PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram reports the death of Mr. Robert Edward Monerieff, a native of Nelson, father of the actress. Detective-Sergeant Cooney, of New Plymouth, has resumed duty after holiday leave. Messrs. R. Masters, O. Hawken and E. Dixon, M.P.’s for Stratford, Egmont and Patea respectively, returned to Taranaki for the week-end by the mail train on Saturday evening Mr. S. G. Sifiith, M.P. for Taranaki, is remaining in Wellington over the week-end. The death is reported of Mrs. Peter Harrison at Masterton on Thursday. The deceased was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex Higgle, of “Blink Bonny,” Wanganui. She leaves a husband and daughter. Constable Lem, of the New Plymouth police force, has been .transferred to Hawera, and takes up duty there on Thursday. His place will be taken tby Constable Shaw, of Hawera. Constable Lem’s departure will be a loss tq the Old Boys’ senior football team; for whom he has played as wing threequarter during the present season. A 'Christchurch message reports the death of\Mr. Edward William Seager, aged 95. He was one of Canterbury’s early settlers, landing at Lyttelton in 1851. He joined the police force, finally becoming inspector for the district. In 1868 he was appointed officer in charge of the mental hospital at Sunnyside, holding the position for 24 years. One hundred years ago, on July 12. 1882, there arrived in New Zealand the Rev. Walter' La wry, Methodist missionary. His little son, who accompanied him, -ccame Rev. H. H. La wry, a missionary to the Maoris, dying in 1906. His sons, who commemorate to-day the hundredth anniversary of their grandfather’s coming to Maoriland, are Mr W. F. Lawry, chief inspector for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company in Australia; Mr. H. R. La wry, of Bay I Mr. J. La wry, of Sutherland and Co., Auckland; and the Rev. A. C. La wry,- Methodist centenary secretary for New Zealand

the late Mr. Cawthron. of Nelson, who left property valued at ovar £250,000, old Nelson residents inform the Manawatu Timfcs that for many years during the days of gold he acted as wharfinger at Nelson, and that he kept his finger on the pulse of the coastal markets and the shipping to such an extent that he knew where every shortage occurred and where supplies and shipping were available to supply the want. This was the source of his fortune, the bulk of which he left to found the Cawthron Institute. He was a well and favorably-known man among the old settlers. The death is reported of Mr. John Stevenson, one of Wanganui's oldest and most respected residents. He and his brother, the late Mr. J. L. Stevenson, arrived in Wanganui from Scotland in 1855, when quite small boys, and they spent the whole of their lives there. Mr. John Stevenson was educated in Wanganui, and on leaving school joined the staff of the Bank of New Zealand. In 1879 ho transferred to the New Zealand T ■ mi and Mercantile Agency Co., rising io the position of manager, which he held till he retired less than a year ago. He was a director of the Wanganui Freezing Company, and one of. the principal shareholders in the Castlecliff Railway Company. .Among the public , positions he hold was a seat on the Wanganui River Trust, and he was an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Stevenson was one of the ' original members of the Wanganui Golf Club, and was a keen player till quite recently. In Masonic life ho was a vary old member of St. Andrew Kilwinning Lodge, of which he was a P.M., and he held Qxoßd Lodge rank