PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr H. V. Searle. B.Sc., the new mas* ter at too Boys' High School, who fills> the position made vacant by Mr V. J. B. Hall going to the front, has arrived totake nip his duties. A Sydney cablegram states that Mon* .signor Cerritti, papal delegate to Am* tralasia, arrives by the Ventura on Monday. Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P. for Taunuv runui, has been informed that his son, Mr. Harold W. Jennings, has been appointed a lieutenant in the Koyal Meld" Artillery, and is now training at Woolwich. The death is announced of another of New Zealand's pioneers, in the person of Mrs. James Wilson, who passed away at Wanganui on Sunday, at the age of 80 years. [The decea'sed lady, who | was a native of Scotland, came out iO' this country immediately after her marriage, landing in Dunedin in 1882. They resided in Otago for 12 years and in.' 1874, came to Wanganui," engaging in farming in the Kai Iwi and Westmeredistricts. t . j^ A telegram from Gore yesterday reported the death at Mataura of one of Southland's earliest pioneers. Mr Hugh Cameron, aged eighty, was bom at Loth Bannock, Scotland, and sailed in the ship Star of the East for Sydney. He transferred to Otago in ]B.>4, settling at Wyndham about 1866. Ho settled later in Mataura, acquiring the accommodation house and later Cameron's Hotel. He was identified with the Town BoarJ "nd Borough Council, being Mayor of Mataura in 1897 and 1902. He was oneof the party who walked from Dunedin; to Invereargil] to pay the purchase money to the Maoris for the Murihukir Block. He married a daughter of Mr Duncan Bain, of Blueskin, in 1889. He leaves his widow, four daughters, all of ,vhom are married, and five sons, three of whom arc serving in Egypt.