PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9855, 24 July 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

r.-::;.r : :.-,.^:> ! -. r ' -;;:■ A London cable states that Albert E. Troik ihe well-known • Anglo-Australian cricketer, is in St. Mary's hospital seriously Hh, Mr Frank Hurley, official photographer for the Mawsdn expedition, announces his intention of joining Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition (says a cable). Sergt.-Instructor J. A. B. Thompson, late of the Essex Regiment, who has recentily arrived in the Dominion, took over his duties in Palmerston North yesterday. A private cable received in Wellington announces the death in London of the Hon. ; John Blair Whyte, formerly a member of the Legislative Council He waa a farmer in Walkate. The death is announced from Dunedin of Mr Walter George Geddes. aged 84. He arrived in Otago in 1863, and was in business in Dunedin for many years. Deceased was also a prominent Oddfellow.— Press Association. A Christchurch Press wire announces the death, of Mr Cyril Holm Bias, District Engineer of .Railways for Canterbury, aged 48. Deceased, who has been seriously ill for several day*, leaves a widow, three daughters, and two sons. Mr Alex. Anderson, of Palmerston, who has been on a trip to England, returned' to Palmerston yesterday. Mr Anderson went Home to compete in the Tourist-Trophy motor cycle race in the Isle of Man, out after putting Up excellent trials previous to the event had the misfortune to have a breakdown early in the race. Mr Frank Holland, formerly on the teaching staff of the Campbell street school, who went to Germany to study music, is at present in Canada for health-recruiting purposes. Mr Holland was troubled with a soyere throat ailment in Germany, but his many local friends' will be pleased to learn that he is recovering. The latest report received from Brussels by Mr J. L. Beck from his son, Hadyn, is the effect, that the talented young musician, who is studying hard and making good progress under Professor Caesar Thomoson,. nf the Brussels Cbnservatorium, has thoroughly recovered" from his recent throat trouble (says the Wanganui Herald). Master Hadyn says he is now in perfect health, and is preparing for an examination. The death occurred on Monday night at her residence, Washington Valley, of one of the very earliest of Nelson's settlers in the person of Mrs Eliia Simpson, relict of the late Mr Archibald Simpson, who predeceased her some twenty years (says the Colonist). Mcs Simpson came to Nelson with her parents in the ship Olympus in 1342. Her father, the late Mr John Burnford, was one of the survivors of the Wairau massacre, he losing an arm in the affray. The deceased lady since her marriage lived continuously at Washington Valley, and was known to a very yarge circle of friends. She leaves a family of five, one of the daughters being Mrs Callister, of Carterton. There passed away on Thursday, at Levin, one of the fast diminishing band of early pioneers in the person of Mr William McNickle, who landed at Melbourne in 1861, and soon after made his way to the Otago goldfields. In January, 1862, he was in business in Wetherstones,'where there was a moving population of nearly 6000, mostly under canvas. There were then about fifteen hotel& Two years later the population went down to 1500 and the hotels to about five, and since then the name Wetherstones, has almost been forgotten. From Wetherstones most of the diggers moved towards the Dunston (Clyde). A few settled about Gabriel's Gully and Lawrence which were only two miles away. Mr McNickle, chief clerk of the local Post Office, is a son of the deceased. The late Mre John Udy, whose death was recorded on Tuesday, wad a member of the Bassett family, well-known early settlers in the Carterton district. She came to New Zealand with her parents and two brothers and a sister in the ship Queen Margaret in 1855. They landed in Wellington, and almost immediately left for the wilds of Wairarapa. There was only a track over the Rimutaka then, and the district gave little indication of the wonderful progress in store for it. The Bassetts took up land first at Greytown, towards Woodside, and lived there ten years, undergoing all the hardships of pioneer life. The Waiohine river, in 1858, brought down the heaviest flood known before or since, and the family had to take refuge for some time in the loft. The. river became so troublesome that the family finally removed and settled in the bush at Carterton, where they made a new home. These boisterous days, and the knowledge that there will be many puch during the next three months, has made a demand for the 5s millinery at Collinson and Cunninghame's. Every one of this season's models have been ruthlessly slaughtered, though prices were 21s to 555. The earliest possible call should be made, and your pick taken at ss.—Advt.