PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

- J Air. (!. O'ReilU !.V, an old resident of this coast, whose home for many years had been Wawnl ey. died on Thursday. Dr. Peter Lab )r has .been appointed medical officei if the Military College at the Federal ca pitnl. The appointment is for twelve i lonths, and carries a salary of A:-i">Uj'pcr annum, with quarters. Dr. Liiloi graduated at the Melbourne Universi ;y a few years ago, and is a grandson of that Peter Lalor whose statue now s ,ands in sturt street, Ballarat.

The funeral /of the late Mrs. M. J. Macßuynolds,/who died on Wednesday, took place yektcrdiiy afternoon at Opunake. There! was a lengthy cortege, representatives from the whole countryside attending to pay their last mark of respect to tlfle deceased lady. Mr. MacReynolds, who has been a prominent member of f.oea,l bodies for many years, will have tWe Sympathy of the community in his ftad bereavement. The dcatjfti occurred at Inglewood yesterday of; Mr. Benjamin Nieholls, J.P., one of th« best known and most widely respected residents in the district. Deceased \yas for many years manager of the Mo/x Co-operative Society, afterwards ;purchasing the company's interests f and conducting the business in conjunction with his sons. He was a fine tyi.pe of citizen, of the strictest integrity, generous to u fault, and full of puh'lic spirit. His demise will be regretted by a large circle of friends.

Mr.; S. CI. Millington, gaoler at H.M. Prisoiji, Wellington, who died on Thursday, was a native of Devonshire, and j,oined the Justice Department in 1878 ias assistant warder at Lyttelton. He became principal warder at Mount Cook in ISB2, and chief warder at Terrace Gaol in 100:1. Three years later he was transferred to New Plymouth as gaoler, and in 1908 was made manager 0:' the prison reformatory in this district. Mr. Millington was appointed gaoler at Wellington in 1909. He leaves a widow and seveu children.

Mr. R. C. L. Reay, who died at Wairoa on Saturday, aged seventy-two, arrived in Auckland in 1842, and then proceeded to Nelson, where his father was stationed by Bishop SeJwyn as the first Anglican clergyman. On his father's death Mr. Reay returned Home, and after completing his schooling joined the navy and served in the South Seas on a survey vessel. He afterwards settled in this colony, where he undertook surveys for the Government at Waiuku, Waitara, and all over the Waikato. He joined the survey wtafT and was kept constantly employed at. among other places, the Chatham' Islands, Tanranga, Opotiki, Rotorua, Taupo, Maketu, Whakatane. and at Wairoa, H.B. Resigning his appointment on the survey staff Mr. Reay settled at Tauranga, but after the Tarawera eruption he came down to Wairoa, where he completed many surveys, the most important of which was (says the Guardian) the topographical survey of the southern portion of "Tnhoe Land."