PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Captain Newenham R.. Cornwall.! R.NJL, a brother of Mr. R. D. Com- 1 wall. New Plymouth, is at present visit-) ing New Plymouth. A New York cable says that Signor j Caruso has sailed for Itaty to recover I from a malady which, he says, does not affect his voice.

Mr. Thomas Burton, a pioneer colonist, has died at Auckland, aged 82. He arrived in the Dominion in 1860. and served in the Maori War. Mr. J. H. Gunson. Mayor of Auckland, is a nephew of deceased.

It was stated in yesterday’s issue that Mr. J. R. Corrigan was in a precarious state of health. This did not allude to Mr. J. R. Corrigan, of Hawera. ' who is as well and hearty as usual, but to a Mr. J. R. Corrigan of the Wanganui district. One of the few survivors of the band of pioneer settiers who arrived in Waitemata Harbor by the Duchess of Argyle in the early ‘‘forties,” Mr. Archibald McNair, died on May 27. Deceased was bom in Paisley, Scotland, and ! was brought to Auckland with his parents when four years of age, and had practically resided there for the whole of his life up to his eighty-fourth year. During the Waikato War Mr, McNair saw active service. He has followed farming pursuits all his life. Deceased is survived by his four sons, Archibald, William, James and Isaac McNair.

Miss Wright, domestic service instructress for the North Canterbury Country Centres,, left last week for New Plymouth, to which place she has been appointed. Before leaving she was the recipient off several presentations in appreciation of her services. At the Amberley Centre she received a travelling clock in a leather case. At Oxford the schools presented her with a suit case, and three girls from Ashley Gorge (School gave her a pretty teapot. At Rangiora the pupils of the High School division gave a cup and saucer and plate of Royal Doulton; the Borough School’s gift was of the same ware in the shape of two pretty vases, while the girls belonging to the Southbrook ; School gave an autograph album, suitably inscribed, and bearing the signa- . turea of the whole class. The Convent . pupils’ gift took the shape of an at- • tache case; while the Kaiapoi Centre’s gift was a blouse case.