PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 105, 26 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. I!. W. Bond, engineer to tti« Weber County Council, who haa been en a brief visit to New iTOturas this morning. The death of Mrs. Mary Hunter, oJ Dunedin, at the age of 94, is announced. Mrs. Hunter was one of Otago's pioneers, having arrived in the immigrant ship Pladda in 1861. ~ The death is announced of Mr Andrew Harper, waterworks engineer to the borough of Invercargill. In 1883, he went to Port Chalmers from Scotland by the ship Trevelyan, and settled in Invercargill, whero he was employed in the Vulcan foundry for eight years, (during the greater part of that time he was foreman. Mr Harper left this position to become waterworks overseer, a position which he held since 1891.

The death occurred on Thursday of Mr Thomas North, one of Wellington's old identities. Born at Jours Hill, New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, on February 6, 1827, he followed the sea for a calling. He became chief officer of the ship Abby Donbrody, and was engaged in the year 1848, at the time of the great famine in Ireland, carrying emigrants to> New York and other parts of America. Afterwards he became master of the same ship, which belonged to the firm of Messrs Greaves and Co., Liverpool. Arriving in Melbourne in the Bhip Maga Bolla, he was seized by the gold fever, and was present at the big rushes at Bendigo. In 1854 he arrived in Wellington, and was for a number of years connected with the Panama Shipping Company as chief stevedore. Retiring from this company, he became owner of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Tory Street. H» leaves a family of five son 3 and two daughters. Mr James Lornax died on Sunday ftfc Wanganui, aged ninety-two. Mr Lornax, who was a native of London, emigrated to New Zealand when a young man. He was married in the Auckland Islands in 1849, the official celebrant being Sir Charles Enderby, whose nam* was well known in the whaling day*. Two years later Mr Lomax went to Wanganui and resided continuously in that district for the sixty-three years that elapsed. For thirty-three years h* followed forming pursuits at Kaitoke and Scdgebrook, and since then lived in retirement. Mr Lomax. whose wife predeceased him some seven months ago, left five sons and four daughters—Messrs James P. Lomax, of Otaki; Charles Lomax, of Sydney; William Lomax, of TeHding; Harry iP. Lomax, of Auckland; and Percy B. Lomax, of Wanganui; and Mrs A. E. Exley, of Wellington, Mrs Oathro, of Wanganui; Mrs. M. Cottle, of Stratford; and Miss Lomax, of Wanganui.