Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3, 3 January 1914, Page 5

Personal.

A knighthood has been conferred upon Mr Owen Seaman, the editor of Punch since 1906.

Mr D. T. Fleming, of Balclutha, has been appointed organiser to the Reform Party for Otago and Southland.

Mr Eric Arthur Woods, science student, who has just completed the third year of his B.Sc. course, has been chosen as the Tasmanian Rhodes scholar for 1914. He is 21 years of age, and has had a successful career at school and at the University.

Mr George Bailey died at Helensville on Tuesday. He arrived in New Zealand in 1863, and was for some years associated with goldfields newspaper enterprises. He was editor for some vears of the Tuapeka Times, m Otago* Three daughters survive him— Mrs R. B. McKay (Invercargill), Mrs R. M. Cameron (Helensville), and Mrs W. Gower (Wellington).

Mrs Sarah Annie Rhodes, relict of the Hon. W. B. Rhodes, M.L.C., aged 73, died yesterday, after a long illness (says a Press Association message from Wellington). The deceased was a sister of Mr Wm. Sefton Moorhouse, a former Canterbury politician, and was Mr Rhodes’ second wife. Mrs Rhodes

had been prominent for many years t i n connection with charitable works and philanthropic .movements, and not long ago was made a Lady of the Order of St‘.John of Jerusalem, a distinction not often conferred on a woman. The death of Mr Thomas Adamson was recorded earlier in the week in the Wanganui Chronicle, which says;—He took part in the fighting on this coast in General Camerson’s campaign, and was with the colonial forces on the East Coast in 1861, where he was wounded on several occasions. Adamson seemed to bear a charmed life, and his comrades knew him as a man of indomitable, pluck and nerve, courageous in the extreme, and never foolhardy. Often at the risk of his life he rescued wounded comrades from certain death. A serious wound in his left hand almost incapacitated him from work, and he was awarded a mil ta'y pension. During the disturbances in 1868-9 Adamson joined the Wanganui Cavalry Volunteers, and served with them for some time. Later, he -’oilied the “Scouts.” Gudgeon’s ‘Heines of New Zealand,” published in 1387, says of Adamson: “Thomas Adamson, private in the volunteers, gained the . New Zealand Cross for good and gallant services as a scout and guide through the campaign of 1888-69—con-tinuously undertaking hazardous and laborious reconnoitring expeditions almost alone in, advance of- tae force. and for'personal gallantry when attacked; with other guides, in am ant e of'the column beyond Ohik-uu on May 7th, 1869, when they unmasked a ambuscade, and Adamson, with others, was severely wounded, and the guide / Serai- killed.”