PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 219, 16 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lord llochdalu is a paßSi-nger bv the Maunganui, which left Sydney on Saturday for Nuw Zealand. Mr Hraluim, a London journalist, succeeds Mr Ward as editor of the Sydney Tclegraph.-Sydney cablegram. A Washington cablegram state* thit the- engagement is announced of .Vr William MeAdoo, Secretary te the Treasury, t- Miss Eleanor Wilson, the l'r -i' l t nt'i youngest daughter. The death' occurred at .Mangamuttt on Tuesday night of Mr. John Dean, senr., at the age of seventy years. Th« deceased was formerly in business il Wanganui, Foxton and Woodville. Mr C. H. Davy, inventor of the nonrefillable bottle, for which a New Plymouth company was recently formed, leaves New Plymouth by the'mail traim this morning, en route for England, to exploit his patent on behalf of the oompa»y.

A London cablegram reports that Mr. Henry St. George will again be the New Zealand examiner for the Trinity College of Music in 11114. Last year Mr. St. George gave a musical recital in New Plymouth, and music lovers will be glad to renew his acquaintance.

Mrs. Ann Boyce, who passed away at Vlolucka on February 28, arrived in New Zealand ill 1837 with her parents, whosettled at Cloudy Bay. In 1842 she was married to Captain William Boyct bv the Rev. Samuel Ironsides (one ot the earliest Taranaki Wesleyan ministers), the marriage being celebrated some few months previous to the Wairau masaedc. At tho time of .this sad catastrophe there were several whaler* residing at Cloudy Bay, together with Captain Boyce and his wife, Mr. Cavi (the father of Mrs. Boyce) and other women. Immediately after the massacres several Maoris went to Cloudy Bay, at the sight of whom all the whalers decamped in the boats, 'fearing the deceased lady, her husband ant' her father at the mercy of the natives, who, however, did them no harm. The de-' ceased and her husband remained at Cloudy Hay until 1547, when they removed to Nelson with their two children. Captain Boyce predeceased his wife by about twenty years. The lata Mrs. Boyce was the mother of thrrteeo children, ten of whom are still living. She also leaves 52 grandchildren, 70 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.