PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9575, 23 August 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs Ellen Colburne died at Outrami Otago, on Saturday morning, aged 100. /* t. At the Wellington Supreme Court, on Friday, before His Honor Mr Justice Cooper, sitting in Chambers, Mf 0* ti. Cullen, ol Masterton, waß admitted as a solicitor, en the motion of Mr T. ■'M. Wilford. Mr _Cullen will practice in conjunction with Mr A. R. Bunny. j Messrs H. C. Tewsley and J. G. Harkness, representatives of the Wellington Chamber at the Conference of Chambers of Commerce of /the Empire, to open in Sydney on September 14tb, leave Wellington on September 10th. Mr Peter Barr will represent Punedin. Mrs Dqnovan, wife of Mr Thomas Donovan, and mother of Mr Donovan, of the Royal Pictures Syndicate, died at Wellington on Friday last, from an a * tac k of bronchitis, accelerated byheart disease. Mrs Donovan, who j as 68 years of age, was much liked by all who knew her. Mr Ernest W. Hunt, F.1.A.N.Z., a member of the firm of Messrs Barr, Luery and Williams, public accountants, Wellington, has been advanced to the statute of Fellow of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of Victoria, says the Melbourne "Journal of Cummerce. Mr Hunt will act as New Zealand correspondent of the institute.

Mr 0. G. Adams, mining engineer, who has been away from New Zealand for the past two years, wdi retarn on Wednesday next from Sydney. During his absence he went to South America to report on the mines of Sainte Isobel, Republic of Colombia, and during the past few months he has been reporting on Sea in New South Wales for an English syndicate. Mr. J A. Petrie, who had been an inmate of the Greymouth Hospital for some time, having been a victim of consumption for three and a-half years, died last Tuesday, Bays the "Star." He was a nat.ve of Dumfries. He came to JNew Zealand With his parents mthe early days, and entered the banking business, which he followed until he reaigned from it at Na*eby to go into business as a general merchan in Greymouth. He took an aciive part i<i the development of the town, and was three times Mayor. His wife predeceased him four years ago. He leaves two sons, Mr Alan . Petrie- (who is studying for the { Church) and Mr Kenneth Petrie, a dentist in practice at Geraldine. Another of the old settlers, in the person of Mr William Hancock, for many years proprietor of the Red Boot Warehouse, New died on Thursday morning. The deceased, who had passed by a year the alotted span of three score years and ten, came to New Zealand in in 1852, in the ship Berwick Castle, as a youth of 14 years. When the cold fever broke out in Victoria, he joined the "rush," and spentsonie years there, returning in w New Zealand,and starting business in New Plymouth. He was one ot the party which went from New Plymouth to Pukearuhe to bring in the bodies of the wev. John Whitaley, Lieut. Gascoigne, and his fan»|» after the Whitecliffs massacre, and fae claimed to have been the one volunteer for the work of disini|| ment.