PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 108, 28 April 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

-Miss 11, lihek, of Brooklyn, ha.s her «5" , 1«u". 1 .r W " it " i "" ll okal ' 0 scl,no,s Kx-ludge Munro died at Auckland on ,'ahmlay at the age oi\S4. Some weeks •i.'o lie was knocked down by a cyclist .'oil sever, | y bruised. Confinement to his bed (irought on a trouble which ne«>sitat,'d a surgical opralion. This -was IH'i'birnied on .Saturday morning. In the evemng \l r . Munro expired suddenly Ironi heart, failure. } 'l'he latent news regarding Mr. Joll. X'ceived m lhiwera yesterday afternoon, was:-■ Doctors report very satisfactory, still unconscious."

Word litis l«.pii received r rimi E n „, >""< l 01 the death of Mrs. Wallis, mother "' flic U-diop of WidHiigton. at Ktrcath- "".'• <">'■!>' in March. Tli«- Bishop re <■•■•!ved Hi,- news i, v cablegram at, Co loiiHio, oil Ins way Homo. I'h'' retirement 0 f Colonel Walter A | '"line removes, from the active list th ';i*t of the survivors of Ihe heroic dc | l'|ucw of Korke's Drift (says the Natn Aieieury). Colonel Dunne was horn i llvli. He joined the old Control Depart ""'lit in 1573, ami in 1577 was employe »* a junior conunwsarv in the ku'lli cani|wi ß ns. He served against the (ia Ms, Clalekas. and the Zulus, and foiHi '"■l'liul the mealie tegs at RorUe's Drill "'"I also at Clumli. lie was also en tfajfwl against the Boers inside l'otehel stioom, and saw- considerable service i l.Wpl and tin- Soudan. He was trans li'ned to the Army Service Corps i; ISS.I. ami has li|le,| colonel's appoint jiH'iils on the stall' since 1807. Colour Dunne, who u- ilrt an Assistan Director of Supplies and Transport a ■ihraltar in 1005, married, in 188: rt mifred, daugliter of the late Mr. Joli 'ird. C.M'.ti., and sister of tlie iiresei! 'cniianctil Under Secretary uf Natal