About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 9, 12 January 1904, Page 2

About People.

The Hon. James Carroll, Native Minister, was entertained by the natives at Ohinemutai on Wednesday last.

I hare are four members of a ftuuily said to bo living in tho colony whoso combined ages are' 332 years llirec ol Uj;m, two blotters- {t,nd a sister, la,ni.kd in the Bay of Islands over eighty years ago. They are Native Judge Williams, of Napier, aged cig|utj--si»;,:.Vvho retired sou:, vciirs since Mrs C. 1-. |) tt vieK, eighty-bm,', oi Wellington ; and Archdeacon Samuel Williams, ciglnty-two, of Te Aide Napier. Another brother, the lion' Henry Williams, M.L.0., was born in tho colony on Nov. .10, 1823, and is tnereiore over eighty. Alter the Borough Council meeting last evening the Mayor invited the councillors, the town clerk, borough solicitor and engineer to the Taraiuiki Club, «;. M v in a few well chosen sentences he referred to the excellent of Mr and Mrs wlmunds, who were leaving New Plymouth for Opiijmke.' Mr I'dimmds had resigned his position as councillor und he spoke in felicM >ns terms of that gentleman's nhilHies, and ulso of the verv great lieljj rendered by Mrs Edmunds in ii, a i,y social functions dining their short residence here. Air ,u.d Mrs Edmunds were people the town could not uMord to lose. They tried to foico tilings along, and generxllv speaking New l'lymouth people did not. The health was entluisuxl.ieallv honoured mid Air Edmunds briefly replied,

The late Mr C. J). Whitcomhe/ uhu.se death was recorded last wivlv was born fit Kocliesler Kent, on Svpteinhpr 7th, 18.16. 11l company with his third |.rothcr, Willi.u.i Eustace, dea-a-ed landed at Nelson from the ship Menienio early in 18(54, arriving in New I'lyVnpulh ip April of that year. His (j'nuidfatlier Hamuel Hint Thomas) afterwards Sir Samuel Whitcoinbe, K.C.11., was une of the must, dis(.in,.|iis)!ed lawyers of I,ls !.iin () , (le was offered a peerage if | H . would iinder'.ake the iimiiagi'ini-iit of the procv"dill's against the l'rlncess of Wales wlun the Prince Hugcnt .sought a divorce from hor, but ho ro.'u.ved. Sir SainHiuel married Mary, only daughter of Sir John Aubrey, Hart,