PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

«t» iR mi... Mr. P. Selig, of the ctfletchurou Ptm, has been elected chairman of the Vtm Association. A London cable announce* the death of Dr. Martin, the organist of St. Paul's Catliedral. Captain A. M. MacDiarmid, of N«w ri7molK.lt, has been appointed to cor*, mand of E, Company, 14th Reinforcements. The Military Records Office U advised by cable that Sister Helena M. Newton is dangerously ill, from enteric fever, in the Anglo-American Hoepital at Cairo.—Press Association. The Dunedin correspondent of theLyttelton Tiaaes states that Mr. Mareitt Marks, Haisard supervisor, is to succeed Mr. John Mackay a; Government Printer. Miss M. C. Terry (of New Plymouth), now on the staff of the Stratford Hiffi School, has received advice from the TJni- . versity that she ha* gained the degree cl 1 Master of Science with first-class honou. News has been received in Wellington or tlie death of Mr. Thomas Stbut, M.A,, P.L., solicitor, of Glasgow, cousin ef Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zealand. The late Mr. Stout lost nil son in the fightis? i* Flanders abeut tire months ago. The death eccurred yesterday »f Mrs. Elizabeth Tunnecliffe, ef Kent Road. The late Mrs. Tunnecliffe, whe was 88 years of age, was the widew ef the late Mr. Geo. Tunnecliffe, and she had reside! in the district for some sixty year*. She leaves a son and two daughters. Mr. F. W. 0. McLeod, L.T.S., who fer some tine past has held the position of bandmaster of the Ipswich City Viepregal Band—the champion brass band ol Queensland —lias accepted the position Of bandmaster of the New Plymouth' Citizen's Band. Mr. McLecd," during-the time lie has had charge of the Ipswich Band, has been particularly successful, and lie is very highly spoken of by <a number of prominent New Zealand musicians who have met him and heard his band. He expects to leave Aqt> tralia about March 7. Sergeant W. R. Richardson, wild Wtj» killed in action on December 23, was chief accountant for Dalgety and Co, at Auckland when he enlisted ill the Sixth Reinforcements for the Auckland Mounted Rifles. He was educated |t Wellington College, and after some years' service in a banking, institution, qualified as an accountant. He eßlere* the employment of Dalgety and Ca„ *"*4 was afterwards transferred to the Auckland branch. Sergeant Richardson actei as secretary of the Auckland Woolbrofcera' Association. He was about 28 yean of age. At a sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Westport on Tuesday,, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., on behalf of himself and the officers of the Court, said that they were sorry to lose Mr. McDonald, for His personal attendance as well as the lots of his experience in assisting the bust* ness of the Court. At the same time they felt glad of his appointment to the responsible office of a member ef the Board of Trade, where lie would he able to make use of his undoubted talent* on subjects which he had' well studied and of .which he had made a hobby for some years. Mr. Cottrell also spoke on Behalf of the Bar, and Mr. McDonald' ackaowledged the compliments, v A Press Association message from Wellington yesterday stated that E. Sutherland, an apprentice on the Aparima, stepson of Captain Wa(ler, of New Ply meuth, had been killed on the AparimaThis is wrong. It wae Arthur Hoi Waller, youngest son of GaptaW and Mrs. Waller, of Moturoa, who w»» killed; The deceased only joined the Aparima a few weeks ago, and lie was found dead on the steamrt- a few hours after the vessel left Dunedin for Wellington on Tuesday. Apparently he liad been killed outright by being struck on the head by a wire tug rope while looking out of a porthole. He wa» a promising'pupil and popular boy at % Higlt, "4 the family will havejreneral sympathy in their sad loss. The : 'body will lie brought to New Plymouth to-night,, and the funeral takes place at Te Henul Cemetery to-morrow afternoon. . Mrs. Uhlenberg, whose death at the age of 98 was announced on Tuesday, was a native of Poland, and came out to this country in. the New Zealand Shipping Co.'s sailing ship Orari in l«t9, the voyage from Plymouth occupying seventeen weeks. From Lytteltot) the family sailed for New Plymouth, binding there in surf boats before fhe'era of the breakwater. Proceeding immediately to York road, farming pursuits were taken up, and there the pioneer remained till her death. Her husband rd her by thirteen years, but there is a family of four daughters (Mrs. Schumaker, Midhirst; Mrs. Neill, Bay of Plenty, Mrs. Jane, New PlymontK," and Miss Uhlenberg, .who lived with' her mother at home), and one son (Mr. A. Uhlenberg), together with ahout fifty grandchildren, left to mourn their loss of the deceased. When the family settled in Taranaki a bov of ten year* of age was Mr. A. Uhlenberg, and lie speaks with interest of the condition nf things precvailing nt that time. All was bush, and there were 110 ench'thlnpt as roads or culverts. The bush we* everywhere being felled, and the roads were made of rata tree', over which the settlers and their families had to climb when they wished to go to market. They came to Stratford 'for their nwat, groceries and drapery, and Oiiffrhrlroi. were in full swing, to be followed later by Mr. Joe Mnlree. Ilallast traln< rsit as far as the Mangnnui bridge at tV. time," and sometimes the- railwayman used to convey the goods along the line, throwing off the bundles into the s»ruh as they passed along. "As often a' not,'' said Mr. T'blenberg '-'it was a cimiof not being able- to And them again! At other times we 'lumped goods upon our backs from Stratford houie."-VPo»t.