PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Melbourne cable says the Victorian estate of the late Mr. W. S. Howard Smith is valued at £345,480.

A London cable says Miss Ethel M. Dell, the novelist, has married Colonel Savage, her neighbor at Guildford. The ceremony was performed secretly at 8 o’clock in the morning. Mr. Richard Cobbe, of Feilding, a well-knowh farmer and business man, has announced himself as a candidate for Mr Wilford’s party, against Mr. D. H. Guthrie ar the coming election. A Wellington telegram reports the death of Mr. Walter Nathan, director of Bannatyne and Co., aged 76. He leaves a widow, four sons and five daughters. One daughter, Miss Sybil Nathan, is at present at Home as delegate to the Red Cross Convention. Mr. R. W. McVilly, general manager of railways, became seriously ill on Saturday night, and his condition since has been causing anxiety to his friends. He, however, is now making good progress towards recovery, and it is ex> pected that he will be able to get about again soon, though it will probably be some time before he resumes duty.

1 Mr. A. T. MacGonagle died at the New Plymouth Hospital early yesterday morning of double pneumonia. The deceased, who was in his 70th year, had been in business as a blacksmith in New Plymouth for about 45 years, starting in partnership with Mr. Collins in Currie Street, and afterwards in Gill Street. He leaves a widow and a family of four daughters and two sons, who will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends. Another son, Cyril, was killed at Messines during the great war. The daughters are: Miss Lettie MacGonagle (New Plymouth), Mrs. C. Richardson (Wanganui), Mrs. Arthur Coad (New Plymouth), and Mrs. C. Paque (Auckland), and the surviving sons, Mr. P. MacGonagle (Inglewood), and Mr. L. MacGonagle (Karangahake).

The death of Mrs. Davies, wife of Mr. William Davies, took place at her residence, Vivian Street, New Plymouth, yesterday morning. The . late Mrs. Davies was the fifth daughter of the Rev. John Frederick Reimenschneider, who was formerly a missionary in the early ’fifties, at VVarea. She was born in Nelson 59 years ago, when many of the Taranaki settlers were taking refuge in the South Island at the time of the Maori War. She was married to Mr. W. B. Davies about eight years ago. The sympathy of a large circle of friends will be extended to relatives of the late Mrs. Davies in the loss they have sustained. It is worth calling to mind that the late Mrs. Davies’ father, while with the troops during the war, was the means of saving a considerable force of British soldiers from being drawn into a trap which the natives had laid for them at Warea in an endeavor to entice them into the bush in quest of the enemy.