PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7854, 21 June 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Captain East, Marine Superintendent of the 'lyser Line, who is to leave for London by the Niwaru.was entertained at dinner by the agents of the company throughout the colony at Napier, and presented with an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns, as tokens of the esteem in wh|!ch he is held in all parts ol Mew Zealand. On Monday afternoon, on the motion of Mr O. Samuel, His Honour Mr Justice Edwards admitted Mr P. H. FRzherbert to practice as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Now Zealand.

Dr. Owen, of Wcstport, has been appointed to the cfiarge of the .Ross Hospital. At St. Andrew's Church, Wcstport, on June 13, MrltuinbQld, headmaster of Mille. ton school, and Miss Jean McKay, of Westport, and niece of the Premier, were united in wedlock bj the ltov. H. H. Barton.

Mr George Holland, who died at Foxhill, Nelson, last week, was one of the eairliie&t HeMliirtil of ithfl iprovincc. He arrivtd in the ship Bolton, landing in 1842. Being at that time only ni lad, he joined file "boys' gang" o( the Now. opaland' Company, and was employed at ltkhrnond. lie farmed consecutively at AVakefield, Ranzau, and Foxhill. Mr Holland was twice married, aDd leaves a large family. The Wanganui Chronicle records the death of another of Wanganui's oIA identities, m the person of Captain Henry Shuttlcwonh, who passed away at his residence, St. John's Hill, on Saturday, at the ago of 75 years. The lutfl Captain Shuttleworth was for (nany years in the P. and 0. Steamship service in India and China. Subsequently he came to the Australasian colonies, and, during the Maori war, commanded the Ahuriri, a smart steamer of 130 tons. She used to run regularly between Wanganui, New Plymouth, and Manakau with troops, commissariat stores, etc. The steamer also ran on tho East Coast, conveying H.M. troops and colonial volunteers. Somewhere in the lafu 70's Captain Shuttleworth adqui>ro<l land in the vicinity of Wanganui and settl'ed down. Lat. telly he resided on St. John's Hill. Captain Shuttleworth was well and favourably known in commercial nil A shipping: circles... Ho was a gentleman of tho old school, and much. respected by his friends. Mr Hi. E. Biythe, latterly of the Waverley branch, .Iras arrived in New Plymouth to occupy the position of assistant at this branch of the Bank qffl New | Soutjh IValefi, vice Mr Esse, transferred to the managership of tho Waverley branch.