PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death of Lady Roberts, widow of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, is tfcnounced in a cable from London.

Sir John and Lady Findlay were passengers by the Remuera, which left on Tuesday for London. A cable from London saj'R Mr. Andrew Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) is now convalescent after an attack of congestion of the lungs. Mr Robert Tumbull, of Wellington, has undergone a aerious Operation at the" hands of an eminent surgeon in Sydney. He was accompanied by Dr. Hamilton Gilmer.

Mr. S. Cottier, who has just .completed -25 years' service in the firm of Weston and Billing, was presented by the staff with a very handsome solid silver tea service and a silver spirit kettle to mark the occasion.

In the State examinations- for passes as registered nurses the following Taranaki nurses received seventy-five per cent or over; Winifred Hoski'ngs, Olive Mary Paynter, Daisy Mitchell, Dorothy Dew (New Plymouth), Lucy Heayn's (Patea), Ivy Swadling (Hawera). Mr. Glasgow (manager at Waitara for Messrs. Roy and Nicholson) was the recipient of a presentation from a number of friends on the eve of his. marriage. Mr. H. Nieols, on behalf of the company present, asked Mr. Glasgow to accept a jam and butter dish and also their best wishes for a happy future. A Wellington message reports the death of Mr. J. W. Allman Marchftnt, formerly Surveyor-General and UnderSecretary for Lands, aged 79. The late Mr. Marchant was bom in India, and entered the New Zealand Government service in 1884. He was appointed Chief Surveyor of the Wellington district in 1577, Commissioner of Crown Lands in ISflO, and Surveyor-General in 1901, retiring from the service in IflOC.

Private advice was received at Itivercargill yesterday of the death at Mt. Gambicr, South Australia, of Mr. Thos. Chute Ellis, for 40 years associated with the pastoral industry in Southland, and the owner of the well-known Five Rivers and Merivale estates, which were cut up for closer settlement a few years ago, and other properties, Mr. Ellis jwncd some fine properties in Australia. —Press Association.

There passed away on Saturday at her residence, Hataitai, Mrs. Anne MeComisky, one of New Zealand's early settlers. The late Mrs. McComisky was 71 years of age, and was well known both in Wellington and in South Taranaki. She experienced many of the struggles which fell to the lot of New Zealand's pioneers, and wont through the Mitori wars in South Taranaki. For over 40 years she was a resident of Patea, arriving before the first railway went through.

The funeral of the late Mr. H. H. C. Boyle took place at the Eltham Ceme' tery on Tuesday. There was a large attendance of the deceased's fellow em' ployces and also of town and country folk, including the directors of the Il« tham Dairy Company, to pay a last tribute of respect to the late manager of the company, and numerous floral emblems. The pall bearers were all of the dairy company staff, viz., Messrs. IT. Northover (secretary); W. Rnlith (acting general manager), A. Manley (manager of butter factory), E, Carlisle (manager of curing room), D; Mackie (manager of Jorseydale factory), and E. Bishell (lorry driver;. The set* vice at the graveside was conducted bv ihe Rev. .7. L. Gray.

The death, in his Hth year, is am nounced of a very .old colonist, Mr. Matthew Mitchell, of Patea.' Deceased, who was a native of Maryhil), Glasgow, Scotland, left home at 16 years of age and for a time served ae a midshipman on the ship Motura. Deciding to settle in New Zealand, Tie landed at Port Chalmers, and took part in the Otago gold rush. Later, he answered the call for volunteers for the Maori War, and served with the Military Settlers in the Taranaki campaign. Another spell at the gold diggmgs, this time on the West (oast, followed, after which he settled in Canterbury and took up farming and contracting. Some fourteen years ago he decided to settle in Taranaki, and took a farm near Patea, where he had resided ever smee. Mr. Mitchell, who was twice married, leaves a widow. h ee daughters and six sons, five of the latter having served in the Great War. To these the sympathy of many friends will be extended in their bereavement.