PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3714, 8 November 1927, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The friends of Air. ,J. Death, of Purcell Street, wlil regret to learn that he is seriously ill. The friends of C. McCarthy will lie pleased to learn that he is now on the road to recovery after a serious illness in the Palmerston North Hospital. Airs. J. Moir, of Foxton, underwent a serious operation in the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday. We are pleased to report that she is progressing as satisfactorily as possible in the circumstances.

Air. Jeff Eagar, Otaki’s oldest resident, celebrated, his 90th birthday on Tuesday. Apart from his eyesight, Air. Eagar is hale and hearty. Air. Eagar was born on November Ist, 1837, in OjConnell Street, Sydney.

Air. W. A. Armour, principal of the Napier Boys’ High School, has been appointed principal of the Wellington College in place of Air. 1. 11. Cresswell, who is resigning on account of ill health. Air. Armour will take up his new duties in Febriiary.

Known affectionately in Battersea as “the old lady of Shillington Street,” Airs. Sarah Collins celebi’ated her 106th birthday in September. Believed to be the oldest woman in England, Airs. Collins is attended by her daughter, who is over 70, and both draw the old age pension. In Queen Victoria’s time she was employed at Buckingham Palace as a waitress and in other domestic capacities. A feature of the funeral of the late Air. Richard Tingey, which took place at Karori Cemetery, Wellington, on Friday afternoon was the presence of four Alaori war veterans whose ages totalled 355 years. They were Sergeant James Sandbrook, aged 94, who wore the Crimean medal of 1855 and the bar of the siege of Sebastopol, SergeantAtajor Bezar, aged 90, Private James Capper, aged 89, and Private Selby, aged 82. Captain Arthur C. Showman wellknown as commander of the Royal Alail liner Niagara, died in a private hospital at Sydney on Saturday morning. Only a few months ago Captain Showman, who had been a widower for some years, was married in Sydney to a New Zealand lady. On the last trip of his vessel from Vancouver he took ill and was relieved by Captain Hill, of the Alarama, and went as a passenger on the Niagara to Sydney where he entered a private hospital. Captain Showman, who was in his early fifties, was probably the best known and most popular of all the Union Company’s masters. He had very many friends in Auckland where as a Freemason he was a member of the Albion Lodge, Devonport. He leaves a son.