PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 December 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. lieakes, manager of the local abattoir, returned 011 (Saturday night I rum a trip to Wellington. Air, J. T. M. llornsby, M.P., is staying at the Terminus Hotel.

Jjitshop and Mrs. Nellgan and family left Auckland for Wellington by the Waikare 011 Saturday, en route for England.

A i'ress wire from Waiigauui records the death yesterday of Airs. McGregor, iif "Auchmore/' one ol the oldest and best known settleiw in the district, at ilie age of Dl years.

There are few in Taranaki to whom the name of Mr. Alf. JSayJy is unfamiliar, and the announcement of his death at Waiigauui yesterday (Sunday) will be received with the keenest regret by ail classes. An a footballer Alf. P»ayly was known from end to end of the Dominion, and to him and his contemporaries was due the credit of bringing the athletic prowess of this province to the forefront. A gentleman of ample 1 meuiiri, Mr. Bayly played the game of I football as lie lived hisj honestly, and chivalrously. In its days J of stress, Mr. JJayly's purae was ofttimes the saviour of tlie Taranaki Rugby Union, of which lie was president for some years, and few outside the management circles will ever know how valuable that cheerfully-given aid was at critical junctures. About a year ago the (lovernment purchased his Toko estates, and he was riubsetjiH-iitly entertained at a monster valedictory gathering at Stratford, at which a presentation and address, subscribed by friend-; and admirers throughout the provinoe, was niiide. Mr. Uayly decided to take up hits residence at. Wangamii. but his health, which had latterly not Iwen over-robust, failed him, and he has been gradually sinking for some time. Mr. Bayly was only 41 years of ago at the time of his death.