PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr E. Whittle leavea«thjd jDJijirn4nig>(b>| .-thcvmail .train on-a-short visit 'to'Christ'i church.

A resident of Auckland for 85 years, Mr Arthur Tilly, died a few years ago, aged 69. Mr Tally arrived in Afldfltod in the ship Queen of Beauty in 1563. The Iter, Bouraeman Neal, who! had been in Auckland on furlough frail France, has been appointed military, chaplain to the New Zealand forces -in Egypt, and has arrived in "Wellington. , Mr. J. W. EEiis, Mayor of HsanJlfrni, died on Tuesday morning. Se Vas the first Mayor of the-araaJgHpntod bartJttgfos of Frankton Junction and Hamilton. Mr A. Saw©]], BA., assistant mosSsii at the Wellington College, h*S ban* appointed to a position as master Jrt Nelson College- Do takes up duties-yearly an September. One of Waverley's oldest andUfflißßitj highly respected settlers passed f#itba Great Beyond on Sunday in the pension of Mr. George C. Boss. Tlhe deceased, who was 69 years of age, had been in' indifferent health (for some itome past sunt the end was not altogether unespeSted. He leaves a widow end £ve-cMld»cn,*»M( daughters and three-eons,-one-of the Hat* *er being at presentnvHh-the , 'N.Z.Rwoe«in France.—Jsress.

Mr. Colin Cainiplbel], wfajo>diedfc at. the Bunedin Hospital on Stotmxl«y [ixstet graphs our wrrespondent), joined the Union Steam Ship Company's service in January, 1902, as second officer ot the Rosamond. On the outbreak of war he enlisted ait Auckland iri the Uegion of iErontiersmfin, going away with fhe Main (Body. He was severely wounded at Gallipoli. Mr. Camiiplbell was invalided to New Zealand, and in December, 1916, joined one of the hospital ships as second officer. Ho held tflwt position until May of this y«r, when ihe came ashore ill, and entered the Dunedan Hospital. The death has taken place in Sydney (states a Press Association message > -of Captain John GiWb,. wfoo was oT»er seventy yews of age,;was born at Banff, Sootland, and served in a number of re?|ela sailing out of British ports ,Wow he came out to the polonies. He sfi*do several voyages be*w*n Wellington And China as master of the barquentin* Mky, belonging to Messrs W and G. Turnbull and Co., #nd then entered the en? ploy of tlie.lata Captain W. R. Williams, of Wellington.,, Ho afterwards joined the Union Company's service, and remained in it, until he retired a few years ago ; He was at various times in charge - of;; the Australia,,; Te Anau, Wakatipu, Moe»tei, Moana*. ■and two other ffnion Ooimpany IfooAts* now employed as hospital ships. For swme years Captain Gihlh,-who was very Ttopular with, the travelling puMic, l &sh been livtogja Sydnet.- j.US'Wfts urtmarried.

! Captain William Jones, one 'of Uhe eldest master mariners in th« Auckland district, died there this -week at the age l ' of 'BB. Captain Jones,' who was borir'at Uanclly, Waleg, went to/ Sea at the age of 18. He arrived in Auckland in 1856, and sailed out of that pontsHßfcil his retirement twelve years ago. He was closely connected wttih. tihe. early progress of Auckland and the outlying districts, being engaged in eonvejdnig stores to Thames and Jwmging tack timber.from the Shortland mill, wfciob. ceased lousiness 30 years agio. DutSng the troublesome times of the Maori War, Captain Jonea was employed* in carrying troops up the Waikato KSver and for this wa 3 granted the JMaori War pension. He was an expert soiling master, and won many regatta events with ! his vessels, one of which was the ketch. Adah. His las* vessel !before lis retirement was the ketch. Lizzatte, owned bv ! Mew. J J Craig. Ltd. Cta*S?£n£ ; nevoid a day's illness, Seat* Wng due [ta-senile-decay. ffia<wife-djgi J y«ara