SORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 277, 18 November 1905, Page 3

SORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

Among the visitors to Blenheim at present in connection with Supleme Court business are Messrs H. D. Bell, Dr Findlay, Mr D. M. Findlay, and Mr Pilcher.

The death of Mrs Caroline Batchelor, at the residence of her daughter (Mrs John McAllister, Grove Road) is announced. Mrs Batchelor was an early Nelson resident, and the mother of a family greatly esteemed in that city. She was noted for a most charitable disposition, and her benevolent actions were a byword in the early days of the Nelson Settlement. Her memory will be held in esteem by a large circle of acquaintances, and tho widely spread family will have much sympathy in their bereavement.

;-'rMr James Fuller, sen., and Mrs Esson completed the 50th year of their residence in Picton on Monday last. They arrived (says tho "Press") in the old Waitohi on November 13, 1855, the only two white residents at that time being Messrs Walker and Martelli, who have been some time deceased. They, sitting on the hills yarning, had just remarked what a tieat it would be to see a white woman's wholesome face again, when a vessel rounded the Point, and from it, next morning ,there landed Mrs Fuller and her son and daughter. .«,*(**■ Mr Edward William'"*Clemens, a much-esteemed settler, who died at Picton yesterday, was born in Bradford Yorkshire, in 1823, and landed at Nelson off the Fifieshire on Febluary 1, 1842. Returning to England, he went to Australia in 1851, sind spent some time on the BencHgo diggings. He served with credit in the Melbourne water police; and eventually found his way to the new Canterbury settlclient, then to Nelson and to Renwicktown, finally reaching Pictoa in 1861, and settling at Shakespear Bay, with which he has been identified ever since. He first of all interested himself in coal prospecting, and then engaged in farming pursuits. His wife predeceased him a few years ago. He leaves a family of 14 children, mostly settled hereabouts, and | 37 grandchildren.

Mr G. H. Clutten, of the Blenheim branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed the local Treasurer of the Navy League. In confirming the appointment, the Wellington Executive expressed the hope that it would be the means of improving the financial status and increasing the efficiency or the Blenheim branch. The League gave a number of school prizes in the Marlborough district recently; and the support of the adult members of the community is desired. Mr C. W. Palmer, the Wellington Secretary and oiganiser, hopes to be able to revisit Blenheim at the beginning of the New Year. The affairs of the League are '"'booming" in Wellington.