PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. Mortensen,' the Danish scientist, who is in New Zealand undertaking marine investigations for his Government, leaves the Bluff to-day by. the Government training steamer Amokura,on a cruise round the islands south or New '.Zealand.-' His southern trip will last about three weeks, and he then goes to tlie Auckland province. .

The death occurred yesterday at the. Lower Hutt of Mrs.-Emilie Janot Jackson,'relict of the.lat-Q Henry Jackson, and one of the oldest aiid most-respect-ed residents of the district, having arrived there, in the year 1862, aud resided there:ever.,since. The deceased lady was an enthusiastic church worker ' being one , of the earliest members of St. James' Anglican Church, and for over fifty years a heading member of its choir. The . late Mrs. Jackson was pre-dcceased / byher husband eight years, , and'leaves surviving six. sonE— Mr.'. R.' K.' Jackson' solicitor, Master-, ton; I". W. P. Jackson, of Sydney; Elwyn fl. Jagkson, of . the staff of the Union Bank, Christchurch; C. C. Jackson, sheep-farmer. Kopuaranga': Percy ■Jackson, of the legal firm, of Messrs. Wilford, Levi, and jackson ; and E. 0. Jaokson; and two daughters, Mrs. Bar-, clay -Hector: and Mrs. Dillon-Kelly. The interment will take at. St. James's Chiirch, Lower Hutt, to-mor-row afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Captain M. Saraty,.'" a resident of ■Greymou'th for the past eleven years, died in that town last* week.... The daceased, -who was a native of Greece, and eighty-four years of age, was master of various vessels trading in Mediterranean and-Chinese-waters.

: The death 'occurred at Claudelands on Friday morning of Mr. Aston Thomas Foxhall Wheeler, aged 69, widely known throughout the Auckland province. Ho earne rto thd Dominion ' in 1880 from Great Cloverley, Shropshire, and was farming at Tamabere many years. Ho was a member of several local bodies, and an enthusiastic bowler. He was for many years president of the Hamilton Club, resigning tan account of illhealth a short time ago. Mr, Wheeler was the first president of the Waikato Reform League He leaves a widow and two young ohildren./ Captain H. Jacobsen, who was the "first harbour signalman at Westport, .and. for' .many years signalman at Britannia Heights, Nelson, died near Auckland a few'days ago, aged eighty.