PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 163, 4 August 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Miss Eri Thomson left the Bluff last week to join Madame Melba at Melbourne, in pursuance of a purpose on the part of the latter to aid in developing Miss Thomson's musical abilities.

The survivors of the wreck of the Penguin are having prepared an address of thanks to Mr. John McMenamen, of Tcrawhiti, thanking him for the kindness he displayed to them on that occasion. The survivors are, naturally, by this time scattered pretty widely over the face of New Zealand, but every effort is to i>e made to get the signature of each, and it seems quite probable that the address will make quite a pilgrimage through the land before it bears the signatures of all who were saved. Mr. Dugald Mathcson, of Kairanga, died rather suddenly on Saturday morning, aged cigthy-three years. He was born at Skyc, Scotland. With his brother, Mr. Roderick Mathcson, he tried his fortune on the Victorian gpldfields in 1852, and subsequently they both came to New Zealand. Mr. Dugald Mathcson spent some years in Otago, living at Queenstown, on Lake Wakatipu. About thirty years ago lie went to the Manawatu district, where he engaged in farming. A London cablegram announces the death of Mr. Alexadcr McArtllur, of the firm of W. A. McArthur and Co., Sydney, after a brief illness. Air. McArthur was born in Ireland, and was in his 95th year at the time of his death. After being educated at a private school deceased emigrated to New South Wales, reaching Sydney in 1840. For some vears he was a member of the Sydney Legislative Assembly and afterwards a member of the Legislative Council. He returned to England in 1803. He wa» M.P. for Leicester from 1874 to 1892, when he retired from politics. Deceased was a Fellow of the Imperial Institute, a member of the Royal Colonial Institute, the Victoria Institute, British Association, and several other societies.