PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 6, 7 June 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that Si* Joseph Ward will sail for New Zealand on June 20.

Mr. S. J. Kenningtbn, chairman of the Clffton County Council, leaves this morning for Wellington, en route for the South Island, where he will spend a fortnight or three weeks' holiday. Referring to the death of Mrs. Evans and the return to England of Commander Evans, the correspondent of the Wellington . Post writes :— The homecoming was quite private and informal. Lady Scott, with true womanly sympathy, made a special journey to Charing Cross to greet Commander Evans, and to offer to lu'm in his hour of sorrow a word of comfort and a welcome. The meeting between the widow and the widower was a touching scene. The illness which robbed Commander Evans of his wife was tragically brief. Mrs. Evans was first taken ill on the 14th o,f April, and was attended by the Otrarito'a doctor and a lady specialist who was travelling on the liner. On the 15th a severe operation was performed. When Naples was reached on Thursday, Mrs. Evans was conscious, but at half-past two on Friday morning she became worse, and sank gradually, death occurring about midnight on the 18th. The funeral took place at Toulon, the officers of the Otranto acting as bearers, and the mourners included Miss Ada Stringer (Christchurch). aunt of Mrs Evans, who had been in Cairo for a month with her sister, Mrs. Scott Cairns.