PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 79, 12 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The funeral of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Jury will leave her late residence. Frankley road, at 1* noon on Wednesday (not Tuesday, as previously advertised).

Mr. J. Cameron, organiser of the antiAsiatic movement, is on a visit to New .Plymouth. He will probably give an address .on the Asiatic question before his departure.

The death took place last evening at Westport of Mrsj, Munro, wife of Mr. John Munro, ex-member for the Buller district. She leaves four sons, including John Munro, manager of the ,-Bank of New South Wales at Stratford.

A work on the life and times of the late Mr. Matthew Fowlds, centenarian weaver, and father of the Hon. George Fowlds, Minister of Education, is at present occupying Mr. Thomas W. Orr. •> London merchant, in collaboration with the Rev. J. Kirk wood Fairlie, of Fenwick, and it will shortly be issued from the publishing house of Dunlop inrl Drennan, of Kilmarnock.

Lord Islington appears to be makina an excellent impression in Wellington. A member of Parliament, writing to a friend on Christchurch after his first interview with the new Governor, says:— "He is most interesting, and will make his mark here. He is evidently a strong man, and a man of ideas, and if he should ever have a difference of opinion with his advisers something would be likely to happen. But I should say that he has great tact, and that he will make himself felt rather bw unostentatiously using his influence than bv trnny to force his opinions upon his Ministers. At present he is busy informing himself about the various questions in whicb the people here are interested."

Captain Kynard Hawdon, who died on ■July 2, at Cihelim, India, from cliolera. was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur I Hawdon, of Underwood, Peel Forest, I Canterbury, and was educated at HaileyI bury College. He was at one time "a I member of the City Rifles, Cliristehurch. Captain Hawdon got a commission in 180!) in the South Wales Borderers, ;uhi at the end of that year was transferred to the 21st Pnnjaub Cavalry. He saw service in South Africa, being attached to one of the Xew Zealand contingents, and afterwards saw service on the Indian frontier. One of the characteristics of Captain Hawdon was (says the Cliristehurch Press) a facility for languages, and lie was for 'some time in China on "language leave." Tn 1008 lie received an appointment as staffofficer at Banu. About four years aero Captain Hawdon rode from Russia to Tndia. Mr. Arthur Hawdon, father of Captain Hawdon, is at present in Fug-, land. Tha late Captain Hawdon, it may j be noted, was the grandson of the late Dr. Barker, so intimately associated with the early history of Cliristehurch. His mother, Airs. Hawdon, who was the daughter of the late Dr. Barker, was the first white child born on the Plains.