PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable reports the death < i' Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin.

At a meeting of the board of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, held or Friday, Mr. Harold Beauchamp was reelected chairman for the ensuing year. Mr. Guy Johnston, Consul for Belgium, has been created a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Belgium. Advice to the above effect was received last week by cablegram from King Albert of Belgium. Mr. C. Volzke, who was seriously injured in a motor lorry accident on the York Road recently, has slightly, states our correspondent. A cable from London says Mr. Storey, Premier of New South Wales, has cancelled many engagements in consequence of the strike and he leaves Liverpool by the Cedric on April 23, returning via Canada and .Japan, and arriving in Sydney on July 4. Mr. M. Fraser, chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board, proceeds to Wellington by this morning’s express to give evidence on behalf of the board before the Royal Commission which has been set up to go into the question of subsidies and other matters affecting the administration of hospitals. Mr. John Rowe, Wairarapa centenarian, with his daughter, Mrs. Crewe is visiting liis son and daughter ir. Hawke’s Bay, Mr. F. E. Rowe and Mrs Logan. The visitor, says the Hawke’! Bay Herald, can tell some very interest . ing s-tories of the early days in Hawke's Bay 65 years ago, when the Maoris were fighting. He had sonie thrilling experiences with the Maorto in the early days. Mr. Rowe is hearty and hale at the age of 103 years, can read the newspapers ■without his glasses, and has all his faculties. Mr. Rowe borrowed a hack from Mr. Field and rode around the property of Mr. F. E. Rowe, at Te Mahunga, a few days ago, and thoroughly enjoyed himself. As a memorial to the late Mr. Hugh Girdlestone, of Wellington, a keen mountaineer who died at the front, his tramping friends, mindful of the many happy hours spent together “above the world,’* decided some time ago to erect a memorial to him on the height he loved the best—the Little Matterhorn on Mount Ruapehu. They clubbed together and purchased a memorial stone of blue granite • suitably inscribed, and during the recent Easter holidays carried the stone (which weighed only 351 b) from Ohakune to a" spot near the top of the •Little Matterhorn. Unfortunately a storm swept over the mountain before the work of erection could be completed, but the stone was left in a safe place for proper erectioft when the occasion serves. The party who undertook thia task consisted of Messrs. W. H. Field, M.P., T. F. von Haas-t, T. E. Corkill, Stewart, Keller (2), and Johnston (Raei tihi).