PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 105, 24 April 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. (J. Kous-Alarten, the .New Zealam journalist whose death in London wa? a utiounced on Wednesday. was w<:l known to lite older generation of news paper men. lie was reporter 011 I lie staf oi' the Wellington l\.*i ami MilwMjuent ly editor of that ]mper. About liftee) years ago he resigned tiial position n order io represent a syndicate of Xev Zealand papers in London, and his let tors ol news and comment, written t'ron a colonial's point ol' view, have prove an interesting feature in a number o th. 1 city papers. Mr. Kouri-.Ylarteii wa: a man of hobbies. Two of theni; re markably dissimilar, were music an: railways, ile ] li;l d a V( . r y knowledge of music, and in Welliugtoi many years ago often wieMed the con du.lors baton 111 associations of soim importance. Hut more l'emarkable wa< his knowledge of engineering, lie ha< not tlie advantage of a mechanical train ing; nevertheless, by patient study, tha wiw not lalfor but a positive enjoyment he so thoroughly educated himself ii certain branches of railway engineering especially that of locomotion, that hi became an authority whose opinion car rit-d considerable weight with the high est experts, lie contributed npecia articles to the paper Engineering am some reviews, ami if anything new ii the mechanism of a. locomotive wa: iH'ing tested he \va> pretty certain 0 rciviving an early invitation to l>e pre sent. Personally he was greatly liked more particularly among bis more inti mate acquaintances,