PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 187, 11 September 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Archbishop Redwood leaves Wellington for Sydney next week to attend the Roman Catholic Congress to t)e held in Sydney under the presidency of Cardinal Moraa.

Mr. Mark Cohen, editor of the Du'a-?-din Star and a New Zealand Press Oonterenct delegate, was yesterday welcomed in the Sydney Town Hall by the Lord Mavor and aldermen..

Mr. Will. T. Cronin, representative for West's Pictures, at present in town with the company, has the unique distinction of being the youngest advance agent in Australasia. Mr. Cronin graduated with Pollard's Opera Co. The death occurred on Sunday, 25th July, at Hygrovo, Minstcrworth, Gloucestershire, of Lady Douglas, wife of Sir Arthur P. Douglas, Under-Secretary for Defence in New Zealand from 1895 to 1903. Lady Douglas died after an operation for appendicitis.

The death occurred in Hawera 0.1 Thursday evening, after a short iIbiCJS, of an old and respected colonist in the person of Mr. Frederick Becchey, at the age ot 70 years. The deceased, who had been ailing for some years, came out to the colony in the ship Castle Eden (one of the first four ships to come to New Zealand) about the year 184!). The deceased had been a resident of Hawera for about thirty years.—Star. The death last week of Mr. Alfred James Sanders, at the age of 57, removes another of the Auckland-bom boys who acted as despatch riders during the last Maori war (says the New Zealand Herald). He joined the Tauranga Light Horse during Te Kooti's war, and, although a mere boy, it often fell to his lot to, carry despatches single-handed from Tauranga to the Thames. In those days this meant a wild night ride from Wailii beach, near Katikati Heads, over the range to the Thames, as Ohincmuri was unsafe for Europeans, and had to be carefully avoided.. He narrowly escaped the Opcpe massacre, having been sent hack to Taupo for' instructions shortly before the camp was attacked. He was a son of the" late Mr. Thomas Sanders, who was during the fifties clerk to the Magistrate's Court in Auckland. He leaves a widow and nine children, and his mother still survives him.