PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

Major-Central Codley, C.8., k still in-di.-aiosod, and has been unable to all-Mill to his regular duties. Mr. J. W. Kay. national secretary of the i leetoral branch of the United Labor Par;.;.-, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Archbishop Redwood lias taken a passage by the Miirania, which leaves Auckland for Vancouver on .September 23. The Archbishop proceeds Home via America, returning to New Zealand via. the Suez Canal.

Mr. William Bell, a gold miner in the early days, died in the hospital at Gore on .Monday, aged eighty-nix years. He was unmarried, and arrived in New Zealand in lStil!. being associated for many years with So ithland goldiiekls, eventually removing to Waiknia. ■Mr. W. Crowe, of Lepperton, will leave for the Old Country some time in March or early in April. Mr. Crowe visited England only two years ago. He goes on this occasion to his native village, Wyndermere, in the Lake district, and he may possibly settle down there for all time.

.Mr. William Crowe, who arrived in. L\ Helton in 1803, died at (Jore ou Monday, aged eighty years. lie "was for many years a farmer in the Ellesmere district. Canterluiry. and Mibsequently in Walrio and Cattle. Llal districts, Southland. Defeased retired a dozen years ago. He was appointed a Justice of the, Peace fifteen years ago. lie leaves a widow, three, sons, and five daughters. The statue of Florence Nightingale which is being erected as an appreciative memorial from the City of London in the Guildhall is almost completed now by the sculptor, Mr. Walter Merrett, and is described as a very beautiful example of sympathetic statuary (write* a London correspondent under date August i). It is three feet in height, and shows- Miss Nightingale as the famous "Lady of the Lamp," setting out on one of her deeds of mercy, carrying in one, hand a light, while the other hand shields her eyes from its glare.

Messrs. 11. 1). Bell, K.C., .lames Allen, W. 11. Herrieu, R. h. Rhodes and Dr. Pomare, the members of the present Ministry who are graduates of a university, have accepted an invitation from the Victoria College Graduates' Association to be present on Saturday next at a dinner at the Hotel, Windsor. .Thefunction is being arranged with the object of furthering the, cause on behalf of which the Hon. James Bryee spoke on his recent visit to New Zealand, viz., a closer alliance between the Parliament of the land and the National University. The all'air follows the precedents of English public life, but is quite a new departure so far as this country is concerned. Dominion.

A London correspondent writes under date August 2:—A melancholy incident in New Zealand's maritime history is recalled by the death this week, at ithe age of sixty-seven, of Mr. Charles George Brooke-Hunt, the bust surviving officer of HALS. Orpheus, which was wrecked on the West Coast in February, ISOJi The Orpheus, a steam corvette of "21 guns and ITOli tons, was making a round of the stations under Commander Burnett when she ran on the bar of the harbor at Manukau and became a total wreck, with the loss of her commander, 23 officers and Kid sailors, marines and boys. Seventy members of the crew were 'rescued, the majority by the men of the Wonga\Vonga, a small steamer, whose captain on arrival found heavy sea.s breaking clear over the Orpheus half-way up the riggino-. All the.officers and men had climbed on to the rigging, the commander, with his young officers, being on the mizzen-top. As the flood tide rose the masts fell away one by one. Those who sought refuge in the tops were heard cheering and encouraging each other as they fell. Fragments of spars and large masses of wreck were carried inshore by the tide with members of t'he crew clinging to them in the last stages of exhaustion.