. Enquiries have been received as to his address, but bis »xact movements are notkaiwn. Mr. Ruthe?ford left Auckland on the 7th, and it was his intention to visit Rotorua before conning south.

Henry Trumble, who was murdered and mutilated at the New Hebrides, was a brother of Miss Trumble, of Westport. Deceased was 41 years old. For twenty years he had been managing a sugar" plantation at Hamilton, near Cairns, Queensland, and was probably at New Hebrides on business.

Colonel Porter has resigned and severed his connection with the Defence Forces of the Colony. He bas taken a position as President of the Rawati Maori Council, and will be stationed on the East Coast. In this capacity he will be able to influence large areas of native land being thrown open for settlement.

The late David Herd, whose demise was chronicled on Monday, was a native of Dundee, Scotland. He came out to Melbourne in the Tironderago, where he landed on January 1853, and not caring for the shepherding in Australia he came on to New Zealand, landing in Nelson in December, 1854, and in the Wairau in January, 1855, where he resided all the remainder of his life. He was working manager for Mr A. P. Seymour, Tyntesfleld, for nearly 20 years, since which time he has successfully farmed a section on the Plain, where his cultivation of the grape vine and manufacture of wine showed the superiority of Marlborough soil for that purpose. Deceased leaves a family of five sons and three daughters, all grown up.