PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 123, 11 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Hon. J. Marshall, M.L.C., died at his home, Totara Flat, at G. 30 oa Wednesday j night. He had been ailing for some time ' past.—Press Association. After 20 years' service as clerk of the Waitotara County Council, Mr. H. E. Dymock is retiring for a well-earned rest. Failing eyesight has induced him to take this step. Mr. Heffer, a very old resident of Nelson, passed away at her residence jast < week, having reached the advanced age of 85. Deceased, who was born in the Limehouse parish, London, came of a long line of seafaring people, and she.followed the family traditions by marrying Captain John Heffer (an old schoolfellow) iu 1850. When £aptain Heffer decided to bring out the steamer Nelson, Mrs. Heffer accompanied him on a memorable voyage, which occupied many months. Mrs. Heffer was the first white woman to visit the West Coast. Captain Heffer died on October 10, 1879, being at the time Superintendent of the Nelson Asylum.

Mr. J. B. W. Craig, M.A.. son of Mr. John Wilson Craig, of Napier, died at Dunedin on Monday, in his twenty-third year. He had (says the Herald) a very brilliant scholastic career, and promised to do well on a wider He wa* a student of the Napier Bova' High School, • which he quitted in 1908, in which year he was dux. Proceeding to Otago University he took the first section of tke B.A. degree in 1900 with the McGregor prize in logic. The next year he passed the final section of the degree, taking the university senior scholarship in mental science. ' Last year he passed the M.A. degree with first-class honors _ in mental science. He was at once appointer tutor of the matriculation class at Knox College, Dunedin, and carried on that work until he was stricken down by the illness under which he succumbed.

The death occurred "at the Palmerston'North Hospital on Sunday, at the age of 73 years, of Mr. Thomas George Dewar, reports the Manawatu Standard. Deceased was well known iu the Matau Block, near Inglewood, having been one of the first to acquire land in that block, where he resided 'for "twenty yeaiie. About three years ago he- underwent an operation,,and ever since (has been practically an invalid, living with 'hie eon, Mr. Thomas Dewar, of Taonui street. The immediate cause of death was bronchitis, consequent on old age. Mrs. Dewar predeceased her husband some three years ago. Five sons and three daughters are left to mourn their .loss. The sons are Messrs. Thomas Dewar (Palmerston North), Charles, Artimr, and Ernest {Taranaki), and the daughters Mrs. J. ■ N l . Langman (Pohokura), Mrs. R. 'Adams (Ohura, Main Trunk line), and Mrs. A. Richardson (Marlborough). '.