PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 145, 6 November 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W._ Griffiths, pianola expert from America, is in town for, a few days. Mr. Bert Rennell, who is visiting England, is expected back at New Plymouth early in December. Mr. A. McLean Thomson has resigned his position on the directorate of the New Plymouth Gas Company. Mrs. J, H. Clayton, of Tauranga, and 1 formerly of Taranaki, arrived in Now Plymouth yesterday, returning in the , evening. Mr. T. Herlihy, for. some years Chairman of the Moa Dairy Company, at luglewood, and now a resident in the Taumaranui district, is at present on a visit to Taranaki. The Rev. Harry Johnson, of Bradford, England, has accepted the pastorate of Trinity Congregational Church; of Christchurch, and will leave England for New Zealand in January. Mr. Olaf E. Stout, 8.R., LL.B. (Cambridge), son of the Chief Justice of New Zealand, who has been studying law at final examination as a ibarrister. Mr. L. E. Mair, whom many will remember as a member of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand at Ilawera (says tihe Star), and who has since been at various branches in the north, has accepted a position in Vancouver City, and will leave New Zealand shortly for British Columbia. Mr. John Humphries, one of the first settlers in the Manchester block, Feilding, died at Feilding on Mondav, a ff ed seventy-three years. The deceased came i to New Zealand tihirty-eight years ago, ; .and took up land at Makino, which he . farmed up to four years ago. He leaves i a widow, four sons, and five daughters. ! - The death of Mr. William Findlav. formerly a resident of Wellington, was announced by a private cablegram from Scotland at the end of last week. Mr. ; Findlay emigrated to New Zealand when ; a young man, and after living for a , while on the West Coast, came to Weii lmgton between thirty and forty years [ ago. For some time he was owner of . the Waipaoa estate, in Poverty Bay. Mr. W. J. Byran (the celebrated American who has several times stood for the Presidency), Dr. Starr Jordan (of the Stan lord Leland University), Mr. J. A. i McDonald (editor of the Toronto Globe)' and Rev. Charles Aked (of San Francisco), will probably visit New Zealand m 1013 to deliver lectures on the oneness of our common interests, and to make a strong appeal for world peace and friendship. A Press Association message from Waimate states that the late Sir Wm. Steward was accorded a military funeral on Monday. There was a large attendance, notwithstanding heavy rain. All the local bodies were represented, and the Territorials and cadets formed a milir/. esc °rt. The Rev. Mackenzie Gibson officiated in the church and at the graveside. Business people closed their premises during the time of the funeral. Mr. Martin Donohoe, who has aparently supplied England witih the first connected narrative of the battle of Lule Burgas, has had a remarkable career. He was born in Galway 43 years ago, and began his work as a journalist in Sydney twenty years ago. Aiter issist'mg in the notorious De Rougemont exposure, he went to South Africa and became the correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle in the Boer .'ir. Mr. Donohoe was with Lord Methuen from the Orange River to Magersfons*in, and acted as assistant galloper to General Sir Hector McDonald in the fight at Koodoesberg Drift. He accompanied Lcrd Roberts on the march from Enslin, and was present at the battle of Paardeberg. Shortly after this he was captured, but was released on the fall of Pretoria. In the Russo-Japanese War, Mr. Donohoe was attached to the first Japanese army, and was with General Kuroki through Korea and Manchuria. He was present at the battles of the Yalu. Motien Pass, 'Townn, Liaoyang, and the Shalio. He was jn Turkey through the revolution of 1009 and witnessed the taking of Constantinople by the Young Turks, being the first journalist to interview the new Sultan. When the Portuguese revolution took place in 1010, and King Manuel lied from his capita], Mr. Donohoe was on the spot ■to record it, and he distinguished' himself by escaping from Lisbon with the first detailed account of the fighting.