PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 280, 23 May 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

General Baden Powell left Sydney for New Zealand yesterday by the Wimmera.

A London cablegram announces the death, after a long illness, of Mr. Julius Wernher.

Mrs. J. Sheahan, of Whenuakura, died on Tuesday, at the age of 71 years. She arrived in New Zealand with her husband 47 years ago. A very old resident, and one of Nelson's earliest colonists, Mr. Thoma» Woolford, passed away yesterday afternoon in his hundredth year. Archbishop Redwood announced at the Wellington Town Hall last night that he had received a cablegram from the Pope congratulating him on his silver jubilee.

Mr. G. D. Greenwood, who has been visiting his pastoral properties in Queensland, was in Sydney last week, and will probably take a trip to England.

Mr. B. H. Low, 8.A., B.Sc., of the teaching staff at Newton school, has been temporarily appointed, assistaat in chemistry at Victoria College, taking the plaee of Mr. P. Stuckey, recently appointed an inspector under the Wellington Education Board. Mr. 6. E. Butler, son of Mr. J. C. Butler, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, has two paintings in this year's Paris Salon, and the Salon authorities have forwarded him his varnishing ticket. The pictures winch he is showing are "The Golden Dustman" (which has been exhibited in the Royal Academy) and "Rosebuds." Both are studies of children.

The death occurred on Tuesday at Petone of an old settler, Mr. Henry Hdward Warcup, aged seventy-three years. He arrived in New Zealand ,as a young man, landing at Nelson. Thence he removed to Auckland, and- subsequently settled in Wellington, starting a bootmaking business in the block where the Hotel Cecil now stands. For some years he was a foreman with R. Hannah and Co. The deceased was one of the founders of the Wellington Working Men's Club, of which he was a life member.

Mr. William T. Tonks, who had been seriously ill for some time past, died at an early hour on Tuesday morning. The late Mr. Tonks was a member of the auctioneering firm of Tonks, Norton and Co., and was in business in Christchurch for many years. He was at one time interested in athletics, but the sport in which Mr. Tonks took the keenest in- , terest was trotting. He joined the old Canterbury Trotting Club in 1890, and ; was appointed president in 1894, hold- ■ ing the position for three years, when ho was elected a life member. He represented that club on the Canterbury Trotting Association. He was a member and committeeman of the Christchurch Racing Club, and a member of the New Brighton Trotting GJub. He was one of the original members of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, and had been for several years a committeeman and steward of that body. He took an active part_ both as breeder and owner of trotters and the colors of "Mr. R. Peel" (his assumed name) were familiar on Christchurch courses.