PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 10 July 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Cable advice has been received by Bishop Lenihan, announcing the death of Bishop Murray, of Maitland, New louth Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Newton King, Miss King, Mr. Truby King, and Jlr. J. B. Conuutt and Miss Conne'tt returned to New Plymouth last night by the express. The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister of Public Health, left Wellington for South last night, to attend to Departmental matters in Christehurch and receive a deputation of fruit-growers i n his own electorate.—Press wire. A Christehurch Press Association telegram states that Mr. Orr Hay, the news of whose death at Gothenburg (Sweden) on June 28 has been received here, was ■born at Hutt, Wellington, in 1842, and brought to Pigeon Buy, Banks Peninsula, in 1843, by his father, the late Mr. Ebenezcr Hay. He lived there till 1008, when he went on an extended European tour. He went to visit some Finns in Finland, who had worked for him, and was oil his return when he contracted pneumonia. His father had established himself as a settler at Pigeon Bay prior to the arrival of the first four ships. Deceased married tne only daughter of the Rev. Dr. John Guthrie, of Edinburgh.