PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 8, 10 June 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

To-day is the seventh anniversary of the death of the IU. Hon. R. J. Seddon, who died on June 10,1900. The death is announced by cablegram from London of Mr. Forbes Wins low, the well-known English physician. Mr. P. C. Freeth, formerly editor of the New Zealand Times, has secured &■ important position on.the literary Haft of the Christchurch Star.

Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, member for Egmont, will move the Address-in-Reply to the Governor's Speech at tho opening of Parliament.

A London cablegram states that Mist Eileen Ward's engagement to Mr. Bernard B. Wood, a well-known New Zealander in athletic circles, is announced.

Mr. J. D, Hcnrv, the oil expert, and Mr. Craig, of Craig and Sons, oil refinery manufauturers, Glasgow, arrive in Wellington by the Corinthic to-day. A Waikatu paper states tha Mr. ¥. Hemmingway, .proprietor of the Pat«a Press, has offered the position of Dominion "organising secretary of the Reform party. Mr. C. leaves to-day en rpute for the Old Country, where his wife Pand daughter*',. who are in indifferent I health, lianre for some time past bee* sojourning! He expects to return in |jal«JUtj';six ponths' time.

Mr. C. E. Mackay, ex-Mayor of Wanganui, was yesterday presented at Wanganui with an illuminated address and a gold albert, and Mrs. Mackay with a gold necklace to commemorate their seven years' term of office. Mr. Hugh Fraser, of the reporting staff of the Christchurch Press, and formerly of New Plymouth and Auckland, has resigned his position on the Christchurch journal, and will accompany his father, Mr. Murdoch Fraser, to the Old Country. Later, Mr. Hugh Fraser will enter Mr. P. W. Reeves* training school for journalists for a course of study. Members of the New Plymouth Fir# Brigade met at the Central Fire Statio* last evening, and presented Fireman J. Sommcrvaile, of the New Zealand Railway locomotive staff, who has been transferred to Palmerston North, With a silver-mounted cigarette holder and case. Occasion was also taken to present fireman R. Walshe with a set of carvers, on the eve of his marriage.

An Auckland Press Association telegram reports that the death occurred on Saturday night of Sergeant Jess* Sage, a veteran of the first 'Maori war. Sergeant Sage was eighty-nine years of age, and was born in Canterbury, England. He came to New Zealand witk the 58th Regiment in 1845, and waa engaged at Okaihu during Heke'a war.' Later, he was a member of a party engaged in an attempt to Btorm Heke's pa at Okaeawai, and was present at th« taking of the pa at Ruapekapeka. H« also saw service in the Wellington district, at Wanganui, and in the Waikato wars. Mr. Sage was the last survivor of the regiment.

After sixteen months' tour, covering 20,000 miles, Father Bernard Vaughan has returned to London. It was a wonderful journey, packed full of strange adventure and picturesque incident. "I travelled," ho told a Press representative in London, "from the Hudson to the Yukon, from New York to Alaska, from the Rockies to San Francisco—through Japan and through China, to Singapore, Ceylon, Marseilles, Paris, and home again. I have spoken between 300 and 400 times. I spoke twice a week for seven weeks at St. Patrick's Cathedra?, New York, which was packed with 7000. people each time. I have spoken among the Indian tribes, to the 'darkies' and to the Esquimaux, to the Japanese Universities of Waseda and to the Imperial Universities. ' I have addressed Japan-' ese society ladies, and also the Japanese House of Peers. I have preached' on the high seas and on express trains, in gold' mines and coal mines, and amid the snowlields of. Alaska. I have been among the negroes at their revival meetings. I have addressed audiences of. Catholics, Protestants. Jews. Unitarians, Agnostics and Atheists. I cam® back feeling the deepest syrnjwthv with all sorts of heathen and pagan peoples and tribes."