PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The new Governor-Genefn.l of Australia (Lord Stonehaven) has arrived at Adelaide (a cablegram announces).

Mr. Derek Denny-Brown has, a London correspondent writes, passed his primary E.R.C.S. examination, and will start research work in October at Oxford under Sir Charles Sherrington, the famous neurologist. He is going up to Magdalen College, Messrs. W. J. Chaney and Harold Trimble, representing the Taranaki Association of the Justices of the Peace, leave at the end of this week for Christchurch to attend a federal council meeting and afterwards to attend the conference of (Federated Honorary Justices of the Peace to be held on Tuesday. Archbishop Julius, according to the “Church News,” is still detained in Sydney by the maritime strike. Happily, his is able to stay with his son, and he has made an excellent recovery from the recent operation which hold up his trip. The Archbishop is recorded as having preached at St. James’s, Sydney, on one occasion recently. Dr. IT. \V. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, returned on the Ulimaroa on Tuesday after a visit to Sydney where he attended the golden jubilee celebrations in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination to priesthood of Bishop O'Connor, of Arniidale. Prelates from all parts of Australia were present at the celebrations, including Dr. Redwood, Archbishop of New Zealand. The late Mr. William Henry Bo water, whose death occurred in the Palmerston North Hospital recently, was one of the very early settlers of the Sanson district. He was 73 years of age, and was born in Cardiff, Wales. As a child he came out with his parents to Melbourne, the family crossing the Tasman sixty years ago to settle in Wellington. There are left an invalid widow, two sons, Harold, of Waikato, and Cecil, ot l etone, and one daughter, Mrs C. Hill, of Kaponga. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Thomson, who for some years have resided in this district, leave on Thursday for Wellington. During their residence here both Mr. and Mrs. Thomson have taken a keen interest in a number of local institutions, and tliey will carry away with them the best wishes of a large circle of friends. Mr. .Thomson, who was a member of the Sth South African contingent, had acted clerk of the course here for the Taranaki Jockey Club, the North Taranaki Hunt and the Taranaki Trotting Club.

Captain Frederick William Macbeth, who died at Dunedin, was formerly a well-known and popular master in the Union Steam Ship Company's service. He was born in Aberdeen 6fi years ago, served his apprenticeship in sailing vessels, and joined the Union Company iu the ’nineties, when he brought out the cargo steamer PoHienia. After a term as chief officer in colonial waters he became a master of vessels in tihe Islands trade, commanding in turn the Ovalau, Tav.niui, and Corinna. Then he had charge of other vessels—the Warrimoo, the Mokoia in the intercolonial trade, the Mararoa for a time in the Wellington-Lyttelton ferry service, the Moura, and the Monowai in the Auck-land-East Coast-Dunedin trade. Captain Macbeth resigned from the Union Company’s active list in 1915 owing to illhealth, and was appointed assistant to Captain C. McDonald, then marine superintendent for the Union Company, with headquarters at Dunedin. Captain. Macbeith held the position for about six months, when he retired and since then he had lived at his home up to the time of his death. It was an accident near Suva that was the primary cause of his ill-health—a fall from a horse.

William George Perry died at Mangatokl recently at the advanced age of ninety-two. He was born at Taunton. Somerseitsihire, in the year 1833 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, arriving in the sailing ship “Queen of the Avon.” For part of th© journey he helped to man the vessel, as a portion of the crew deserted. Mr. Perry proceeded to Nelson, making his first home at Appleby and later at Richmond. Some t*me later he purchased a block of virgin bush in the Upper Montere district. In 1902 he retired from active life, coming to reside in Taranaki, first with his daughter Mrs. Mad Donald, at the Palmer Road, and for about fifteen years latterly with his daughter, Mrs. Gifford, of Elthani Road, Miangatoki. His wife predeceased him by thirty years. He reared a family of seven children, of whom six are still living—Mrs. E. J. Gifford (Mangatoki), Mrs. A. McDonald (Inaha, Manaia). Mrs. W. Drogmuller (Nelson), Mr. T. Perry (Mangaitokl), Mr. W. R. Perry (Green Lane, Auckland). Mr. G. Perry (Upper Moutere, Nelson). The eldest daughter, the late Mrs. W. Pinny, of Eltham, died some eight years ago. His descendants include 31 grand-children and 23 great-grand-children.—Star.