PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Bishop Sprott, of Wellington, who has been visiting the Taranaki portion of his diocese, left Eltham yesterday by tho afternoon train. Gisborne reports the death of Captain A. F. Hardy, aged 80. He was a grandson of Sir Thos. Hardy, one of Nelson's captains. He 'had been a resident in the Gisborne district for 50 voarfl, He saw service in the Maori War. A London cablegram states that Lieutenant Michael "Mac Master, of the battleship New Zealand, has been married to Miss Jean Greeba Quane, of Chnstclmrch. Lord Jellicoe gave the bride awav and Padre Cricks, of the New Zealand Forces, officiated.' Mr. A. F. Batv died suddenly at Mnnaia on Saturday morning. lie had been for some years on the clerical staff of the Kaupokonui Dairy Company. Mrs. Bates is a daughter of Mr. David Knight, of Taranaki, who is well known in Taranaki. Mr. George Allport, late Secretary for Marine, died on the Ulimaroa, en route to Sydney (says a telegram from Wellington). Mr. and Mrs. Allport were making a long anticipated trip to London to meet their only child, Mrs. Strauchon. The deceased was sixty-six years of age. His heart was known to have been failing for some time. Major-GeneTal Sir Alfred Robin, who has been performing' the duties of Adniinistratrtr of Samoa for the past -three months, returned to, Wellington on Saturday. From a military and naval point of view, General Robin' does not place any strategic value on Samoa, which has no harbors. Even Pago Pago, in American Samoa, was a small harbor that was not safe from a naval point of view, as any vessel sheltering there could be shelled with ease from outside. Major-General Robin is to submit a report to the Government shortly, giving iiis views on matters of the administration of Samoa under the mandate.

A well-known figure in journalistic circles, Mr. P. J. Dunne, died at Wellington last week. The late Mr. Dunne commenced liis journalistic career on the <New Zealand Times under the late Mr. Chantrey Harris and Mr. C. Rous Marten, and was afterwards identified with journalism in Central Otago; For a number of years he was editor of the West Coast Times, and, returning to the North Island, he was editor of the Horowhenua Cnronicle, Levin, and for some years before his death had been proprietor of the Ohakune Times and. Waimarino County Gazette. He was a senior member of the Ohakune Borough Council, a member of the district Repatriation Board, and widely associated with the conduct of public affairs in that part of the island. He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Gribben, of Hokitika, 'but 110 fam-, iiy.

The number of the veritable pioneers of the Moa district was again reduced yesterday by. the death of Mrs. E. Allemann, which took place at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. D. F. Hellier, Inglewood. The late Mrs. Allemann was one of those who experienced all the privations incidental to the life of the first settlers in the "'way back" of a bush country. Having arrived tl/ere with her husband, the late Mr. John Allemann, and her three eldest children, in 1875, she courageously faced, and patiently put up with, all the difficulties and discomforts of the years that passed while the district was being converted from a wilderness of virgin bush to a land of smiling, prosperous homesteads. Since reaching Inglewood two more children were added to the family, the elder of whom, now Mrs. 15. Nicholls, is said to be the first born daughter in this new addition to the settled area of Tara-' naki. The family came out in the ship Halcione from England, having started from their native home, Thusis, on the Rhine, in Switzerland. Three sons, two daughters, and fifteen grand-children survive, and to them is tendered the sympathy of a large circle of friends, including not a few of their parents' shipmates to these shores, who are still resident in Taranaki.