PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16546, 22 September 1919, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that Viscount Grey has sailed for New York. A Melbourne cable reports the death of Rear-Admiral Tickell, director of Navy reserves. Mrs. Walker was a passenger for Auckland by the Rarawa on Saturday night. Mr. H. Buckleton, general of the Rank of New Zealand, arrived in town on Saturday and will remain in the district till the cud of the week, visiting the branches and looking round generally. The many friends of Mrs. Charles Ansford, of Korito, will bo pleased to j know that she is making a good recovery after the operation she had last j week‘in the New 'Plymouth Hospital. 1 Messrs 1 . J. S. Connett, A. Morton, and J. Brown, who have been to Wellington on business connected with the 1 dairying and freezing industry, returni ed on Saturday by motor, j Major-General Sir A. H. Russell, who I commanded the New Zealand Division I in Franco, is at present in AYcliington !. as a member of the Board of Selection lor candidates to the New Zealand i Staff Corps, which commenced sitting j at Defence Headquarters on Friday. 1 Colonel A. V. Bettington, of the i R.A.F., who has been in New Zealand j to report on aerial matters for the ! New Zealand Government, left for Eug- ■ land by the Athonic on Sunday. Colonel ■ Bettington has presented his report to . the Government, and it will be made j public in duo course. : j Mr. MTvenzio Fraser, engineer to the j Whaugarei Harbour Board, paid a visit | to New Plymouth last week while on 1 the way to Wellington on business, and ! was shown over the works hero. An j j empowering bill for developments at I Whangarei is being brought before Pari liament. Mr. Fraser left for Wellington this morning. Mr. Lee, tho engineer associated with Mr. Blair Masen at New Plymouth, also left for Wellington in connection with harbour matters.

Another one of New Zealand’s old colonists, Mrs. S. Burrows., passed away at her late residence, Frankley Road on Friday, September 19. She had a seizure while visiting a friend, and quietly passed away after being brought home to her residence. Tho late Mrs. Burrows arrived in Auckland in January, 1865, in th ship Victory, and had thus been 54 years in New Zealand. She had attained the age of 81 years, having been born on October 22, 1863, at Birmingham, England. She is survived by her husband, Mr. P. P. M. Burrows, three sons, namely, Arthur M, Burrows, of Eltham, William C. Burrows and Pierce F. Burrows, of New Plymouth; also four daughters, namely,"Mrs. G. Heald and Mrs. F. Corney, of Auckland, and two unmarried daughters to mourn her loss. Mrs. Burrows was buried to-day in the Te Henui Cemetery.