PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL.

.- -» . A cable message from Brisbane reports the death of Mr. Ilailey, Government Botanist. An Adelaide cablegram says that Mr, Peake has been elected leader of tha Opposition, and a Brisbane message say« Mi'. .Macartney was elected leader of the. Opposition. I-'arrier-Scrgeant W. E. 'Hawke, late of Urnti, who was last week reported as being in the Pout de Kubbch Hospital, Cairo, has cabled that he has been' ill with pneumonia, and is now convalescent. At the Roman Catholic Church at Manaia on Wednesday, Mr. 1). Ryan, eldest son of the late Mr. John Ryan, was married to Miss Katie Franklin, youngest daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. M. Franklin. 4 | Louis Hill, who has been reported as killed in action, was the only son of the late Fred Hill, formerly of Hawera. He was 28 years of age and well known in sporting circles.. He leaves two sisters—Mrs. Fred Cooper, of Mastcrtoi], and Mrs. J. Munro, Napier. John McMullen, a member of the C5tK Regiment, which participated in tha Maori war, died at the Veterans' Home, Auckland, on Monday, He arrived in New Zealand with his regiment hi 1840, and took his discharge in 1805. Since then he had resided in Auckland. The funeral took place at Te Henui Cemetery on Thursday of the late Mrs. Harlin, of Hawera. Deceased, who was an old Taranakl settler, was in her, eighty-eighth year, and left a grown-up family of four daughters, Mrs. B. Fox,' New (Plymouth; Mrs. \V. Richdale, Dunedin; Mrs. W. J. Graham and Mrs. T. Gomer, Hawera, and two sons to mourn their loss. The popularity of Mr. Dixon, who has for some time held the position of postmaster at Manaia, and is now being transferred to another post ofiiee, has been evidenced -tfy the number of presentations made to him and Mrs. Dixon. On Thursday he received from the leading members of the business community an artistic and suitably framed address expressive of their appreciation ot his many useful services. Mrs. Dixon was presented with a silver cruet, and Miss Dixon with a pair of flower vases. News was received in Auckland on Tuesday of the death at Shioya, Japan, of Mr. Edward Brendon Parsons, who for -11' years was secretary of the Auckland Gas Company. Mr. Parsons was born at Launceston, Cornwall, England, and was educated at Plymouth. In 1862 he left London for New Zealand on the ship Devonshire, and landedjit Auckland on February 7, 1803. Tho late Mr. Parsons, who had passed his 80th year, is survived by three sons—Mr. Arthur Parsons, manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company in Perth; Mr. Edward Parsons, manager of the British Dominioils General Insurance Company in the East; and Mr. William Parsons, engineer to the Colonial Sujrar Refining Company in Australia— and two daughters—Mrs. Paton, wifo of Mr. J. Paton, of New Plymouth, and Miss Parsons, who was with her father ill Japan.