PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. .1. Carthew, who for some time, past has boon living in Sydney, has returned to New Plymouth. A. London cable states that Lord Liang:; ttock has died of wounds in France. Alan Miller, secowi-lii'ut. in the Yorkshires, a son oi' tlin lute '.'lucf Postal Inspector of New Zealand, lias died of wounds. Sergeant .T. C. Nicholson (of Roy and Nicholson, solieitois, New Plymouth!, has been awarded a commission, and will leave with a later Reinforcement. The death occurred on Tuesday Inst of Mr. John Day, a farmer, of Uruti. at the age oi 7S years. The interment took place yesterday at the Te Heuui cemetery. Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.l'., for Tanmarunui, who has been lately touring his electorate, returned to New Plvmoulh by last evening's mail train. The many friends of his wife, who has been undergoing treatment in Auckland, will be pleased to learn that her health lias somewhat improved. A very old identity, Mrs. P. K. Slierman, passed away recently at Totara North, Whangaroa, at the age of 75. Mrs. .Sherman was born at the head of the Whangaroa Harbor in May. 1841, some months before the arrival of the first New Zealand colonists. Her mother died soon after Mrs. Sherman w.-u bom, and a Maori woman undertook the care of the child. She saw some ha'd times in her early days, and experienced many stirring events. She and a sister were at the Bay of Islands when Hoke's war broke out. Both were hastily sent to Whangaroa for safety in charge of some friendly natives. The sister, now Mrs. R. Bell, who is still living at Totara North, was bom at Whangaroa in ISJo, and attained her eightieth birthday a a few weeks ago. Mrs, Bell is probably the oldest child now living born oi Kuropoan parents in New Zealand. Their father, Mr. Henry 11. D. Snowdcn. was | a well-known trader in the Far North. Mrs. Sherman's descendants number upwards, of 143, namely, 10 children, !)0 I grandchildren, and upwards of 33 greatgrandchildren. Many of tlie grandsons are in the New Zealand forces, and within the last month one grandson has been killed and three others wounded in France.