PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Word was received in Hawera yeoter day that Private Andrew Coleman ha? been wounded in the shoulder. ' Sergeant-Major J. C, Brook, formerly of Messrs. Roy and Nicholson's »t*ff, New Plymouth, has been selected for a commission, and is returning to New Zealand.

A Vancouver message states .tliftt the Australian and New Zealand members of (he Parliamentary party have arrived there en route home, having, travelled through Canada.

Captain B, F. C. Scott, roported wounded in yesterday's casualty list, wa» formerly in the money-order department I of the New Plymouth Post Office. , He went away with the Sixth Reinforce- • incuts as a lieutenant, and was promoted to a captaincy in France. Mrs. Crann, of Gover Street, received »• telegram yesterday from tlifl Hon. J. Allen, informing her that her son, Gunner F. J. R. Crann, was .wounded in the side on September 15, Before enltoiog (■tanner Crann was In the employ of Mr. J. McNeil, grocer,' of New Plymouth,

Advice was received yesterday by a relative in New Plymouth that Privatt fl. 0. Evetts, of the 13th Reinforce, inents had been wounded in France. Beloie enlisting lie was one of the staff of the Now Plymouth Post Office letter carriers. '

In yesterday's Roll of list appear among other names, those of Privates Augustus Potroz (next-of-kin, A. Potrpz, father, Waitara) died, of wounds; anl Private Geo. Hnslett (G. Iliislett, Junction Road, Inglewood, father) wounded nnd admitted to hospital.

An old resident of Palmerston North, in the person of Mr. J. W. De Blote, dIM there hst week at the ago of 72 years, i Deceased,, many years ago, was employed on the stair of the New Plymouth gaol, and left here to take up the position nf health inspector for the Palmerston Borough Council.

Tli? death occurred at Napier oa Sunday (•< Mr. Frederick Brndshaw, who has resi.iod in Napier during the past 26 years. TV' deicased, who was aged 50, e.ime to New Zen land about 36 years ago, nr.d iirst :.it.tlec! in Ashbrirton He was very well Known; and leaves a widow, five daughters, ai;i three sons. A complimentary valedictory social •vas tendered to tlie Rev. J. R. Shore at ',' ie Hawera Presbyterian Hall on Tuesday evening. The Rev, P. f Molvor (Wsverley), who presided, spoke eulogistically of Mr. Shore's connection wiv'i the Taranaki Presbytery, and.wished Mr. and Mrs. Shore continuous happinen, <tnd prosperity. The Mayor paid a warm tribute of praise to Mr. Shore as a citizen, and thanked him for his splendid work in Hawera, and the Revs. C. H. (Jrant Cowen (Anglican) and E.. 0. Blainires (Methodist) endorsed the " remarks of the previous speakers. ( On behalf of tha congregation, Mr, Halliwill presented Mr. Shore with ft purse oi sovereigns, and the recipient feelingly rcnlicd.

A correspondent writes;—On Monday, 25th inst., after a long and painful illness, borne with wonderful patience and fortitude, Mrs. Ruth Calvert Corney, one i.i' the earliest and most respected of the Moa. district settlers, ipassed peacefully away to her rest at her home, Durham road, Moa, where, with her Kiisband, Mr. Ivo Corney, she had lived fo: the last 8!) years. Sixty years to th< day before her death Mr. and Mrs. Corney then boy and girl, parted on the railway station at Halifa.v, Yorkshire, England. Nearly ten years later Mrs. Corney, then Miss Radelifl'e, came to Taranaki, and on June 7, 1866, was married to Mr. Corncv at New Plymouth. After nearly eleven years spent in the earlier settled parts of Taranaki she cams with her I usban'd aityl six children to what was at that time veritably the Ultima Thule of the province and cheerfully faced all the privations and hardships inseparable from a pioneer's life in the Moa Block of those days. The family settled on the land that Mr. Corney had taken up at Durham road, about two miles south of Tnglewood. Here they made their homo and reared their family, and here Mrs. Corney passed to her rest as above stated, leaving her husband and family of three daughters and six son? to cherish her memory. Mrs. Coroey's advent to the Moa Block was most opportune fop some of the pioneer families who had already taken up their abode in the diSf triet, for they were nearly all new arrivals in New' Zealand and wholly without experience of the exigencies .of pioneer life in the bu. k h, and there ari many, mother; of families to-day who will grato*ully recall her cheerful'" encouragement when times were at their worst and all looked black ahead. In fact, to know Mr*. Corner was a privilege indeed, ai I by all who Jiad that privilege warm sympathy with the bereaved familv will suredly be felt.