PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 185, 15 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. Cut-field was elected chairman of the Fitzroy Town Board last night, vice Mr. L. Steele, resigned.

Mr. A. E. Collins and Mr. Nicholson were amongst the passengers for Auckland last night per Barawa.

A Press Association telegram from "Nelson states that Mr. Senn, chief postmaster, died about three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The ages of ten sons and daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. Crosley, living at Dovercourt (England), are 62, 03, 68, 70, 74, 76, 78, 82 and 84 years. A press message states that Mrs. .T. H. Richards, an old and well-known resident of the city of Nelson, died suddenly yesterday, aged 72 years. The Rev. S. S. Osborne, who has been minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, New Plymouth, for the past sixteen years, announced his resignation at Sunday's services. Mr. H. J. Hobbs, who has disposed of his business, left New Plymouth yesterday. Mr, G. Green has been appointed secretary of the Taranaki Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Society in his stead. The appointment of Dr. McArthur, S.M., as chairman of the North Island Railway Board of Appeal is gazetted. He is also gazetted chairman of Wellington and Hutt Licensing Committees. Mr. Charles J. Holworthy, whose wife, formerly Lady Buckley, died less than a fortnight ago, expired suddenly yesterday on returning from a walk. He had suffered from heart disease for some time.

Mr. Fred E. Hardy, the popular secretary of the New Zealand Axemen's Association, is reported to be making excellent progress at the New Plymouth Hospital, subsequent to an operation. The genial "Fred" lives in hopes of hearing the axes ring on the blocks at the big carnival at Eltham on Boxing Day.

Many old colonists will seem to be but recent arrivals when compared with Mrs. Ann Murphy, who died on Tuesday last at the ripe age of 86. It was on August 31, 1837, when she arrived at Hokianga in the brig Nimrod, at which time the northern settlement, as well as the whole of New Zealand, was in its infancy. Indeed, those were the days when the good people of Hokianga, as Mrs. Murphy was wont to tell, used to replenish their salt supply by going periodically to the seaside and camping there, and boiling and evaporating sea water. Mrs. Murphy had sixteen children, ten of whom have predeceased her. She le.aves six children, 50 grandchildren, 72 great-grand-children, and one great-great-grand-child.