PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 78, 5 July 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram announces the death of Mr William Joseph TricKott, who was a member of the Legislative Council for thirty-six years. Mr James Davidson, one of early settlers of the Dominion, died this morning at Hawera, aged 80. Doceased led a busy public life for many years, lie was tbe first chairman of the Hawera Town Board in 1875. Press Association.

The friends of Mrs A. Gardiner and family will be pleased to learn that Mr W. J. Gardiner, who has been an inmate of the .New Plymouth Hospital for the past three weeks, is now in a lair way towards recovery alter Ins serious illness.

Dr. William Brown, M.A., who was for several years chairman of the Board of Governors of the Boys' and Girls' High Schools, Duncdin, and at one time chairman of the Otago Education Board, died suddenly in Dunedin on Saturday at the age of stsveiuyone. ■" '

"The death occurred .yesterday of Mrs Ann Evans, of Hawera, who was with Florence Nightingale as a nurse at Scutari, in : the Crimean war. ''Granny,!?,., as she was fanuliarly known, was a ; dear.;oUl lady-who ..for niany years' graced the Hawera railway refreshihcht rooms;. She;|]lad ; 'i;ehched| the, ripe of 83 .years. ~M ~,,,,,.,!] ft | At Pateavpn Saturday, night Aheem rti ployees of the Patea Farmers' Co--op-< cf-atiVe FrceSutig Co., the members of ■the Patea Rifle 1 Club and a large numbisr'of other friends of Lieut. It. A. Brewer foregathered to bid him Godspeed ; prior to his departure for the front with the next detachment of the New Zealand Field Artillery.

'An old colonist, Mr William Sowman, passed away last •••Wednesday night in Blenheim. The' deceased, who was 75 years.of age, was bqrn. in Suffolk, England, and with, his parents came out to New Zealand in 1853, landing at Lyttelton from the ship Canterbury! .The deceased. ;I) a. widow Jand,. gijand-chikllen, >;and teir great-grand-?/ cWldreri, !■"» " ? ; ■.}'■'■*' ' -£f*.*l ' e J!

A very pleasing , cv.ei.i.ing • was'. spent upcler Mr Blackstock V roof last .Thursday ' evening (states .a corre'-prmcleut), when "ilie llobsoil Boad settlers/" over forty in number, met together to bid farewell to Mr and Mrs Marsh. Mr Marsh has been for two years creamery manager; and has also rhmg with Mrs Marsh been very popular at all social gatherings, as their musical abilities are of a very high order. During the evening, Mr Blackstock, in a few appropriate words,, in the name of the sottlers, presented them with a silver teapot and silver jelly spoons. Mr Marsh made a suitable reply. The evening was spent in euchre, music, songs and dancing. The thanks of the settlers are due to Mr and Mrs Bowling for the trouble they took in collecting money and buying the presents.