PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 188, 13 September 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A Sydney caible announces the death of Harry Shine, the well-known actor. Mrs. It. Brewer, of Hawera, died at Hawera on Saturday morning after a brief illness.

Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P. for Taumarunui, i» making his annual tour of the constituency.

It is rumored that Dr. Paget has resigned tin- piiMtimi of Medical Superintendent at the Stratford Hospital. A telegram from Blenheim announces the death of Mr. Frank Hall, a wdlknown business man in that town.

Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward 'eft Vancouver on Friday by the steamer Makura, due at Honolulu on the 17th, and at Suva on the 27th inst. A brother »f Mr. Million, of OpunaKc, was returning to South Africa by the Waratah, and much anxiety is natura'ly felt concerning him. His friends (says the Opivaakc Times) are hoping that ie landed at Durban when the vessel called there.

■At Fox ton on Wednesday there died Air. Walter 11. Alwlorf, one of Fuxton s oldest anil most respected settlers, lie claimed the distinction of being tlio first Kiiropean born at Port Nichols).'!. While employed by the Government as a surveyor h'e laid off a portion of Vm Unvii of Foxlon and most of Palnnrs--10,1. Air. Alzdurf had resided in l''oxUui for upwards of forty yrars. Xcws has been received liy iles-.ru Aleviicll and Guiin. from Perth, of Hie death of one of their malingers, SJ-. Alec Verne who was in that city with the comedy' eoiubimitio.i headed hy Mm Maggie Moore ami Air. H. Eoherts. He was hist .wen in the Dominion at Master with Aleynell and Gniin's dramatic 00. The late' Air. Verne, who was about 40 yrars of age, and was educated in England, though his death was sudden, had been in ilelicatc health for some

years past, Patara Tc Tuhi, the first editor of a Maori journal. "The Korimakc," published at Kikihi, Waiknto, just prior to the spread of the Maori War there in the early sixties, is said to be. still alive and residing in ifangere, in the Auckland province. Patara had a rival editor in the person of Sir (then Mr.) John Clorst, whose publication, "Tc Hokio," was forcibly suppressed by Rewi Maniapoto. There is only one copy of "Korimako" known to be extant, but there are several issues of "Tc Hokio" still in existence.

The death is reported of MrE. Johanna Brydon, of Ecnwick, Marlborough, aged ninety years. She was born in Edinburgh, and in 1841 left Gravcsend for sonic yearn with her husband, and m 1850 arrived in the Malborougli province at the Boulder Bank, and from there she walked to the Awatcre. She lived at Sea View for about two years, and gave birth to the first girl born in the Awatcre district, who became Mrs. Golf. The family in 1859 took up a farm at Comely Bank, where deceased had resided ever since. She had (says the Marlborough Express) not a little experience of the stirring days of catt'e duffing. She, worked extremely hard In those days, and among the varied tasks she performed wns one which probably has never been done by another of her sex in the Dominion, which was that of going over Barcfclls 'Pass; McKcnzio Country, in a snowstorm on .Tune 3rd, 1852. She leaves 10 children 72 grandchildren, 124 greatgrandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren. Her death at such an advanced aged removes still another of the pioneers of the Marlborough province.