PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 30 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. T. Norris, of Wellington, auj| I old Taranaki boy, is spending & fev ; i ! days in New Plymouth. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught, < who returned to England from South < Africa on Tuesday, were welcomed at'-f Victoria Station. The Rev. P. B. Fraser, general superinisj tendent of home missions for the Presr|' : byterian Church ; has decided to take up--1 residence with his family in Feilding. Mr. J. G. Harkness, accompanied by .1 Mrs. Harkness, left for London yester-SI day on his mission to investigate th# 1 ?! Home end of the dairy produce industry. Mr. L. M. Tansey, assistant clerk in the Dunedin Magistrate's Court, and '*! formerly of New Plymouth, has been promoted to the position of Clerk of thefl Court at Cromwell. : : ; m

Among the passengers by the Marama.-t| to Wellington on Wednesday was Mia» Mary Laverty, daughter of Mrs. Gow, Sydney, who recently came into " aa'(3 estate worth seven million dollars 400,000) iby .the death, of- a relative in.'.-; New York. Miss Laverty is visiting friends previous to going to live in New; York.

A bedding of some interest to Ha* t wera residents was solemnised at Dua> edin recently, the contracting partiee-'J being Mr. Frank D. Sargent, third sbri'f'l °f. Mr- R* W. Sargent, of Hawcra, and Miss Dora Morrison, of Dunedin. The .v.] Misses Morrison and Sargent were thqi' f> bridesmaids, and Mr. Hanna, of Christ-!* church, was best man. ' , 'The death is reported from Napier of£si Mrs. Williams, wife of Mr. F. W. wjw , «8| liams, of Williams and Kettle, aged fifty-three years, after a painful illness. The deceased was a daughter of' y 5' B formerly manager,,' of the Bank of New Zealand in Napier*t]!B She took an active part in the manage*' ".JS ment of the Napier Children's Home, . ! the Queen's Fund, and other work of similar nature. 71

The Right Hon. George William Pal* ;;'j mer, P.C., of the biscuit manufacturing , J nrm of Huntley and Palmer, aceoin-' J pamed by his wife, is due to arrive at vl the Bluff on Monday next from England; via Melbourne. The visitor, who w«S .J created a Privy Councillor in 1906, is ail ill alderman of the Borough of Reading, of- ' si which he was Mayor in ISBB-9. He member of Parliament (Liberal) for&i Reading from, 1898 to 1(904, [ M Lieutenant Vivian Brandon, R.N., and -if Captain Bernard Frederick Trench, were found guilty of espionage by the 3jf imperial Court at Leipsig and to four years 'confinement in a fortress; !! I are well-known British officers. Lieuten'-'- Ji ant Brandon is the brother-in-law of Sit#ll William Bull, M.P., has a brother on the'. ;•» bounty Council, and is a of Mrs. Clement Scott, Mrs. Lewis Walr ■•ll ler, and Lady Arthur. Captain TrenclUvS belongs to a well-known Irish family, of $9 which Lord Ashtown is the head. Tha/' iS Daily News mentions an interesting facial namely,. that Captain. Trench was otf -''a board the cadet ship Cumberland when,-SI about two years ago, she steered into"''J Kiel Harbor in a dense fog without thp tJH aid of, a pilot, and her officers were per***''s§ sonally congratulated by the German 'jf Emperor on periorming a hitherto un-■heard-of feat. 4 t , M

The late Mr. Robert Martin, whose J death was announced recently, was tf H native of Norfolk, a grandson of the late'' § Rev. Robert Steele, rector of Mundsay v -5 and Tringham, of that county,' and a. '« great-grandson of the late Sir Richard Steele, Bart., of • Dublin. Deceased was' educated' at the North Walsham Grammar School (well-known as Lord Nelson's ySS School), and finished his course at St.£p John's College, Hfrstpier Point, Susaox. v . On leaving school he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits,- but he had ■'l not been employed in that manner before the decided to try his fortune itt'< ft New Zealand, He arrived in Wellington by the ship, Queen of the Avon'in 1859,. '4 After fpur years spent in gaining ex-" "*ljf perience he established himself in busi-xj ness as a hou.se decorator, -which business .« has grottn up with the city. The late '<-f Mr. Martin, who had always been esteemed as a, citizen and an employer, .+1 left a widow, five daughters, and two:M sons (fpur of whom are married). There -jJ are eleven grandchildren. '

Mr. Herbert T. Marsh, an old Wairarapa identity, is dead, aged sixty-seven ''■% years. He was a native of Cork, a land, and landed in Melbourne in 1856. v Coming to New Zealand, he joined' the ■ Defence Force, and served through the ;fj Waikato war. Later on, during Hau Haiu troubles, he enrolled in thaaSl Hawke's Bay volunteers, under Captain ,'irl Biggs, and witnessed some strenuous fighting on the East Coast, being pres- ;| ent in the capture of Waeranga-a-hijca pa, and in the engagement at Te Miiru ■;! Muru. Settling in Wairoa, Mr. Marsh '0 was appointed Sergeant-Major of the dis- 'J trict. ,the Te Kooti rebellion, •. Mr. Marsh again saw active service, un- Kj* der Captains Richardson and Spiller. i He was transferred to No. 1 Division of ;|j the Armed Constabulary, in which Ihe'-'v'lp served until , finally discharged in 1871.; *4* He also served under Colonel Herjick an 'WW the Waikaremoana campaign. His total' iif] services embraced a period of nearly - q ten years, for which he was awarded thp . New Zealand war medal arid the Vet- '■s erans' Cross. -v a]