PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9570, 17 August 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Rev. B. H. Ginger, Woodville, baa received a call to an important charge in the South Island. Mr Ginger has decided not to accept the call.

The death occurred at Martinborough, yesterday, of Mrs Bennett, wife Jof Mr G. Bennett, the wellknown contractor of that township. The deceased la%, who had been ailing for sometime was a daughter of Mr E. Eagle, snr., of Carterton, and a sister of Mr W. Eagle, of the Taueru. She was 44 years of age, and leaves four children to mourn their loss.

It is not generally known that Miss Nellie Stewart's great-great-great-grandmother was the famous Mrs Yates, who acted with David Garrick. A pair of si ipper. buckles, presented by the latter to Mrs Yates, has been handed down to Miss Nellie Stewart, who, it iB interesting to learn, wears the Identical pair on the stage. The death of Mr J. Maunder, of Hokitika, brings to mind the old days of the Coast when the Burgess and Sullivan gang, the notorious bushrangers, were levying on all whom they met (states the Greymouth correspondent of a Christchurch paper). Mr Maunder was the last man who spoke to George Dobaon, whom the gang murdered in mistake for a bank manager supposedly them to be returning from gold buying expedition. It seems that the late Mr Maunder was 4 'stuck-up" by the waiting bushrangers, and when they found that they had got hold of the wrong man it was proposed to do away with bim, Sullivan remarking that "dead men'tell no tales." Burgess, howeveri objected, on the ground that Mr Maunder was a poor old miner, and they had enough murders on their hands already.and he was allowed to go on his way. After walking a short distance, Mr Maunder met the unfortunate man Dobson. He told him to look out, as he had been stuck Up by the Burgess gang. Dobson laughed, and said they would do him no hurt, as he bad nothing on him worth taking, and pursued his way. Mr Maunder shortly after haerd the shot which killed the poor fellow, but he could do nothing. All they got was some few shillings from their victim. Mr Maunder had a remarkable escape, as at the time he had upwards of 200 sovereigns in a belt strapped round his body.