PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 8, 28 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Edmund Wiotelum, buiMber, of Waita.ra, died at the New Plyiin'oaiitlt Hospi till on ilonday evening. It is practically decidtdi that Mr A. E. Jull will be the Opposition eandidatJ for the Waipawa seat at the general election.

Mr W. A. Hewitt, Strattoid managor of the New Zealand Ijoein and Mercantile Agency 00., Ltd., was iu New i'tymou'th yesterday. At yesterday's meeting of tire .Education Board, Mr E. Marfell, of Tolko, was welcomed to his seat on the boatful. Mt Marfell was elected to till the vacancy caused by the departure of Hi W. L. Kennedy lbtr England. Among the passengers to Wellington from Sydney yesterday iwae Ma' Reside, representative of the Gajden Gltoice and Town-planning Association of , Groat Britain, has arrived to arrange a series of lectures (throughout New Zealand.

Mr Jas. Clarke leaves by the mail train this morning for Wellington, to join the Maitai on Firidny for Mftlbimt'iie, where he will connect with the Otwuy for Kngland. 'Mr Clarke is 011 business connected with the Ikwy-Ricli-ard'-ion non-ro.lill-i!ilo bottie. He expects to be mvjiy fmm New Plymouth about »ix months.

A life full of adventures has just been closed by the death ait Batcliut.hia o. Mr Kdiwin AV;itcr«, at tire age. of 84. H ' left Cornwall for Victoria in 1851. and was at Cdtamt at the t- lie. '( tli> Eureka -stockade riot. Once be 'hail a. claim at Fiery Greek, Victoria, «ud mode over £IOOO in a very short time. However, he loUt. it all inside .of al)-K.t tv.'.J months, lie was one of the leaders of the Kuropean miners in the episode in I,emeu's Flat, Queensland, where the white men took 'the hur" in their own hands nnd cleared out over 200 ft Chinese from the field, lie and his par v narrowly mi.wed leaving their hones in the Queensland wilds, their waiter sup. ply running out. .Mr Waters canw over to New Zealand' in 18ft2, in tlie celebrated clipper s'hip lightning, and made for Gabriel's fiul'ly diggings. No l'uck there sent him on to Dunstfin, and there was not a dt£rgin ,( *s in Otftgo and vevv few -en the West"Coast tJi«it he did not in turn vM*. On one occasion liie iUid 9ii« mates rigged up a- out o-t fcullock's hide and crossed- the Molvneiix l« Balclutha. ire wn« very well acquainted with the late Kt. Hon. It. -I. fHIWim in the diggings day*. a.*d worked along side of ihim on several fields.