PERSONAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16044, 7 February 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Maori war veteran, named Denis Coffey, late 57 th Regiment (“Diehards”), died at the Veterans’ Home, Auckland. Mr Coffey was bom in the regiment, and enlisted at the age of fourteen years in 1856, He served at Malta and in Arabia, and then in India. He came to New Zealand in 1860, landing in Taranaki, and saw service in the Maori war with the 57th Regiment in Taranaki and Wanganui. He left the regiment in 1867, afterwards joined the A.C. Force, and went through the third outbreak of the Maori war, and was engaged at Tapapa, Taupo, Wanganui, and in the Urewera, He was in possission of two war medals for the Maori war, and had the Imperial and also the New Zealand military pensions.

Mr “Tommy” O’Carrol, a well-known amateur dancer who went to Sydney about twelve months ago to practice big art- professionally, has secured an important engagement with the Williamson Company. He is appearing in “The Bing Boys on Broadway,” and it is understood will be touring New Zealand with the company on the termination of the Australian itinerary. Quite a number of Wanganui-ites are leaving on visits to the Old Country. The Ruahine, which left Wellington yesterday, included in her passenger list the following from this city:— Miss C. G. T. Marshall, Mrs A. M. Marshall, Mr Gifford Marshall, Mr G. V. Hammond, Misses E. and A. Hiorns.