PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 27 August 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Ml'. R. Jx'e was yesterday re-elected chairman of the Wellington Education Hoard.—Press wire.

The lion, J. Carroll, acting-Premier, returned to AVellington from the North oil Wednesday night, and will remain there till the session commences. Cabinet will soon fix the actual date.

Mr. Ewen MacDonnell, who joined the police force at Dunedin in 1875, was promoted a sub-inspector ill 1800. and inspector in 1000, died at 'Petoue oil Wednesday night. Deceased retired from the service on December .11 last. > The death is reported of Mr. J. A. Petrie, who for three years was Mayor of Greyniont.li, and wa.s one of the bestknbwn business men on the West Coast. His wile prt-necensed him four years ago. lie. leaves two sons, Mr. Allan Petrie, who is studving for the Church, and Mr. Kennetii Petrie, a dentist of Geraldine.

i the death occurred list week at llunibv, Canterbury, of Mr. U. M. Horl™, aged SO veins.' lie wi-ut to Victoria liHv years liiillit- a .^t av lasniania, and in JS(>U came 10 Canterbury, settling at liakaia as a sheep, larmcr. Subsequently (savs the LvUi<:. lon Tunes) he acquired the magniiic-.it "luck of 1)000 acres of hill property' Known as the and While j{o,-k runs. One of his earliest investment* in Canterbury was the site of the present United .Service Hotel, the fiuc build- I mg which he erected on it bei»«r ion" I k?iown as ''.Morten's Block." Thuf buihf j mg is gaid to have cost £30,1)00. |

Mrs. Simeon, wife of Mr Fred P -Simeon, died at Wellington vcstcrdav' agei| (I,) years (states a Press message'), pneoased was n half-caste and well known among Maoris as "Knrakitiro." !')id also as "Akauihi." She was a ""7" r <^i. v !> "f "le late chiefs Tonu iM le \\ lull. For many years she had of great assistance to (lie Xativ •••" < 'rnrts in unravelling intricate of lier iptimate KnowlilM>l, S 0 of Taraual;i ins||m w;is limn at Te Awainuln. m the district. Her grandlather was a noted tohuuga. liesides j the widower, she leaves a family of tea. Sir Charles Lucas and .Mr. A. A. Pearson, tlie representatives of the Colonial Office who have been touring Australia lor the past four or five months, started «ui I heir homeward journey from Sydney on 17th August, when they left bv the steamer Atua from Fiji. At Suva they will join the Vancouver mail steamer, and proceed to England Jirough CaTiaJa. When seen prior to i heir departure both gentlemen repeated what they had said often before—that 1 '.hey were precluded by their official obligations from expressing nnv oninions—hut Sir Charles Lucas added that he and his colleague would particulaCy like to say how very grateful they wore to the GovemuienU and people of Australia. for making them so very welconp. 'ihey had, he said, gaiii"d a Ivge' amount of information and experience, of iNe not only lo themselves, but to Wie Colonial Ofliee, and they would carry back with them a very warm feeling 'W nflection for Australia and the Australians.