PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3119, 19 February 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Nelson "Colonist" anno- ntes the etiremrntof Mr Robert Mian, who has baen the Nelson m v.iger of the New Zealand Clothing Factory for the last 28 years. In lecognition of his long and faithful fervices, Messrs H llenstein Bros., Limited, have grant, d him a pension, and also allowed h ; m to retain his old home in Trafalgar street, rent free.

An Auckland Press Association telegram states that Mr Geo. S. Titberadge, of the J. C. Williamson Dramatic Company, now in Auckland, who has been ailing for some days, was pronounced to be suffering frum appendicitis on Wednesday afternoon. Mr Titheradge was admitted to a private hospital. His medical adviser states that he hopes an operation may not be necessary. The popular actor's illness necessitated a sudden change of programme at His Majesty's Theatre, "Zira" being hastily substituted for "The Silver King."

Some time ago the papers contained long accounts of Colonel G. Hamilton Browne, a veteran officer of Colonial Irregulars, who was stranded in London and was willing to black boots for a living. Colonel Browne, generally called "Maori," because his first service was in New Zealand in 1866-7, holds medals also for the Zulu, Galeka, Basuto, Matabele and the Mashonaland wars, was commended for gallantrv at Rorke's Drift, raised the Umtali Rifles and held important poistions in the service. Reduced to extremities, he lived for three weeks on the sale of his medals, and then applied to the Salvation Army. When his position was made known he received assistance from many quarters. One day a letter came from a lady asking if he was the same Hamilton Browne who had served if Zululand, and saved the life of a man \/hose name she gave. He was the same, and he wrote telling her of the incident. The lady had been engaged to the man whose life was saved, but he died later in the Soudan, and she never married. The correspondence with Colonel Browne led to a meeting, and the acquaintance ripened into an engagement. The marriage took place last month, and as the lady is wealthy the vicissitudes of the veteran soldier are probably ended. The bride is Miss Sarah Wallis Wilkerson of The Beeches, Melbourn, Cambridge.