PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 42, 10 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Airs. J. Hartley wok riven a send-off and *i-\-,.. A . ,' , g the Rotokare -and Fraw near JElthatn, or. the eye of Hie , i, ,/ nig for New Plymouth, whom they are taking up their residence. A Press Association telegram from Bmaru announces the death of Mrs Andrew Bearnett, wife of *he origX lessee of the Mount Cook station, £k« «P just ove r iifty yearn > lt *™ b«n m the hands of the family X ' Miss Formby, the victim of the railway accident at Feilding on Saturday, was a lady of high education, She had travelled extensively, having visited many foreign countries. As far as m known, deceased had no relations in New Zealanl The death is announced of Mr. Robbert Wallace, formerly of M-.inge.ri;, at the age of eighty-six years. Mr. Wallace was one of the three brothers who took up land in Mangere as far back as 1857. For many yeaiw the deceased farmed on the shores of the Manaka.i but latterly had been livin- in \i mn ' Eden, his change of re:-,:\l,"n< : , U.r„-> J u to failing health. Fo v over twenty vearhe served on the Mangi-iv i :>w ;t (i and took <a great inter-; in'ail t). a ' concerned the welfare o.' the district * Another of New l v h-n<f,;iii ; « M r'v settlers passed away early yesterday mormng, in the person of Mr. G. £ •0 Bricn, in his 77th year. The late Mr.' U Bricn was a captain in the Imperial Army (the Horseguards) and came out to New Zealand in the early days In -April, 1876, he was appointed governor And gaoler of the Auckland prison. He remained there for some yeara and- was subsequently transferred to Itfttelton and other places, and Jater to New Plymouth. Mr. O'Brien continued to act as gaoler here until his retirement e - g \T ye S s ago - He •»• **» resided in New Plymouth, where he ww well known and held in high Meem hy a large circle of friends. He leaves a widow and grown-up family of few sons and six including Mrs' T. U Buxton (New Plymouth), firs. T. iv Thompson (Wangamii), and Miss O-Bnen, matron of the Stratford Boepi-