PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Bootten, wife of Mr. Thomas Bootten, a well-known settler on the Little Tempsky Road, Matapu, died on Friday light. 1 leutenant-Colonel F- Symons, of the New Zealand Permanent Staff, has been appointed officer-in-charge of the training camp at Burnham. The death <f a Maori war veteran, in the person of Mr. K\ank Watson, of Blenheim, has occurred. Deceased was 7f> years of age, and one of the early 1 settlers in Blenheim. Police-Inspector C. W. Hendry, who is being transferred from Wanganui to Christchurch, has had about 40 years’ service in the force. He has been an inspector since 1913, and has not previously been stationed in the South Island. A vote of condolence with the widow of Mr. James Mullion, foreman in the South Riding the Eltham County, who met with it fatal accident on January 5, was passed at the monthly meeting of the Eltham County Council on. Saturday. A London cable says Miss Violet Lorraine, the actress, is retiring from the stage, and is marrying the Hon. Ed. Joicey, the eldest son of Lord Joicey,| the coal magnate. Miss Lorraine has ■ appeared in many of the most popular ; London revues of recent years, being frequently associated with Mr. George Robey The death occurred at Trentham Military Hospital on Thursday of Lieutenant Albert Charles (Bert) Richards, at the age of thirty years. The deceased served with the New Zealand forces in Samoa, and later at Gallipoli, where he was wounded. Hd had always been closely connected with military affairs in Wellington. Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmondc, father of Mr. Esmonde, who has been barred from New Zealand and Australia, visited Auckland with Mr. John Dillon and the late Mr. John Deasy in 1887, while his brother, Midshipman John Henry Grattan Esmonde, served on lndefatigable in the naval battles of Heligoland, August, 1914, and Falkland Islands, December, 1914; Schleswig, 1916; and finally went down with his ship in the battle of Jutland, May, 1916- The Esmonde family is descended from the famous Henry Grattan, Irish Protestant patriot, whose name is inseparably connected with what is known to history as Grattan’* Parliament.

Mr. Henri Segaert, Consul-General for Belgium for Australasia, is arriving at Wellington from Sydney to-day by the Manuka. Mr. Segaert is making an official visit to New Zealand, his principal aim being to express to the people of New Zealand the gratitude of Belgium for the splendid help afforded at the time of the war, to inquire and report on the trade prospects of the country, to get into touch with the prominent business men, and promote the best intercourse between New Zealand and Belgium. A civic reception is being arranged for Mr. Segaert in the Council Chambers, which will take place probably on Tuesday. In addition to his official calls at the four principal towns in New Zealand, Mr. Segaert is making an extensive tour throughout the country, and expects to leave finally for Sydney from Auckland, about March 24.