PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 20, 23 January 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. G. K. Kenrick, S.M., who met with an accident while on holiday in North Auckland, was a passenger for south by this morning’s mail train.

The Rev. William Walmsley Sedgwick, Hon. Canon of Christchurch Cathedral and Diocesan Missioner, has been appointed Bishop of Waiapu in succession to Bishop Averill who goes to Auckland. • Bishop Sedgwick, who is 33 years of age, served as chaplain in the Royal Navy from 1884 to 1886, and came to New Zealand in 1901— Napier P- A. message.

Mr Edward Lauri has named his daughter Hinemoa. This, he tells an English paper, was due to a great admiration of the beautiful, chivalrous, and hospitable Maori race', and to the fact that his wife is a New Zealander. Another name to a child born in New Zealand of English parents is Manuka, a large shrub which is in profuse flower this season. In the registry at Hampstead, London, is found Maimupa Mary. ~: ii

A very old identity of the Waipuku district, in the person of Mrs Carter, passed away this morning at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr 1). Blanchard; Waipuku, this morning. The deceased, whose husband predeceased her by 26 years, had been in the district for about 30 years. She was in her 73rd year. A family of four sons and two daughters survive. They are: Messrs Charles B. (Pohokura), Frank (Midhirst), Samuel (Egmont Village), and John W. (Midhirst), and Mrs Blanchard (Waipuku), and Mrs Mills (New Plymouth).

,( An interesting personality was Mrs Thos. Smith, whose death is recorded by the Halifax Courier as having occurred recently at the great age of 97 years. Mrs Smith travelled much during her lifetime. Nearly 60 years ago Mrs Smith emigrated with her late husband to New Zealand, and since then made- seven voyages to and from her native land, making a total of about 300,000 miles. The first voyage took between four and five months. The Maori war commenced a few weeks after the Smiths settled, in Taranaki, and they were soon in the midst of ■ome alarming experiences. The colonists were forced to flee for their lives into the towns, and there was all the hardship of a siege. Mr Smith bore,arms against the Natives, and his home was one of those destroyed in the general devastation. Mrs Smith’s last voyage from New Zealand was but two years and a-half ago, when she was approaching her ninety-fifth birthday. She was remarkably hale and hearty in body and mind up to within a short time of her death. Born in the year of the battle of Waterloo, Mrs Smith lived in the reign of six sovereigns—George 111, George IV, William IV., Victoria, Edward VII., and George V. Mrs Smith remembered clearly the coronation of King William and. Queen Victoria, and had a vivid recollection of hearing Sir William Peel speak at the Peace Hall in Halifax.