PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 385, 10 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. Archibald McNicol has been appointed managing-editor of the Dannj virke News. Mr. J. C. Morey, jun., has "cabled that he and Mr. Geo. Rnmson have arrive! in London safe and well. The Hon. W. F. Wigram, chairman ot directors of the Lyttelton Times Company, was in New Plymouth yesterday. The Rev. John Nixon left yesterday morning for Wellington, having be-'a summoned to pay a pastoral visit t» Mr. James Gear, who is in ill-health-. Mr. W. H. Gilford lias been appointed manager of the Wellington Times, vice Mr. P. Freeth, who is to confine himsolt in future to the editorial duties ot the paper. Lord Plunket 'has not been so weu lately, and he is afraid that lie will be unable to return to Wellington on Wednesdav, as he intended, states a Palmerston Press wire. Amongst the passengers per s.s. Rarawa to Auckland last night were tihe following:—Mr Stanley Shaw, Mr. K. Cornwall, M. F. Cornwall, Mr. and Mrs. Fagan and family. Mr. Felix Bellringer, Mr. J. Avery, Mr. Halcombe, Mr. (J. Clarke, the Hon. Wigram and Major Blewitt. lng!ewood and Kaimata .people will regret to hear of the death of Mr Bernard Mcintosh ("Mai") Horrocks, who was for several years a most respected resident of Kaimata. Mr. Horrocks died at Paimerston North on Thursday last. He was the son of the late Cantain Charles Horrocks, H.M. 15th Regiment.

The funeral of the late Mr. T. 8. MrGuinness took place yesterday morning. The body had been brought from Auckland by the ißarawa, and the funeral cortege left the Breakwater at about 10 o'clock. There were many expressions of grief and sympathy as the cortege passed through the town. The mourners were the deceased's father, Mr. T. McGuinness, his brothers, Messrs. 0. McGuinness and W. McGuinness, and Mr. A. L. Hunter; and the bearers, Messrs A. Alexander, A. H. Halcombe. R. H. Pigott, W. F. Jenkins, H. Lran and F Watson. The Rev. F. 6. Evans officiated at the graveside in Te Henui cemetery. Amongst the floral tributes was one from tne North Taranaki Hunt Club, of which the deceased held the position of president. The respect in w..K'li the late Mr. Krnest Mwerson, of Auckland, was held locally was evidenced yesterday afternoon, when his mortal remains were conveyed to the railway station, thence to be taken to Auckland for interment. The body lay in the Masonic Hall, and.. acting upon the notification published that morning by Mr. F. P. Corkill. Gffaad Superintendent of the Masonic Order in Taranaki, a large number of member* of the mystic craft and others gathered there at 3 o'clock. Bro. Win, Perry, organist of Mount Egmont Lodge, E.U.. played the ''Dead March in Saul," and when the strains had died away tiro. Corkill made touching reference to tni* cause of .poignant local grief in the midst of n national mourning, and ->aid a warm tribute to the character Kiid popularity of the J ate Br.o. Ifwerson. who had been taken from our mubt with such little warning. He spoke sympathetically of the irreparable loss suffered by the widow unci children in the carrying out of the inscrutable workings of the Grand Architect of the Universe. At the conclusion of this short but impressive address the gathering, which included the Worshipful Mnsrers anu several Past-Masters of the New Plymouth lodges, sang the ode, ."Solemn strikes the funeral chime." A procession was then formed, -and the eofTn conveyed to the railway station, over two hundred paying this last tribute to the departed. Tlk> -focal warehouses closed for a .portion of the afternoon a* a mark of respect. The late .Mr. Ifwerson will be accorded a Masonic funeral at Auckland.