PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death is announced by cable of Mrs Seely, wife of Colonel Seely, Secretary of State for War. Mr W. C. Coulter,' who has been for a number of years in the serrate ," of Messrs Dalgety and Co., of M&»terton, has severed his .connection, .with that firm. The death occurred in Wellington! on Saturday of Mr W. P. Davie, father of Mrs F. Ttf. B. lishfer, at the age of eighty-five years. / T-he deceased ca-ri© to New Zealand in 1864. ■Mr Hiley, the new General Manager of Railways, left liverpool ;«» Friday last, en route for theDomSnion. He will reach- Auckiand ioa.i September 23rd. ** ~>.i Sir James Carroll expects to be TtfeU enough- to return to Wellington dajL ■ 'take up his' Parliamentary duties] Hi about three time. •' i ' The death occurred on Saturday of Mra Caroline Fitzgerald, wife of MrJohn Fitzgerald, for many years a highly-respected resident of Pal*nerston North. " Mr J. T. of Dannevirke, has beGn; appointed' an 'atifetioneer; ib the Palmers ton branch of Messrs Jjalgety and Co., Ltd., in place of Mr Hall, who has been transferred .'to Masterton. " . Many early Wellington and Hatt settlers will regret to hear of the death of. Mivßassett ; relic of the-laie Thomas Bassett, Ohariu. The deceased lady, who passed away i©]> Saturday afternoon, was "born in D®r» ; j.-;shire, Eiigland,-82 years &go. V* The death oeeUll'e.a 'at 1 Sunday of Mrs Nellie Cameron, of Mr Dougall Cameron. The de- .. I'-pased lady had been ailing for. tha past, three hfoiitlis, and a week aga ; suffered" archill, pneuhi6hiS&6rtting in, which ended as Jtbove stated; Dfr » ceased was a daughter of the late iMr John Murray, Horokini Road, Petone, and a sister of r Mrs Alex Knight, of Waiwetu, Lower Hutt. 1 The funeral is taking place at Petone this afternoon. Advice has been received of th& death of Mr Sylvester (Pat) Egan, late of Hall's Road, Pahiatua, in the | Hamilton Hospital. Deceased, who l was 36 years of age 1 , died on August 3rd, after having nret witli an' accident nine days previously. ' Air John Perrin, a Crimean veteran, and ah early resident in the northern district of Canterbury, died, at Kaiapoi on Sunday. His name appears in the list of veterans on the roll of honour, as a defender of the Empire, 1840-1902, which was. compiled by Lord Kanfurly. Mrg Sarah Miller, who died in Wellington recently, was a resident of Nelson for seventy years, having come out to that district in . the ship Lord Auckland when she Was an {infant. Seven, wepks before her death she removed to Wellington; • ! * Recollections of the-'escape of the * notoiious cliief, TeJvooti, from the Chatham islands, on July 4th, 1868, was realied by the death of Captain J. Christian, news of which has been received , from Christchurch. The deceased had charge Of the threemasted scliooner Rifkiman, which was > seized by Te Kooti , and his fellow prisoners when they vii ndo their-es-cape. To Kooti compelled those in charge of the vessel to" navigate him to Poverty Bay, where Ivj and his follower landed, afterwards being responsible for the infamous! Te Kooti massacres. Captain Christian's death was brought about'by an accident some months ago, when he fell down between the Ngatoro and another fine vessel which Was at Wellington coaling her. alongside.' . v Ho never , recovered properly frotn the injuries he then received'. . \ . ,v