PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 783, 29 March 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

King Edward and Queen Alexandria visit Copinhngcu early in April, on the occasion of King Christian's birthday.

During the 80 weeks lie has actually been on the roads, Mr Angus McCurdy, colonial organiser of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, has traveller 26,890 miles.

Wo learn with regret that an old New Plymouth resident, Mr George Wood-house, is lying seriously ill at the Auckland Hospital. Owing to his advanced age (7<>) grave fears are entertained as to hiM recovery.

A reoent picture of Madame Stossel acting as nurse in the Port Arthur hospitals, which appeared in the Illustrated London News, was drawn by an old Napier boy, Mr Bcgg, whose excellent black and white workis a prominent feature of that journal.

The death occurred at Warepa, Clutha, last week, of Mrs Pete Ayson, mother of Mr 1,. F. Ayson, of Wellington, Chief Inspector of Fisheries. Mrs Ayson, who was in her tilth year, was one of Otago's oldest sett'lcrs, having emigrated from Scotland with her lale husband. Mr Peter Ayson, in the early iifties.