PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3583, 6 January 1927, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Visitors to Foxton include Miss Briggs (Whangarei), Messrs D. H. Wise (Dunedin) H. Frankland (Wellington) and W. Walls (Wellington). * J Another old settler and pioneer of the Manawatu has passed away in the pergon of Mrs I. W. Lovelock, relict of the late J. W. Lovelock, of Palmerston N. The deceased lady was born in Wellington in 1850, and her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Edwin Bannister, originally came from Straffordsliire, England; Eight sons and four daughters are left to mourn their loss. A Dunedin telegram announces the death of Sir John Ross, aged 92, founderyof the firm of Ross and Glen dinning, He was born in Caithness, Scotland, and came to New Zealand- in 1861. His benefactions during .■bis life time included £20,000 to Knox College, the Presbyterian £ Church training school, and £5,000 to the Ross Home, named after him. After a lifetime spent in NewZealand, Mr. and Mrs.-\Franklin Skevington Shepherd, of Te Atatu, Auckland, celebrated their, .diamond wedding on Monday; Mr. -Shepherd is in his eighty-second . year* and Mrs Shepherd is 80. They- believe they are the first New- Zealand born couple to celebrate such a proud event. Mr. Shepherd was born in New Plymouth and is 4he' second son of the late John and Martha Shepherd, perhaps -the 1 earliest white settlers in Taranaki. Mrs,-" Shepherd was born at Official Bay, now Mechanics’ Bay, Auckland and is the daughter of the/late William and Suzanne Rowe. When, he was four Mr. Shepherd’s family removed to the Auckland and he has lived there ever since. In 1863 Mr. - Shepherd joined the militia and took part in the Maori wars. When still quite a young man he took part in (he rush Ato the Thames goldfield and prospecting followed his occupation as a painter. %