GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14612, 30 August 1913, Page 5

GENERAL.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

■ The doaitlb occurred iit Soatoun, WylTingttioit, of Mil's Marianne Grant, in Jivr eighty-second year. Mrs Grant arrived at Lyt-tleiton, in New- Zealand, in tho year '1867, in the ship Mcllita, of which her husband, tho late Captain •J. S. Grant., wias in com m-and. One daughter-is tho wife of Caphiin; Albert Duder, <of Auckland. .Mrs Grant also lefit twelve grand-cQi'iJdr-en and fourteen g,rea!t>grandehildren. , • '-: • A link of the maritime history.of itflie pastand present was broken out Wednesday night tost in -.he doi'h of Ca.p'twm Alexander Eiagletwi, Ft 'Devonport. Tfhe deceased was a vw/ old colonist, being 1 engaged;: in the early fifties In trading on the New Zealand coast. Ho glaveV up following the sea about twmty-five. years ago, and was shortly.alter selewl as .oa retake r of Calliope. Dock. M? Eagjleiton. had remched his eighty-sixth year,' and loaves 'a widow, four daughters, and iihiree sons to -mourn j their loss. T!he late Mr John CoDbeck who was found dead in the Auckland Club yes (terday -was born in Yorkshire, and took, his By degree at Oxford. He was for some years- with tho. Bank «.f Nc.w- Zealand, 'bant, later on was a member of the Auckland Stock' Etc- . change, from which position he retired a few years- agio, in ilho early days Mr Colbeek wias a.n enthusiastic Kii'mflb-y footibiill player, in the tunes •tvihen the nwitoho'S were played on the Ground. He had been Buffering from heart, tlrou'ble. for some -time and had l)cem under medical at J :-fceintion. '