PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7857, 27 June 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Fathiar Hay«, tke eminent temperance lecturer, wteo is conducting a successful campaign In .New Zealand, will pay a visiit to Now Plymouth in about a week's time. Mr G. .1. Hewlett, Clerk oi the Court at Stratford, left for Paknerston North on Satmduv, whitheir he has been transferred. Musical circles will leara with regret of the death of Signor Arngelo Ma.schw. oni, the composer of " For All Eternity," "A/ve Maria," "The . Eternal City," and many other songs whi'ch won a wide popularity. Mr J. Pedersen', one of the Governuvent daiiy .instsuclors, who arrived in the colony from Denmark about two years ago, is leaving the Government service in September. Mr I'edei'sen intends proceeding to the Argentine.

Mr John Prouse, the baritone vocalist, Mrs I'rouse, and those members ni' thf •"umily who have boon visiting* Ijondon, 'have altered their.* »*etut*n arrangements, and are now coming in New Zealand 'by way of America. They are (lue to arrive in Auckland by the Sierra early in l August.* Abraham StoU. an Imperial and Now Zealand, veteran, seventy-four years of age, died at the Wellington Hospital on Thursday. He served in the West Indies with the Forty-ninth 1 tegi merit, and afterwards wi'oh the j Fifty-seventh in New Zealand during those troublous years between 18(53 and 1867. He then joined the Armod Constabulary, and went after the re» doubtable Titokowaru, under Colonel Whitmore. Ho took part in the expedition against T]e Kooti in the Urdwcra Country, arid was in the Ituaitahuna valley engagements. Ho settled at Gisborne afterwards, and there became a member of the Gisborne' Rifles, and, moving from place to place, was in the Wellington Guards in 1880, the Opunake 'Rifles in 1881, and tho Wellington Guards again in 1883, getting his discharge the next year. Mr Stiott was a carpenkv.and worked at h'is trade up till eight years ago, when ho fell from a building, and was disabled. He leaves a widow, six sons, end throe daughters,