PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9556, 31 July 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mibs L. Cameron has resigned the position oi assistant teacher at the Kaipnroro School. Mr R. Brown is gazetted Deputy Registrar of Marriages, Births and Deaths for the Masterton district. News has bien received by Mr M. Murdoch, ex-city cojncillor, of the death of his son, Alfred Rex Murdoch, who was Killed ir. a railway accident a Burnaby, on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mr Murdoch, who was a strong, athletic fellow, was a prominent member of the Wellington College Old Boys' Football Club, and of the Thorndon Swimming Club, wnerj he scored many successes.

The death occurred at Bluff of Mrs Marjory Leith, at the age of 95 years. Mrs Lefth, with her husband and one son, came to New Zealand in the barque Mary in 1849, after a long passage of six months. The new settlers were given a section off Princes street, Dunedin, and 50 acres of land, and they eventually settled on the Taieri. For three years Mrs Leith did not see another white woman. A move was made to Gladfield. .Nort Taieri, to a 200-acre farm. In 1861 Mr and Mrs Leith went to Southland, where they were the first settlers at Mokotau, and in Mrs Leith lost her husband For the last twenty £years she had lived with her daughter at Bluff, and she retained her faculties in their entirety until a few days before her death. Mrs Leith i« survived by two sons and two daughers. Her grandchildren number 34, and her great grandchildren 36. The death is announced of Mr Malcolm Miller, of Lvttelton, who was well-known in various parts of New Zealand, and who had been a resident of Lyttelton for over thirty years. The deceased, who was 71 jears of age was born at Lochranza, Island of Arran, Scotland, and came to Dunedin in 1862. He was in busine*s at different periods in Invercargill, Picton, Greymouth ar.d Wanganu>, and finally settled in 1874 at Lyttelton, where he carried on very successfully the business of a shipwright. He was an enthusiastic yachtsman, -and for some years had been owner of the well-known yacht Pastime, in which he made frequent cruises. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family