PERSONAL.

Northern Advocate, 19 June 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Hon. W. Stewart left for Wellington to-day to await the opening of Parliament.

Lieut. Allan, Adjutant of the 3rd Auckland Mounteds, returned to Auckland to-day, having completed his duties at the local defence headquarters.

Messrs Boddie, Robertson and Titchener, of the Farmers' Union Trading Company, returned to Auckland to-day after a business trip in connection with the affairs of the Company in Whangarei.

We were pleased this week to receive a visit from Mr R. L. Sherlock, a onetime resident of Maungakaramea. In the spring of 1871 Mr Sherlock left New Zealand and settled .!k tho backwoods of Oregon, about 500 miles from Portland. Here he carved out a home and carried on the business of sheep and cattle farming and brought up a young family of three daughters, now all married. He tells us that the place in which he settled was very wild indeed, and for ten or twelve years they .had to fight the Indians periodically. They lived in what he called a primeval world, and had to grow practically all their food. Thinking that he was entitled to a holiday, Mr Sherlock wandered back to Whangarei in order to renew some of his old acquaintanceships. He was, he said, well acquainted with many families in Whangarei in his early days, among them being Ihe Mair, Wilson, Sissons and Boult families. He w r as greatly pleased with the improvements for the better noticeable in Whangarei, and expressed the dasire to come back here to live.