PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death occurred in Wellington dui> ing the week of Mr. Scqbell, a member of ihe Diggers Pierrots Company. A familiar figure in FeUding 1 -recently. passed away in the person of Mr. J. C, Mandahl, the veteran Tailor, in his. 81st year. Mr. Mandahl, who wa» a nativeofNorway, came out to Hawke's Bay 'in the first Norwegian vessel that traded in New Zealand, and he had been * resident of Feuding for 28 yean.

Captain Bruce Morison, "son of "Mr. C/ B. Morison, K.C., who recently accepted the offer of a position Ss assistant resident secretary in Uganda, and. fcnoi leaves Wellington in March, will meet some ex-New Zealandere in his newsphere of labor. Captain Tffofiiibn wa» wounded at GaMpoli and twice in Franco, and rendered splettatd fflSrvfee.

Sir James Allen stated, in answer to & direct question at Duneilln as to whether there is any truth in the rumor that Dr. Valintine is about to-retire . from the position of Inspector-General of Hospitals, that he- knew, .nothing about such a report, and, in any case, it was a matter for the Public Health Department, not his- Department; Mr. Hastings. Braddalk; for. th» .'past twelve years editor of the Nelson Colonist, -and- fotoeJly associated wAfc. newspaper work in Tara'naki, who is leaving for Invercargill to jq\n the literary staff of the Southland Times, wa»farewelled at the annual, supper given, by the Mayor of -Nelsen-fMr. W. W.-Bnod-grasß) to his councillors last week. Mr Braddell was presented- witti a goldmounted pen. ~ The death took place on Saturday, at his residence, Te Kuiti, of a well-known personality in the late Mr. Richard Coles Jordan. Mr. Jordan, who was born at Cricklidge, Wiltshire, in l)i§6, was in his « eighty-third year, and came out to New Zealand by the ship Sprfey of the Qctan, in ISoO, arriving at Auckland in' August of that year, along with three brothers. He served his time as a surveyor, and, in that eapaoity, wo*k«4-att---tba- Xbaraes goldflelds in the early mining boom days. He went from Thames to Tauranga in 1871, and was iu business there until 1907, when he retired and settled down t in To Kuiti. He leaves a widow, four fcfi sons, and three daughter*. "pjl

The death has occurred in London, from pneumonia, of Mr.. S. Whit?* Thornton, a former resident of Welling, ton and Nelson. Mr. Thornton, v*ho was ah accountant by profession) and with his father was author of -Thojsnton's works on book-keeping, etc.,. was secretary.pf the Electrolytic.-Haaniag and Smelting Company of Australia, Ltd., and the Mouni Morgan. Gold. Mining Company, Ltd. jtarly in the war he offered himself for active Ser-vioaj Wit was rejected owing to defective-eyesight. He later offered his sarsioe9 > agaii tfttf the Defence Department, and was finally accepted in August, 1918, and allotted to thtr ATemrntaut'iS ■branch of tll« A./.F. Mr; Thornton, was. Biprominent Red Cross worker, and in 1915 he proceeded to Egypt as secretary to Ihe'oofe? missioriers. HA was 42 years' of "age, ifld i leaves a widow and one son, Who.are now in England. (

jS It is reported that one or two further latge- flstates-in flip jlfnstortpti gnd Wflirarapa electorates are shortly to be offpr'cd to the Government for soldier settlement.

A fruit farmer from kelson reports that the fruits are leoking exceedingly well in that district this season. The canneries and Karkpattlok's, io&vn'mi their usual _ have done a good deal of forward buying of peaches autf irec'titrmes at Wand Ityd per-Hi rt*jjßt» tively, this representing an fidyawswpt Jd on season's rates. 'The iPM* and pear crops' also pFomise \"efy Wl} and the growers are looking a prosperous season. " ,

An offer of cheaper fish to .the puhlio is inad| by. a. fisherman,. in a letter published in the Walr&rapa Age in the folldwing terms:—JrovSto they (tne public) are prepared <to find the capital (of which I will find a fair part) to bay .a.,suitable. vas«»VJ*tlll contract to supply fish at the prices named, retail: 8d and 9d per lb for liapuka (groper), 9d lb blue cod, 8d )b mbkX TJcTTtr wSfeKou; TET lb scmi'lpplS; lOd lb. sole, and flounder, a-nd othar,fish in proportion. A vessel costing about £IOOO will supply, roughly, a hTßifltrtd customers, and a bigger ehlp.intow.accordingly.

The glorious isolation whioh GiaW»rn» has, enjoyed since Captain Cdolf first visited the place' is even accentuated'Sust now (says a write* in the Wangjnui Chronicle). .Thehtner harbor pd up to such an extent that the tender can only work tho river at haK4id& When the s.s. Tuatea, with the "toftm* ntii cricketers on board, was leavin* 3)4 wharf for, the s.s. Arahura in the roadstead on Tuesday night, .consideraM* delay was -occasioned through the fiirW being blocked by. the s.s. Putiki,,liifc* had beedttte stuck in tho mud and lay broadside on to the channel. EvWitu« ally ll with.tb.e help .of the harbor botod'ii launch, the steamer waß hauled inW the wharf, and the tender tfifh the Trttflttrd passenger* was enabled : tb ifeifc towa the nver entrance, Time was *&9 i thti s.s. Takapuna,U9ed to berth aMftifaffl wharf almost daily-, «hd njottneed steamers. used J,p wo*, the .port atiwrjr state of tide; but GisborneT drejik oj| making a success of trfe seenr tb TfttVfe tesn. o>ttS dis^elSoVJPhfr dredge Maui is tijsd up fth the Kdfelde of the stream, and has been ■ttafCut of commission for macy SdntlTs *

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