PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 5 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Geo. Syne, of Hawera, died suddenly on Sunday. The death is reported of Mr. Samuel Cook, ex-manager of the Sydney Mom* ing Herald, at the age of eighty. Mr. Roosevelt has refused to be a candidate for the Governorship of New York S'.ntc, says a Press Association cablegram. A London cablegram reports the deaths of Dr. Frederick Furnrvall, Shakespearian editor, and Major Martin Hume, Spanish scholar. Mr. E. L. Barton, Mayor of H&wera, will, the Star says, be a candidate for the Pa tea seat, at the next general election, atanding-rfs an independent. Mr. Henry Green, well known some years ago a produce merchant ia Dunedin, died very suddenly after a seizure in Cumberland street on Thursday Mr. James Palten, the Amerioan "Cotton King," has officially retired. Despite his recent losses, his fortunei amounts to between two and three mil* lion sterling.—Press wire. Herr Benno Scherek, himself a notable musician, together with his son, arrived in New Plymouth yesterday, to arrange for the pianoforte recital the world-famed pianist Madame Teresa Carreno gives locally to-night. General Booth, the veteran command* of the Salvation Army, is expected to retvisit Australia early in May of next year. "There is only one thing in the way," said a prominent official, "and that is the break-down of his health, which does not appear probable just now."

Note in a private English letter received at Sawera yeaterday morning referring to the death of the King; '1 was astonished to find that public opinion immediately favored King George V., who is said to be a very clever man,, who has even better friends than the old King, and it iB said will be an even greater King if he proves to ha* tact." . , The death is announced of Mr. Batrick Ryan, a well-known settler in the Dipton district. Deceased, who wa# ninety-eight years of age, was a native of Limerick (Ireland), afed came to New Zealand in the early sixties in the ship Gairloch. He originally settled in th« Castlerock district, and resided in the Dipton district for a period of thirtysix years. . | The death is announced of the Hon. Maurice Gifford, C.M.G., who was undergoing a rest cure at Hoddeston, tfefcford. He was discovered rushing about the garden fn a mass of flames. Before he died' he said he was cleaning his clothes with petrol, , and had lighted a cigarette. At the inquest a doctor said that Mr. Gifford suffered from acute neri vous prostration. A verdict or accidefti tal depth was returned. His Excellency the Governor Lord Islington) has appointed Captain Hamilton as his first aide-de-camp. He will travel to Ne\y Zealand in tjie same steamer as Lady Islington. Captain Hamilton is a son of Lord Claude Hamilton, and nephew of the Duke of Abercorn. He was adjuntant in the Grenadier Guards, and, like Captain Shannon and Captain Maitland—the Governor's other aides —is a keen soldier.

Xew Zealand journalism suffers a great hiss by the death of Mr. Joseph Pay ton, editor and proprietor of the Wairarapa Daily Timea (says the Wellington Times). The late Mr. Payton wag a man of singularly judicial temperament, of unspotted integrity, and the higheat ideal*. His breadth of vision was extraordinary, considering his retiring disposition and his parochial environment. He was an omnivorous reader, and the leisure which he spared from the garden, which was his principal hobby and solace, was spent in his library amongst, the classics from whom he derived the in-. spiration which informed his style, and made his articles singularly apt and convincing. The dead journalist, though instinctively Conservative, was ever an advocate of progression, and though hie attitude towards politics was characteristically sceptical, he found himself constrained in later years to the advocacy of reforms which, in his younger days, would have been deemed chimercial. As ah employer, Mr. Payton was paternal in his solicitude for the well-being of his colleagues and subordinates. He took a * friendly interest in each and every one of them, and the affection was warmly reciprocated. He was particularly proud . of the fact that several men prominent in Australasian journalista had started their careers in the "old Daily Times," Masterton, and indeed the whole, of the Wairarapa, is to be commiserated in the loss of so fearless and public-spirited an advocate.