PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 70, 12 August 1914, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Among the eminent scientists who were to visit Wellington next jnontfh wi'th the British Association's party is Professor von Luschan, a son-in-law of l)r Hochstetter, tlie German scientistwhose name is indelibly associated with New Zealand through the valuable geological work he accomplished in New Zealand (over fifty years ago. Professor von Luschan is one of the distinguished faculty of the University of Berlin. One of the papers he Ihad arranged to read, either in Wellington ,or Ckristchurch, is entitled "The Unity of Mankind," a subject which, :the Dominion says, was decided on before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, which gives the title of th* paper a somewhat ironical twist. Mr George Lowe Beath, tihe founder of the firm of Beath and Co., Ltd., died at his residence at Ohrisbdhureh, on Tuesday, :a,fter! a short illness.' Mr Beath was 87 years old. Up uo tihe ago of about 65 he was a most active man, but for the last twelve months he was in failing health, and he was very ill during the pasjt- fortnight. Like many crtho - successful colonists, Mr. Beath was a Scot. He came out from Fifeshire in 18G4, to a business which his brother,, Mr. David Beath, ha,d founded in Melbourne, in partnership with Mr Schiess. He came to Christchurch in 1865, and founded the business wjiich has been carried on under the same name and in the same place ever since. About fifty years ago the late Mr Beath married Miss Marie Malcolm, who survives him. For thirty years Mr BeaJtlh was a member and deacon of Trinifcy Congregational Church, and was always a most liberal supporter of all church and philanthropic objects. Mr William Guerin who, as a very old colonist and a veteran, of t'he Maori •wars, is very well known in TaTanaki, died at his son's residence at Karori, Wellington, the other evening, at the age of eighty-eight. He was born in Tipperary, and at the age of seventeen years and nine months enlisted in the 70th Regiment ("The Black Dogs") in 1845. He served with that regiment in India during the Mutiny, holding the rank of sergeant, and received the India medal. Mt Guerin came to New Zealand in 1864, and served in the Maori wars, being among the trooDS who went through the Mountain Track with General Sir Trevor Chute. After leaving the Aiuny be settled in New Plymouth, where he was a successful schoolmaster, and many of his pupils have since distinguished themselves in various professions. In 1875 he went to Hawera, where lie lived many years before going to Wellington. His wife predeceased him by eight years. His surviving children are Mrs. A. J. Whitta-ker (Auckland) and' Messrs W. J. and J. Guerin (Wellington).