PERSONAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4225, 7 May 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Rupert Russell, who is leaving Eketahuna for Levin. was the recipient of an inkstand from the Methodist choir and friends. Air H. G. Stirling, of the huna branch of the Bank of New South MTales, has received notice of his transferral to Greymouth. Air 1). AI. Horne, a very old resident of M’oodville, hut who lias for the last ten years been farming at Ballance, died this morning from a u attack of pneumonia, aged <>B years (says a Press Association message from M’oodville). Deceased and family arrived in tin colony in tlie City of Auckland, which was wrecked at the mouth of the Otaki river, but all the passengers landed safely. This was in the year 1878. Air Valentine Harrison, an old colonist, died at Hawera on Sunday. He was born at Omata, New Plymouth, in 1854. After serving for a number of years on the literary staff of the M’airarapa Standard, the Alanawatn Times and the Manawatu Standard, he started the M T oodville Examiner for a company. Owing to ill-health, however, lie had to relinquish newspaper work, and returned to Taranaki.