PERSONAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15132, 29 January 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr P. J. Chisholm, chief mail clerk at Auckland for the past six years, has been appointed to a similar position at Wellington. Mr C. H. Webb-Bowen, whose death is reported at Toorak, Melbourne, aged 82 years, was for a couple of decades clerk of the Court in Nelson. He resided for the last ten years in Melbourne.

Mr John Harper, senior, one of the “Canterbury Pilgrims,” has just died, aged 90 years. He arrived in one of, the first four ships, with his wife and three sons, one being born on the way out. At . first he lived in a cave on the hillside at Heathcote Valley, but later moved to a sod hut on the bank of the river. Ten of deceased’s grandsons have enlisted for active service. Mr Antonio Costa, coxswain of the Newcastle lifeboat crew, died at Newcastle recently, after an illness extending over two years. His death recalls the wreck of the steamer New England on the Clarence River bar. New -South Wales,.in February 1882. He and Vito Losocoe were seamen on a schooner lying off the Clarence when the New England was wrecked. With two other men, Peter Jules and John Lemaire, they rowed off in a small boat and rescued eleven persons. The rescuers were presented with gold medals of the National Shipwreck Relief Society. Mr Losocoe died in Newcastle a few months ago.