PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9607, 5 September 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Malcolm, M.P., who lectured in Palmei'ston last evening, left for Wellington by the Main Trunk express .to-day, Following an operation for appendicitis, which he underwent yesterday afternoon, Captain Robinson is' making satisfactory progress in a private- hospital. Mr R.MeNab is in Wellington giving evidence before tho Native Affairs Committee in connection with the Mokau inquiry. Dr. Evison, -i very old and highly re : spotted resident of Kuniara, (lied a few day? ago after a long illness, He had been forty years in New Zealand, of which twenty-seven were spent in Kuniara. The condition of Mr 11. Burling, the Waihnao centenarian, has considerably improved, lie had an attack of bronchitis and also a.'paralytic stroke. His right arm and leg arc (temporarily we trust) paralysed. The Rev. Herbert Reeve, vicar of tho Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland, has accepted the position of vicar of Christ Church, Wanganui. in succession _to Archdeacon Jacob, who has been appoint- ] ed vicar of Timaru.—Press Association. I

Guard Gnvey, who has been transferred from Foxton to Palmorston, was presented with a purse of sovereigns by hi.9 coworkers on tho railway at Foxton on Friday ovening and entertained at a social. Captain Lindeman, Government shipping master at Sydney, dropped dead in the Public Works Department in (that city while arranging matters in connection with his retirement, which had ju6t been announced. Heart trouble was tho cause,

The deaths are announced of two Foxton residents-Mrs Harriet Proctor (aged 36) and Mrs Giles Berry (aged 78). Mrs Berrv, who was the mother of Mr Henry Borrv of Foxton, was one of the pioneers of the Nelson -and Marlborough Province, The deceased was born in Scotland in 1833 and came to New Zealand with her parents Mr and Mrs John Gibson, in tho ship "Fifeshirc," and landed in Nelson away back in 1842 —she was then a girl of nine summers. Her father was for a time engaged at Nolson as tide waiter, but subsequently-removed to the Wairau. The deceased had a lively'rccoilection of tho Wairau massacre, whore Colonel Wakefield was killed and other stirring events, connected with the early history of that province. Slio was married in Nelson, and subsequently resided at Renwick and Blenheim, coming to Foxton with her son about six years ago.