PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

According to a London cable to Australian papers Colonel Park, formerly managing director of the Allan Line of steamers, has bequeathed £1,219,908, death duties claiming £366,000. The dea4.li occurred at Dunedin Hospital recent’y of Captain Solomon Bryant, at tbe age of sixty-nine years. Deceased was a master mariner and marine surveyor and was well-known throughout New Zealand and Australia. He was born at Bristol. Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., who has been relieving Magistrate in Taranaki, left by Saturday night’s boat for Auckland. Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., who is to take up permanent duty, resumes this week, after being absent in Dunedin on private business. The friends of Mrs. R. H. Bartley will be interested to hear of the success of her sister, word having just been received of her splendid success in her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Londoji. She has been awarded the gold medal of the college in her section for the year.

Mr. C. S. H. McKinney, a well-known business man and sportsman, of Auckland, died on Wednesday at the age of 64 years. He was a son of the Rev. Robert McKinney, one of the earliest settlers in the province, and had lived in Auckland for the past 40 years. j .

McKinney was a keen player and official of several branches of sport, including cricket, bowls itaid racing. Mrs. Atiria Hauwaho Broughton, widow of the late Wi Broughton, of Omahu, Hawke’s Bay, d-ied at Gisborne on Tuesday. The deceased lady, who was a daughter of Te Hauwaho, a chief of the Tuhoe tribe, and of Merepeka Kaimoko, of the Aitanga-a-Mahaki and Tanpam tribes, was born in the Gisborne district, and resided there until her marriage in 1882. She then went with Mr. Broughton to Hawke’s Bay, residing there ’...itil the beginning of this year, when she returned to Gisborne to be with her relatives. Captain Broughton, who is well-known in Palmerston North, is one of her sons.

Mr. Thomas Marsh, who died recently at Napier Hospital, had reached the great ago of 95 years. He is survived by a brother 90 years old, and his father, the late Isaac Marsh, died at the age of 92. as the result of an accident. Mr. Thomas Marsh was in the British Navy about 80 years ago. His vessel helped to convey troops to the Crimea. Later he was in the mercantile marine. The rush to Gabriel’s Gully goldfields drew Mr. Marsh ''from a seafaring life. In 1857 he married in Christchurch. Mr. Marsh’s youngest son and ten .grandsons were killed in the late war. Seven other grandsons were invalided home. Deceased is survived by three sone and | three daughters*