PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr J. If. McLean, .secretary of the Bonitlion Oil Company, arrived in New Plymouth last night." Mr. V. W. Fagmi. late, of Xow Ply. mouth, ami now of North Auckland, is on a visit to tho town.

Mr. H. .]. Atkinson, manager of the Hawera Gasworks, has resigned his position, acting under medical advice.

Mr 11. Stevens, of lnglewood. who met witli a trup accident a fortnight ago, is now nble to get about. He hopes to have fully recovered in the course of a few days. Teachers in the Feihling district are subscribing to a fund to purchase a headstone for the grave at Manaia of the late :Mr. W. 11. Vereker Bindon, Inspector of Schools under the Wanganui Education Board from 1884 to 1900. Mr 11. C-. Allsworth, formerly editor of the Stratford Post, and afterwards of the Taranaki Daily News, also chairman of the Taranaki Education Board, and Who for some time has been in business at Ohakune, has returned to New Plymouth to reside. Lady Harris, who, with her husband, a well-known English cricketer, visited Australia some years ago, is coming to Xew Zealand soon with her son, the Hon. R. Harris, who is a keen fisherman. They will probably spend most of their two months' visit at Taupo.

One of tho oldest .residents of Shannon, Mrs. Annie G'mgeU, passed away on Sunday at the age of eighty one. The deceased lady was the relict of the late Thomas Giiigell, and was a Shannon resident of twenty-three, years' standing. Mr. and .Mrs. Gingcll arrived in Wellington from England in December, 18711, in tho ship Hermione. Mrs. Gingoll, whose husband died in 1894, was a native 'of Gloucestershire. She left two sons and two daughters—Mr. T. H. Gingcll, 'of Eoxton, Mr. IS. 6. G'mgeU and Mrs. Nichol, .of Shannon, and Mrs. Cox, of Hnnnythorpe.' Three years before New Zealand was William El inn, then a boy four years old, arrived in the colony with his parents, last week he celebrated with Mrs. Klinn, at their home at Port Eitzroy, Great Barrier Island, the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding. From Sydney Mr. Elinn cv.me to Xew Zealand with his parents in 1837 in the brig Nimrod, which wa's engaged by llaron chief of Xew Zealand." The family settled in Hokianga, and was closely associated with many of the stirring scenes of. t,he early days. Two years later there arrived, from Tasmania in the Ariel ;> Mr. Truman, who brought with him his wife and only daughter. Miss Truman and Mr. Flinn were married in St, Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, on January (1, 1854. Mr. Elinn pursued his trade of pit-sawing, and in ISSO leased an area of land at Port Fitzroy from the Harbor and Mining Company, and remaining there with his wife, continued in the company's employ until its dissolution. He then acquired the freehold of the 2ftt) odd acres which ever since have been the home of himself and his wife.