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Southland Times, Issue 20834, 24 July 1929, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

VICEREGAL. The Governor-General and Lady Fergusson, who have been visiting the earthquake area on the West Coast and Murchison, passed through. Nelson last evening on their way to Wellington. Monday nigh was spent in Murchison and yesterday morning an inspection of that district was made, their Excellencies leaving Murchison terday afternoon in time to connect with the Matangi at Nelson last evening for Wellington. . His Lordship, Bishop Richards of Dunedin, is at present on a visit to gillLegislative Councillors who left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington were Sir James Allen and the. Hons. G. M. Thomson, D. T. Fleming, and A. S. Malcolm. Mr. J. S. Scott, information officer in the New Zealand Tourist Department at Melbourne, after a visit to Dunedin and Queenstown, left Dunedin for the north yesterday.

Members of the Southland Ladies Hockey Association stood for some moments in silence at its meeting last evening, as a mark of sympathy -with the relatives of Miss S. M. Urquhart, of Thornbury, who died last week.

The late Mr Ernest R. Bloomfield left bequests of £5OO each to Christ’s College, Christchurch, and Trinity College, Cambridge, England, payable on the death of his widow. The estate has been sworn for probate at under £75,000. —Auckland Press Association message.

Mr J. S. Moir, of Christchurch, left Wellington on Friday by the Maheno for Sydney, there to connect with the.Naldera for England. Mr Moir is taking up an important position in London in connection with a syndicate of New Zealand newspapers.

Mr John Fisher, of Otautau, was a passenger to Dunedin by last evening s express. After a brief visit to the southern city he will continue his journey to Wellington, where he will be engaged on . business in connection with the bobby calf industry. He expects to return home in about a week’s time.

It is understood that Captain J. Bollons, of the Government steamer Tutanekai, will leave for England in the near future to bring the new lighthouse steamer, now being built in the Old Country, to New Zealand. During his absence, Captain W. Whiteford, of the Marine Department, Wellington, will have command of the Tutanekai. '

During the last few days there have passed away two worthy members of one of the early pioneering families of Southland, they being Messrs William Vessy and John Lindsay. The death of the last named was recorded yesterday and only one day elapsed before the death of his brother. Mr William Lindsay was born in Campbelltown, Scotland, and arrived in New Zealand in 1860 at the age of eight years. The family settled at Waianiwa and after 13 years moved to Limestone Plains and here Mr Lindsay remained until 14 years ago when, with his brother Andrew, he purchased a property on the Dipton Flat. He was a well-known breeder of Clydesdale horses and was a noted ploughman in his younger days., He never married.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland records the death of Mrs. Catherine Maud Mowbray, aged 69, at her residence on Sunday. She was born in Dunedin, the daughter of the Hon. John Hyde Harris (who was Superintendent of Otago from 1963 to 1865), and granddaughter of Captain Cargill. She was married to Mr. John Mowbray, of Auckland, in 1879, and resided in Parnell for over forty years. Her husband died in 1911. Six sons and. three daughters survive—namely, J. M. Mowbray, W. M. B. Mowbray, D. R. C. Mowbray, E. H. Mowbray, R. S. Mowbray, A. G. 11. Mowbray, Mrs. R. N. Gordon (of Wellington) and Misses Edith and Mary Mowbray (of Takapuna). The only other son, Mr. H. L. C. Mowbray, died a few months ago. There are seventeen grandchildren. Mrs. Mowbray is also survived by three brothers—Mr. J. E. Hyde Harris (of Wanganui), Messrs. W. C. Harris and Henry Harris (both of Australia), and two sisters—Mrs. A. McMaster (of Dunedin) and Miss E. Harris (of Parnell). The Hon. John Hyde Harris, who was an Oxfordshire man, died in 1886. His wife was Anne Cargill, second daughter of Captain Cargill.