PERSONAL

Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 48

PERSONAL

Mr J. R. Deal, of the clerical staff of the AuckJLaud Magistrate’s Court, has been transferred to Gore, and left last Thursday to take up his new duties. He was met by members of the court staff before ho left, and Mr C. A. Burton, the clerk, on their behalf, presented him with a travelling bag. . Advice has been received by the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church that the Rev. H. Davies, Mrs Davies, and Miss M'Ewan, missionaries of the Canton Villages Mission, arc leaving Hongkong by the s.s. St. Albans, duo to sail “yesterday. The steamer is duo at Sydney on July 13, and it is very likely that the missionaries will arrive at 'Wellington on July 20. Mrs Davies went to Canton in 1905, and Mr Davies and Miss M’Ewan in 1909. Their furlough in New Zealand will be about 18 months. The death is announced at Hororata (says the Lyttelton Times) of Mrs Richards, wife of the late Dr. Henry Richards, in her ninety-first vear. Mrs Richards arrived at Lyttelton by the ship Sir George Seymour, one of the “first four ships,” which anchored at Lyttelton on December 17, ■ 1850._ Mrs Richards was one of the first party of English ladies who walked over the Port Hills by the Bridle Path (at that time unfinished) to the plains. Mrs Richards loaves live sons and three daughters. Although she had reached such a great ago she retained all her faculties practically to the end.