PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 59, 30 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

An Australian cable advises that Mr. W. H. Holmes, assistant manager of tlu New Zealand Insurance Company, has been appointed Victorian State Insurance Commissioner. Mr. J. E. Richardson, ».t present employed as art master under the Wanganui Education Board, has been appointed art master at the Napier Technical College to succeed Mr. J. B. Godson, A London cablegram announces the death of Major Eustace Loder, a. wellknown owner of race horses. Major Loder won the Derby with Spearmint in ISH)G, and the Oaks, St. Leger and 1000 Guineas in 1904 with Pretty Polly.

The funeral of Mr. and 9fe. iW. E. ; Bloomflehl and Miss Hilda B!oomfield, ' victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster, was held yesterday, Mr. Bloo'Dfield being buried with military honors. Representatives of many public bodies attended, and thousands lined the streets. Colonel Logan represented th.' Governor, and Colonel Braithwaite represented General Godley. An interesting link with the history of this coast has been severed by bhle death of Mr. Wra. Treweek, which occurred at his residence, Park road. Palmcrslon North, on Monday (says the Manawatu Standard). He was born in Taranaki on July 27, 1845. Mr. Treweek was the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs John Treweek, early settlers in Taranaki. While he was yet a boy Jiiis parents left TaranaW to'take up the Kai Iwi station on the Wanganui river. During the troubles with the Maoris in those days Kai Iwi station was the furthest outpost of the Wanganui settlement, and whenever an approach of the Maoris was'threatened young Treweek used to ride to Wanganui and give the alarm. The family removed to Otago where the late Mr'Treweek entered the butchering trade in Dunedin, and in the sixties returned to the North Island to follow his business. During the second Maori war he supplied the British troops with meat under contract with the Government during the operations in Taranaki. Subsequent to the end of the war Mr. Treweek entered into business in Patea. About 25 years ago lie went to Palmerston, where he resided to the time of Ms death. He was an expert judge of sheep and cattle, and was well-known as one of the best buyers of stoclc on the coast. Mr. Treweek was often called upon to judge at shows in the Waira'rapa and Waikato. His only sister is Mrs. Symes, wife, of Mr. W. Sjmcs, ex-M.P. for Patea and Stratford. His /five surviving brothers are: Charles, of the Post and Telegraph Department; George, farmer of Ngaere;_ Joseph, Customs Department, Adelaide; James, lately a railway inspector of Invercargill; and Frederick, Inspector of Permanent Way, Paltoereton