PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs G. Braoegirdle, of Smart Road, left by the mail train yesterday morning on a month's tour of the Soutu Island.

Sergeant J. R. Nairn, who left with the 22nd Reinforcements, returned £a iiltham on night. He baa been twice wounded, but come* baete in perfect health.

Major F. Prideaux, son of Mr. and H. A,. Prideaux, of Richmond Stwttl Pa tea, arrived home on Friday aftelw noon, after aome 6J years' service ttf the front. ~

Mr. Frank Hutchens, the brilliant H*-( weiu pianist, now 011 the »taff of the I New South Wales Government Can.' servatorium, Sydney, arrived frotn AiMf' tralia by the Manuka on Sunday eveiM ing. After a brief visit to his peony he is to tour with the Verbrumrhtti Orchestra as solo pianist. 7

The Patea Press records the death. oi{ baturday, of one of Patea's oldest anJ most respected settlers in the person of Mr. Thomas Thompson, at the age «£, in Durham, England, came to the Do* minion, about 30 years ago, and was for a number of years engaged in the frozen meat industry in this district. The late Mr. Thompson, who was of a meat genial and kindly nature, was an en- " thusiastio sportsman, being a cricketW and bowler of considerable merit, add / was at one time President of the Patta » bowling club.

Mr. John Lofts Hills, an old reaidefit of Ashhurst, who reoetitW died, wis bo ( rn m Toppesford, isftex, eight*seven years ago, and followed the «£l his first visit to New Zealand being it the age of eighteen years. After visit. n g ,. m ° Bt . of the worl(i > he settled at Pahautanui about sixty years ago. He then removed to Calyton, being one it the pioneers of the Manchester where he resided for thirty-three y«3«! About three yeaTs ago he retired aid settled 111 Ashhurst. He was marriM t.iree times and leaves a widow and iarnily of eleven. •

Concerning the death of Mr. Jamea Jackson, of Te Awaite, one of Marlborough a sterling old Battlers, the Marlborough Express states that the deceased gentleman had attained hla 76th .vear. Xlie news came as a shock to the community of Picton and the Sounds, among whom he was eo well known ud highly respected. «ln the death of tUoh a sterling and honored character «ul sttr old friend a link with theparttaTlZ severed, for he was the last temainiflj? wim Sa t Pints vhose strenuous lives in the jiUeer whaling days of Te Awaite will be Wttt* ten dow>i by future historiahs. The de- \ u SOn of the late CapUin Jackson who brought the first w&Uag B'lip, the Caroline, to l?ew Zealand waters, and was the first to Itert JS! operations at Te Awaite, where Mr. livedKaKu 11 W r R rn ' •"* where ha e Z. From the time he WM fourteen years of age, when he flnt en- . l» , , boftt t0 take in a S JtoUon engaged in the ex. citing and perilous life of whkUur, and on until about «even nm mo, Swiff°!f and famous wh(lle Wt, the Swiftsure, was.presented by him «wna r'.! arS to J he Chri »tchur9h MiiMttte.l i.. addlti ® n to taking an active pare al 'u g In l ustr r' Mr - ' engaged in sheep fartnW and am# years ago took over the Brboklvn Run, ' formerly owned by Mr. J. A. R. Green' 1 Sl ". He had thirteen children, one of whom was killed at Gallipoll, eijthteoa ST 6 "' and ,even A