PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. JC. T. White, 0 f Brisbane, and formerly of New Plymouth, is al present on a visit here. A Sydney cablegram announces the death of Colonel Pilkiiigtun, cx-cw.i- " mniidant of Western Australia. (: Mr George Napier, at present in the 'I office of tlie Customs iJenartiuent at Chri.stchurc.h, and formerly of New Ply- (■ mouth, is spending a short holiday here, s An Adelaide cablegram state., that Ur. > Ilinloji lias eelehrated Ilia lljlst birth- » day. lie h.is bei'ii unable to walk for ' two years, owing to a fracture of tlie ' thigh, but his mental facukies aie keen. * lie haa lived in six reigns. ' The Kev. Kvan Edwards, who was beSieved to be tlie oldest Nonconformist minister in the Kingdom, died at Tor- : quay, (Wales) the other day. lie would f have been ninety-nine next mouth. Mr. Edwards preached no fewer than 7!)5:i ] sermon.", the lot of them without notes, , when he was ill) years old. A Chrislchureh telegrtmi states that the Hon. Jas. Allen, ivhiU in (Jhri.it- . church on Saturday, visited the camp at Kipa lslanfl, and ii: tlie mternoon altended a garden party at Opav/a, at which Dr J. 11. Howell, director of the Christchureh Technical College, was farewelled prior to leaving on a trip to England. Mr. Alien euiogised the work done by the Board of Governors of the Technical College, and expressed high praise of the Board's girls' hostel, which ho had visited earlier in the day. An old colonist in the person of Mr. Thomas Whitcly passed away at his residence, Commercial road, Archhill, Auckland, on Tuesday. He arrived in Auckland iifty years ago last January in the passenger ship Victory. He was an expert at staircase building and at special joinery work, and was employed on many important buildings m tne early days. The late Mr. Whitcly was twice married. He leaves a widow, u son, Mr. T. Whitely, of Manchester, England, and a daughter, Mrs Jucker, of Switzerland. The death has occurred of an old settler of Poverty Bay. in the person of Mr. Edward John Bureh, who passed away at Whangarei on Tuesday. Mr. liurch, who was sixty-eight years of age, arrived in llawke's Buy in 1875, and went to (iishoriic a few months later, making the passage in the Shaw, Savill wool boat (liicen Bee, which was commanded by his brother, Mr. Thomas Bureh. The late Mr. liurch resided in Gisborne from 1870 until about two years ago, when he left to take up his residence with tils son, Mr. Walter Bureh, of Whangarei. Sir Harold Ilarmsworth, who was in the list of New Year peerages, is the second i.f the family to be so honored. A writer in London Opinion says:—"Of course, the proudest woman in England today must be Mrs. Ilarmsworth. I cannot recall another case of a mother living to see two new peerages created for her sons. She is a regal old lady of round about seventy, residing sometime,; at Pointer's Hall, Tolteridge, and xi.netimis a;, her !,oi:-e on ill;north side of Il_.de Par!.. A woman of great strength of character and intellect. Ms. i.iiiinsworlh's famous son-. "'"'>• :il--»>* hj, o.iiy 100 glad lo take her opinioM uiHin t |„. |,i,,- si( , [)s ;„ ~,<.;,. various : ; ieat . ai.-crs." Another of New Plymouth's fast-dis-appearing band of old pioneers passed 'away last night, in Uie person of Mrs. Theophilus White, whose death took place at her residence, Powderham street, after a comparatively short illness. The deceased lady, who had reached the patriarchal age of 92 years, preserved her faculties almost to the last. She arrived in New Plymouth with her late husband, who predeceased her , some ten years, in the early sixties, and passed through all the troublous times of the Maori war. She leaves a family o£ three sons—Messrs W. G. White (at present in England), P. P. White (postmaster at Hamilton), and Dr. E. T. White (Brisbane)—and four daughters: Mesdames C. Bundle (New Plymouth), A. Gilmour (Sydney), R. W. Holmes, (Wellington), and D. Cumming (Auckland). The interment will be private. The death of a prominent Taranaki settler took place in New Plymouth late on Saturday afternoon, in the person of Mr F. A. Bremer, of Okaiawa, who had been ailing for some time previously. The late Mr Bremer was horn in South Australia 66 years ago, arriving with his parents in New Zealand when in his teens, and settling near Morton, whence the family shifted some years after to the Wa'verlcy district. ' Mr Bremer subsequently took up property in the Whakamara and Okaiawa districts. Deceased was known throughout the Dominion as a successful breeder of Clydesdales, as well as of Lincoln stud sheep and Ayrshire cattle. He leaves a widow and a family of five, two sonsMr P. Bremer, farmer, of Matapu, and Mr L. Bremer, farmer, of Okaiawa, and three daughters—Mrs T. C. List and Mrs P. M. Hill, of New Plymouth, and Miss , Bremer. The interment, which will be of a private nature, takes place in Te TTemii cemetery this afternoon. 'Until Peter Scott, the only son of ' the' explorer, is twenty-one years of uie. the ori-iual journals of Captain ' Kc-oU will re-naiii in the British Mus- : ouni, where they were on view this week ' (writes a'London correspondent, under ' ■date January -'lst.). Amongst the sheets ' at present on view is that on which the dead explorer interrupted the even course of his narrative to print in capitals "The role." and that, even moye interesting, upon which he has written in large letters. "List Entry" and "For find's sake look after our people." The "t's" are still crossed, but there is no apostrophe, and the last word, "people." is written with the greatest effort of all.-the last work, in fact, of •< man in extremis, whose pen has ju-t held i out to the end. Another portion of (he diaries which is of special public interest ■ is the message to the public, "Surely. ' surely a great rich country like ours v will see that those who are dependent (- upon ii* are properlv provided for—B. Senii, J.ith March. 1(112." The message '-! to the public is written at the end of one of the volumes, and on one of the '.' boards, and is without erasure, in the firm, small handwriting characteristic of the diaries throughout. "