Personal Items.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11933, 5 April 1902, Page 2

Personal Items.

The appointment is gazetted of Mr E. Gerard, of Wellington, as Deputy Official Assignee for tbe Taranaki District. We understand that Mr Gerard baa not resigned his position of chief clerk to the Wellington bankruptcy office, and that as soon as the estat-s now in hand are wound up and their assets distributed another D.O.A. will be permanently appointed here. Constable Ryan, of Wellington, has been appointed to Hawera station in place of Constable Roche, who has been retired. Bandmaster T. B. McCo'finell, who possesses testimonials from the Napier Garrison, Invercargill, and Dunedin Citizens' Bands, has been appointed to the position of Bandmaster to the Hawera Borough Band, Mr B. A. Hignett went to Auckland on Thursday evening. Mr Hignett looks considerably improved in health, and he informed a Herald representative that he was- progressing surely, though slowly, back to strength. There occurred on Friday, the 4th instant the death of another of Taranaki's old identities, Mrs, Elizabeth Low, aged 76 years. The late Mrs Low arrived in Taranaki with her parents; Mr and Mrs J. Smart, coming out in the ship Blenheim in 1842. She afterwards married the late Dr. Roger Sbsrriff Low. In addition to the usual hardships experienced by early settlers Mrs Low. suffered the, anxiety attendant on, her husband's chronic invalidism ; yet stfe proved'herself equal to the (under the circumstances) hard task of caring for their family, her unselfishness as mother and' "wife being great. She was a most consistent Christian woman, and her good influence and example will be deeply missed among a lirge circle of friends. Deceased leaves a family of four children : Mrs F. Dixon. and Mrs C. Curtis, of t Stratf6rd, Mrs CF. Crawford and Mr E. C. Low, of New Plymouth. The late Mrs Low w,as a si3ter-in-law,of Ma;jor Parris, who married her sister at Home, the two coming out to New Zealand with the Smart family. %. - . -i