PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 287, 26 April 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. E. Sykes, who has been on a, visit to Australia, has returned. An old colonist died at Taita, Hutt Valley, on Wednesday, in the person of William Scott, at the age of 87 years. A Sydney cablegram states that Captain Neville will be transferred from the Manuka to the Willochra. After bunkering she will leave Newcastle on Wednesday direct for Dunediu. Mr. James Garnett, Mayor, of Hastings, was taken suddenly ill on Thursday night, and was removed to a private hospital Buffering from appendicitis and peritonitis. An operation was found imperative at an early hour yesterday morning. The latest information is that lie is doing as well as can be expected. The Governor and Lady Liverpool yesterday visited Cambridge, His Excellency performing the opening ceremony at the Cambridge Chrysanthemum Show. wore accorded a civic reception, and presented with an illuminated address. The Vice-Regal party displayed great interest in the exhibition, and after inspecting the picturesque grounds of the Cambridge Domain they left by motor car loi- Okoroire. The Governor will return to Cambridge next Friday to witness the field operations of the Auckland Brigade Mounted Rifles, now in camp at Cambridge. The death occurred at Kaponga on Thursday of Mr. W. J. Barleyman, a well-known settler. His end was very sudden, according to the Hawera Star. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Barleyman had just come in from a drive. Mr. Barleyman was unharnessing the horse when he suddenly collapsed and died in a very short time. He had been a sufferer from heart disease for some years. He was born in Blenheim, and edncated at Nelson College, lie entered the Customs as a young man, but, disliking the worK, retired from the service. He came to Taranaki with his father, and subsequently went with him to the Manawatu, where his fattier had large flax-mill interests. When the mills were sold, Mr. Barleyman settled on the land on the Roman road, where he has been ever since. He was a settler in Taranaki of about twenty years standing, and was 51 years of age at his death. He leaves a widow and three children.