PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 254, 6 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sydney reports the death of Sir Francis Nuttor, of heart-failure,, He attwdnA the opening of the Royal, on Wednesday, but afterwards collapsed. I'fia condition at the time was not thoacht oritaal.

One of the oldest residents and pio-. naer farmers of tiip Ashburton County. Mr. James Brown, died at his home. Nethcrby," in the Wakanui .district,' ast week, at the age of 81 year* Hehad been farming in the district for over forty years. He was keenly interested in general politics, and for- many vmhii took an active part in the local affairs of the district. He leaves a grvmm.upfamily of sons and daughters.

A colonist of over fifty years' standing in the person of Mr.'W. H. Bent!— died on Wednesday at tlno Slater Miaericordiae Private Hospital, Auckland, at the advanced age of 76 years, after * comparatively; short illness. T6 e deceased, wlio was respected by a larjj# circle of friends, arrived in Auckland by the sailing ship Queen of Beauty ill 18®. fifty-two yearn ago, and for the greater portion of the time waß a resident of Auckland', Mr. Bentley was an old Gotcrnment employee, having been in tho service of the Lands and Survey Department up to within a short period of his death. He is survived fey a widow and' two sons and' one. daughter.