PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9564, 10 August 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. H. Booth, of Middle Run, left Carterton, yesterday morning, to attend the annual conference of Jersey breeders at Palmerston North. Sergeant Miller, of the Master ton Police Force, left yesterday for the South on a fortnight's holiday. Sergeant Murphy, of Wellington, will be in charge of the Master ton police Station during Sergeant Miller's ab-

Mr H. Petersen, who is lying seriously ill at the Mastetton Hospital, j had to have another operandi! performed on his thraat yesterday. His , many friends, however, will be pleased to learn that he is progressing as favourably as can be expected under the trying circumstances. j Our Carterton correspondent writes:—"The death took place at Glareville on Sunday afternoon of Mr Abraham Oliver, one of the early pioneers of New Zealand. The late Mr Oliver, who had been ailing for some time, being for a while in the Masterton Hospital, was a native of London, and with his wife and family of six children landed in Wellington thirty-four years ago. He came on to Masteiton, and after residing there for a while removed to Parkvale, carrying on farming operations. Some seven years ago he retired, and left the management ofJiis farm to his sons. The deceased was seventythree years of age, and leaves a widow and grown up family of three sons and seven. daughters to- mourn their loss. Mr Oliver, through his kindly disposition, won the esteem of f all who came in contact with him, I and the bereaved family will have ; I the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their bereavement. The funeral will take place this afternoon, leaving hia late residence for the Clareville Cemetery at 1.30." Mrs W. Cragg, of Masterton, is a I daughter of the late Mr Oliver. ! Mr Isaac Cooiey, of Lo«ei- Hutt, who died the other day, hid lived under the reign of five British sovereigns V-Geortre 111., IV., William IV., Victoria and Edward VII. The deceased was horn at Maidstone, Kent, in 1819. He arrived in Wellington in the ship Olympus in 1841. When the war broke out with the Maoris, Mr Cooiey and Mr J. Cudby, J.?., who is still a Hutt resident, were comrades and dnve the commissariat wagons for a contractor, Mr W. B. Rhodes. This was exceedingly i dangerous work, as thev liable to be attacked at any time. They preferred not to avail themselves of military escorts, the pair considering they were safer by themselves. ' The camp was situated at what is ] known as Boulcdtt's section near the site of the present MelHng j bridge. , Here the soldiers were ; suddenly surprised by the natives one mor.iiug in 1846, and several of the militia were killed, including the boy bugler Allan, whose heroic act in sounding the "call to arms" after he had is arm cut off by a native will be for ever remembered by New Zealanders. Messrs Cudby and Cooiey were told off to bury the dead, and to do so it was necessary for them to cross the river under great difficulties. . The bugle was carried away by the Maoris, but it was later recovered when the soldiers successfully attacked the enemy it Wajkanae, and the instrument was jventually sent to England.