PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17425, 20 September 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL

Dr Hay, Inspector-general of Mental Hospitals, is visiting the institutions at Seacliff, Waitati, and the Peninsula. At the last meeting of the Southland Presbytery a call from the Waikaka charge to the Rev. J. S. Young, of Waikiwi, was sustained, and was accepted by that gentleman. The death has occurred suddenly of Mr William Steele, Australasian manager for Messrs Ward, Lock, and Co., who had an unbroken record of 51 years' service witK his firm, and founded the Australasian branch in 1684. Mr Steele had many friends in Now Zealand. ... The death has occurred at sea of Mr David Wisher, who was well known in Wellington as a man of fine inventive faculty. A company was recently formed in Wellington to his invention for the making of a new kind of cistern and other receptacles for holding water, from a mixture of cement ' I and paper pulp, a fabric said to withstand , the effects of water indefinitely. He was , on his way to London (under arrangement i with the Government authorities here) to i float his patent in England, when his death . from a very virulent form of influenza took i place > By the_ death of Mrs Robert Marshall at West Taieri on Friday last another of the i old identities disappears. Mrs Marshall ■ arrived in New Zealand from Scotland with her husband in the ship Three Bells in '• 1858, and shortly afterwards settled on Burnside farm, West Taieri, where she had since resided almost continuously. Her family consisted of six sons and six daughter's, and at the time of her death there were 77 grandchildren and 56 great-grandchildren, a I number of whom are at the front. Mrs Marshall was in hej ninety-fifth year, and almost up to the day of her death retained all her faculties. She was much esteemed by all_ with whom she came in contact, and ner kindly and hospitable nature won her many friends, as was evidenced by the large . following at her funeral on Monday. Her | husband predeceased her 12 years ago. t Mr George S. Jackson, who has been i appointed the representative of the United t States on the Allied Food Commission, is the great-great-grandson of Mr Joseph | Caton, shipowner merchant, of Liver- » pool. In a sketch of Mr Jackson's ancestry t the Liverpool Post mentions that a greataunt of his father was Mrs William Shelmerdine, whose great-granddaughter is the wife of Dr Wflliam Fitzgerald, Deputy Commissioner Medical Service, No. 1 Board, Liverpool. Dr Fitzgerald is a son of Mr W. S. Fitzgerald, of Dunedin, and commenced his medical studies in the University .of Otapro.