PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3043, 13 November 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Cronin has been elected captain of the Woodville volunteer corps. Mr Callender, of the Carterton railway staff, has received notice of his transfer to Petone. Mr R. V. Thompson, son of Mr W. R. Thompson, of Greytown, has been appointed manager of the Reefton branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory. Mr and Mrs D. Caseiberg are amongst the New Zealand passengers on board the S.S. Bremen, which arrived at Fremantle on November 10th. The friends of Mrs H. Yates, of Upper Plain, will regret to hear that she suffered a paralytic stroke on Wednesday night last. She has now, however, almost recovered from the effects. Mr Lyall Hector, fourth son of the late Sir James Hector, Lower Hutt, died suddenly yesterday. The late Mr Hector was a medical student at Dunedin, and had just completed his medical course.

On Saturday last, Captain T. Benton, on behalf of the Featherston Rifle Club, presented Mr Everton, the Secretary, with a Lee-Enfield magazine rifle in' recognition of his valuable services to the Club during the past five years.

Miss Ola Humphrexf, who visited New Zealand with "The Scarlet Pimpernel" Companv, will take Miss Margaret Anglin's place in the Williamson Company that is to open in Wellington on Boxing night. It is understood that Miss Beatrice Day will take Miss Humphreys' position with "The Scarlet Pimpernel" Company now playing in Melbourne, which would indicate that Mr Herbert Fleming's death has brought about the disbandment of the company headed by the recently deceased actor.

Mr Donald M'Bain, an old resident of Wellington, died from heart trouble on Wednesday, in his eightyfourth year. The deceased was formerly a well-known member of St. John's Church, and was for some years connected with the Lands and Sr'vey Department, from whi«h he retired on superannuation two years ago. He leaves a family of four sons (including Mr Alex. M'Bain, in the employ of the Wellington Education "Board, and Mr J. M'Bain, of the Town Clerk's clerical staff) and one daughter.

The death is announced on November 7th, at her residence, Mamuka, of Mrs Maria Mills, relict of the 'ate Mr Edwin Mills. The deceased was the daughter of the signalman, Tapper, who had charge of the flagstaff at Kororareka (now Russell) during the Maori war. She was the girl on whose shoulders the redoubtable Hone Heko placed a white blind, which he had wrenched away from a window, to represent a flag of truce. The warrior then ordered her to accompany the remainder of her party down to the beach, after the sacking of the town, her mantle of white | affording a protection from the rifles | of the Maoris who had surrounded the place. A half-caste who wished to accompany them was murdered before the girl's eyes. Mrs Mills' husband, who diela few years ago, was a soldier, belonging to the 58th Regiment, and could remember having met Sir George Grey on the beach at Kororareka in the early I forties. He was present at the talc- / ing of the Ruapekapeka Pah.