PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Another link with Auckland’s early history has been broken by the death on Sunday evening of Mr. William McFetridge, aged 8G years, at his residence at Takapuna. Mr. McFetridge was born in the North of Ireland, arriving in New Zealand in the ship Annie Wilson in 1*863. He took up his residence at Takapuna, where he has remained since. Mr. McFetridge followed farming and dairying pursuits, taking special interest in all branches of horticulture. He was a frequent exhibitor at agricultural and horticultural shows. He survived his wife by 20 years, and leaves five sons and four married daughters. An offer of appointment to tfhe magistracy has been made to Mr. H. W. Bundle, barrister and solicitor, of Palmerston North. Mr. Bundle was admitted as a solicitor in 1904, and for eighteen months practised his profession in Lawrence, Otago. Later he joined the late Mr. Donald Reid, of Dunedin, • as a partner in that well-known legal firm. The partnership continued until Mr. Bundle enlisted in the N.Z.E.F. Shortly after his going into camp lie was discharged as being medically unfit. In February, 1916, Mr. Bundle went to England, and joined the Imperial after six months’ service was given the commission of lieutenant. He served with the Imperial Forces until the termination of the war, and was repatriated to New Zealand in September, 1919. The late Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby, exM.P. for Wairarapa, whose death was recorded yesterday morning, was born at Hobart, Tasmania, in 1867, and came to New Zealand in 1874, and was engaged in Otago Central as a journalist for some years. He was editor of the Evening News, Napier, for some time, and was also at one period editor of the New Zealand Times, being connected besides with newspaper enterprises in Christchurch and Wairarapa. It was in 1'899, when he defeated Sir Walter Buchanan in the Wairarapa electorate, that he first entered Parliament. Defeated at the general election of 1902, Mr. Hornsby was again returned in 1905. At the 1908 election he once more suffered defeat, but was re-elected in 1914, only to be defeated in turn by Mr. A. D. McLeod at the last general election. A member of the Liberal Party, with independent tendencies, Mr. Hornsby was a speaker and debater of considerable power.