PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 219, 14 August 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces decoration has been awarded to Major J. L. Saunders, D. 5.0., Wellington Regiment. 1 Advice has been received that Dr. Van dor Leeuw (a recent visitor to Palmerston North) has been in hospital in Sydney with typhoid fever, but be is reported to bo rapidly recovering.

Mr Walter Fuller, who lias lieen representing the theatrical firm of that name in London for nearly three years, is returning to Wellington. He is a passenger by the Orama, now well on her way from London to Sydney.

A Press Association telegram from Greymou'th reports the death of Mr James Creagh, ex-Mayor of Brunnerton, and one of the earliest settlers of the West Coast. He was 72 years of age.

Mr John It. Heuglian was in Palmerston North to-day arranging for the final visit of the famous singer, William Heughan, who is + o appear here at the-end of the month. Ho has been scoring great successes throughout the Dominion and leaves at the beginning of September for Australia. A cable message announces the death of Mr William 11. Brown, editor of the Agricultural Gazette, Department of Agriculture, New' South W ales, aged 60 vears. The_ deceased gentleman was formerly in New Zealand with the Christchurch Press and the North Otago Times, and was held in high esteem within and without the Government service. The message adds that there were four hundred mourners at the graveside. Mr J. A. Warnock, of Richmond, Auckland, who is on a trip abroad, was seriously injured by a street accident at Niagara Falls. U.S.A. A motor truck having got out of control, it mounted the sidewalk and knocked Mr Warnock down. He sustained a fracture of the skull and although the doctors are now more hopeful than they were at first his conditionals still very serious. Mr and Mrs W arnock left by the Aorangi on June 5 on a visit to America. They were returning via Niagara Falls in order to catch the mail boat at San Francisco. Mr Denis Ryan, of New Plymouth, who celebrated his 103rd birthday on July 17, died last week. Ho was oelieved to bo tho oldest man in the Dominion. He was in good health until a few days .ago. Mrs Ryan died nearly four years ago, at the age of 79. There were seven sons and three daughters. Two sons were killed on active service, one in the Boor War and one in the Gloat War. There remain two sons and two daughters Messrs George D. Ryan and Christopher Ryan, and Mesdames W. Ironmonger (New Plymouth) and D. Gray (Omata). The death of a well-known pioneer settler, Mr Malcolm Machines, at Makaraka, near Gisborne, yesterday at, the age of eighty-eight is surrounded by circumstances of rather pathetic interest. Deceased, who was born in Scotland, came to New Zealand in ISSB, but later went to Australia and returned to New Zealand at the time of the Gabriel’s Gully rush. Forty-seven .years ago he went to Hawke’s Bay, where lie fell in with a friend, Mr R. G. Mather, also from Scotland. After working on various stations, the two men took up land in Povertv Bay thirty-seven years ago, being the first settlers on Crown land near Wharerata, and until 1914 they farmed their land in Poverty Bay, returning to Makaraka, where the two men have lived ever since. Both deceased and Mr Mather have been inseparable companions for forty-seven years, and neither has married, the two being well-known identities throughout the district on account of their close association. —Press Association.