PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 117, 3 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cablegram from Ottawa states that Corbett, the pugilist, is dying from peritonitis.

A London cablegram states that RearAdmiral R. E. Krskine succeeds RearAdmiral H. G. King-Hall in command of the battle squadron. Mr. W. A. W. Grenfell, secretary of the Wellington Employers' Association, is attending the Arbitration Court, sittings in New Plymouth. The death occurred at Palmerston North on Saturday, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. T. L. Porter, of Mr. Charles Basil Montagu, eldest son of the late Mr. Charles Parr Montagu (barrister at-law), and great grand-son of the fourth Earl of Sandwich. The deceased was 78 years of age. The funeral is to take place at Hawera.

Mr. Robert M. Houston, ex-M.P. for Bay of Islands, died at Mangonui on Friday, at the age of 70 years. Mr. Houston was born in County Down, Ireland, and was educated at Belfast Academy and at Queen's College, Belfast. He was attracted to New Zealand, and arrived at Lyttolton on the ship Canterbury on January 10, 1864. Six months afterwards he went to Auckland, and after acting in the capacity of school teacher at Whangarei and Otara, took up storekeeping at Mangonui. During his residence in the district he acted as chairman of various local bodies, included in which was a term of 24 years as chairman of the Mangonui County Council. In 1891 Mr. Houston entered Parliament as member for the Bay of Islands electorate, which he represented until bis retirement in 1908. He was for fifteen years chairman of the Native Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, resigning in 1900 owing to I ill-health.

Another of Inglewood's earliest settlers has been called "across the bar" in the person of Mrs. Tilly, relict of the late Mr. Tilly, after a long and painful illness (states the Record). Mr. and Mrs. Tilly were, amongst Inglewood's very earliest settlers. They were married in London in 1854, and left shortly afterwards for Sydney, and in the following year went to Dunedin, where they lived until 1873; then they went to New Plymouth and later to Inglewood. Her husband died twenty-five years ago, while her eldest son, Thomas, was drowned, at the age of 30. whilst bathing in the Maketawa. river. The late Mrs. Tilly leaves a grown-up family of two son's and three daughters to mourn the loss of an affectionate and revered mother. Of the sons, John has always had his home with his mother, and William is settled in Auckland; and of the daughters, Mrs. John Rowe and Mrs. W. H. Franklyn are resident in Inglewood, and Miss Louisa is in Wellington.