PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 147, 30 September 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

It is stated that Dr. Findlay New Zealand shortly on a t4*'^ l 'J!ii& • . land, via Australia. \H"?-**j •-'. i' A Sydney cablegram says Hon. Geo. Fowlds has left for Melbourne. During yesterday lie was entertained a party of ex-New ZeanJanders to a hat- ■ bar excursion. t ' ■ \ : Sergeant Haddrell left New Ply- 1 *' l mouth yesterday for the south oa a »i month's leave, and in his absence De» ' tective Boddom. is in charge of New IPlyimouth police district. A Hastings telegram states that at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay Presbytery yesterday morning the Rev. P. B. Fraser, of Loveil's Flat, Otago, was nominated as next Moderator of the Assembly. ' ' The death occurred on Wednesday of Mr. Clem Bamsden, postmaster of Newbury, He was twenty-two years of age and was a son of Mr. Ramaden, manager ' * of the Petone Woollen Mills. Deceased was a suff-vcr from appendicitis, and underwent ; n operation for this-com* plaint in Palnierston recently. f At Little Akaroa on 20th inat., the death occurred of Mr. Robert Marshall, who had been resident on Bank's Peninsula for fifty-three years. Mr. Marshall, who was eighty-six years of age at the time of his death, was a Edinburgh. In spite of his great age, Mr. Marshall was very, active, and not very long ago he walked into Akoroa and home again the same day—a distance of more than thirty miles. News has been received in Ohrist(hurch that Mr, A. Selwyn Bean, BJL (Oxon), only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beam, of Christchurch, was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Gloucester on Sunday. The Rev. Selwyn BeariJ who for the past four years has been 'studying at Keible College, Oxford, and at*he Clergy School, Leedls, has accepteoa curacy at Rugby, England, and will take up work there immediately. Mr. J. H. A. Pike, the young Australian wireless expert, of Arncliffe (Syd* ney), who has on many occasions distinguished himaelf by establishing new records, has been appointed to the posifciAi ' of wireless officer of the Canadfon-AjS-tralian mail steamer Manuka. H# list . '' Sydney on ihiis first trip to Vancouver jfi ■ Monday last. Mr. Pike intends to'mdSe a series of long-distance experiments A stations at Randwiek and Arncliffe, iK $- hopes to eclipse all this prcviousigHgtiSlta ■'. At the conclusion of .the annutttinfl3&' ing of the Fitzroy* Bowling <Jh*\ Itf* night a presentation of a silver bmmjm ■" jug w*s made to Mr.' W. Healy, SjragSUk . ilia secretary, as a slight tokJBHHEb > members' appreciation eff the""nH9HP' terest he had displayed in the cnffltfjfflff" the valuable services he had rendewa' ; -, during his two years in the seoretan-sWji. In making the presentation, the ciaS* man referred to the;uphill 4rork of 3fe ■ . '-"> Healy, anil said that but for him the . club could hardly have continued. In replying. Mr. Healy offered 1 the dnb to. pair of ibowk as a prize during the com ing season* T^ Many will regret to hear of the death at Dnnedin early on Monday of the Rev. J. Gordon MeLeml, a Presbyterian minister, who had been sealed at Pukerau, « weston'Und Cromwell. He was recently supplying the pulpit of the Glenomara charge. On Sunday, September 11, he preached at three stations, flnishing ait •- Romahapa, after which, when' riding to where ho was residing, he met a violent nails,torm, which soaked,and chilled him." Being weak from influenza <md complications setting in, he had not sufficient strength to fight against the'illne«s. He is survived by a widow and two childgirl of five years and a boy not yet two years.-Otago Daily Times. The death is announced at' Utakam ' Bay of Islands, of Mrs. 1 Joseps Gower who saw much of the early settlement of New Zealand. Her father -the late Mr John Pugjh, arrived at Russell in 1887 and lived at *he mission station, PaW until 1845, when he moved with his family for safety to Sydney, the socking of Kororareka. He returned a year later, and in 1850 weat to Hwb in Waimate North, Mrs. Gowert child- s • hood was (says the Auckland. Herald)' passed in the troublous times of Heke's war, the battle of Ohoewai having been fought within a few miles x»f her noma One day an insane Maorifcnßljisiinto their house, nr nndJshin<(jMHbaHflM|L snatch up ; jhej'* ifw^affiSWfflßfft Mrs. air, the mother little Hbr'h'rij'nilrqi dibMffliMnK'jW / tunntely M?.. Pugfo and, learning of the cautiously opened the ' and secured the sleeping child, white the madman was busy demolishing the con- „- tents of the kitchen. After a time.help arrived, and with considerable difficulty ■{. the Maori was secured and taken away. ~v . ■ Tv -1* It is computed that nearly seven-tentHl ' ' of the inhabitants of Masterton havfc' ,' been afflicted with influeraa during tJ» -.'.' past couple of months. : ■;". \