PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 132, 13 September 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. F. Simpson and Mr. W. F. McAllum -were passengers to Auckland las# night per s.s. Rarawa. Mr. F. W. Fagan is re-visitirig New Plymouth, and will be here for a day or two. Mr. C. A. Benbow, district managir of the A.M.P. Society, leaves this morning for Wellington on his usual yearly, fortnight's leave. Messrs. J. C. Morey and 0. Ramson, who have been visiting England and the Continent, returned to the Dominion on Sunday, and will arrive here from Auckland towards the end of the week. Mr. E. Short, the noted Romney, breeder, is returning from the Argentine International Show by way of the United States. He spent six weeks in England, and is now homeward bound. Admiral Henderson, who arrives in Australia this week, is a brother of Mr. E. H. Henderson, of Te Araroa. It is noteworthy that Mr. Henderson has three brothers who are admirals—ViceAdmiral Hannam Henderson, admiral superintendent of the Devonport Dockyard; Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson, C.8., commander of Coastguard and Reserve at Portsmouth, who is the officer coming to report on Australian defence; and Rear-Admiral Frank Hannam Henderson, C.M.G., on ♦he retired list, who was in command of the African West Coast Division during the rebellion in Sierra Leone in 1808. Mr. George Hayden, a pioneer Sound* settler, is dead, aged ninety-five years. He was born in Hampshire, and at an early age went with his parents to Canada, writes the Pelorous Guardian. In 1837, when the rebellion broke out in Toronto, he joined the volunteers and assisted to quell the rebellion. There was a smart skirmish between the volunteers and the rebels, but the latter were routed and 300 captured; the leaders were hanged, but the Governor (Sir Francis Bond-Head) pardoned the nest. Mr. Hayden used to tell of a graphic incident during the rebellion. A number of the rebels sought refuge on Goat Island, on the American side of the river, and close to the famous Niagara Falls. One foggy night the Government sentries, of whom Mr. Hayden was one, noticed a craft skulking along in the shadows of the banks; they challenged her, and getting no reply they set out in a boat to intercept her. She proved to be a steamer namod the Caroline, loaded to the decks with provisions for. the rebels, and would have drifted on to Goat Island. Her helm was, however, put hard over, and she went to her doom, with a thunderous roar, over the Falls. Mr. Hayden left Canada in 1855, and arrived irf Auckland in 1856. Subsequently he lived in New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington and Nelson. At the latter place he witnessed the landing of the "Taranaki Refugees," and the hanging of the Maungatapu murderers. Mr. Hayden went to Havelock in 1871.

Intending competitors are reminded that entries for floral decorations at the Whitely Spring Show close thin evettiog-' at Mr. C. Carter's. _, ~„. tj- „■.,..-■'