PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4084, 23 June 1900, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr T. J. AV. Gale, who has been suffering from a- severe illness, hut who is now, happily, on. the road to complete recovery, will leave on a trip to Australia next week.

Sergeant Jamss Donnelly, a wellknown police officer, died yesterday morning at his residence, Evelyn place, at the age of seventy-two. Deceased had an interesting career. At the ago of twenty he enlisted in the Irish Constabulary, and afterwards migrated to ■ Victoria, where he served in the mounted police force. He came to Now Zealand in 1863, .when ho joined the colonial defence forces, and was in four engagements in Taranaki dunng the Maori war. In 1867 he entered the police force, and was stationed at various places, including AVanganui, Wairarapa, Palmerston North. Since 1840 he has been Inspector of Weights and Measures in AVellinaton. Sergeant Donnelly was a trustworthy officer, and was one of i hose “old soldiers ” who were last session recommended to be paid £2O for personal expenses incurred during tlie war.

The death of Mrs M. A. Gower occurred at “Matut Putoa,” Patea, the residence of her son George, on the 12tk instant. A correspondent of the, Wanganui “Chronicle” says that Mrs Gower, who was very well known in the Eaugitikei district, was born in Leeds. Yorkshire, and landed in Wellington in the year 1810 in The Bolton, which was the second vessel to land settlers in what is noV the Empire, City. Him passed through and battled with hardships of UlO early days, of which she used to love to relate anecdotes. She and her husband, the late John Gov,-or, settled in Wellington for twelve years, and then travelled up the coast in The Tyne. The Gower family lived for six years in AVarrcngate, and finally settled in what is now the old 1 family home, “The Glen,” at Turn kina. After her husband’s death in 1864 she undertook the brunt of the care, and by perseverance she laid the foundation for a prosperity enjoyed by her family at the present day. At the ripe old ago of seventynine she breathed her last, after a lifetime of good.