PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable records the death ofj Mr. Charles Dawson, the - billiard play* er. A New York cable, states that Miss Theda Bara, the well-known film act-, ress, has married Mr. C. J. Brabin, personal director. The death of Major-General Sir Arthur French, a former commandant ol the forces in Queensland and New South Wales, is announced in a cable from London. Mr. J. RWhards, formerly a. Welk known guard on the Taranaki railways, is at present on a holiday visit from Christchurch, where he now holds the position of senior foreman in the raili way yards. Mr. Thomas Pavitt, who has been, for seventy years a resident of the Dominion, and one of the promoters of the Midlaud Railway Company, is dead (says a telegram from Wellington). Hq was for a time employed by the company on the West Coast. The death of Mr. James Kenworthy, which took place at Patea on removes a well-known figure from the ranks of Patea citizens, where he has resided for over forty years. /The late Mr. Kenworthy worked on one of the Auckland papers as a compositor in hie younger days, going td Wellington and joining the staff of tM Government Printing Office. Later on he came to New Plymouth and established an evening paper called the Budget. Mr. Kenworthy went to Patea in the seventies as editor of the Mail/then run by Mr. A. Black. He was a fearless writer, and did not "hesitate to call a spade a spade when the necessity arose. Leaving the Mail he' started a jobbing office in connection with a stationery business, but did not sever his connection with journalism, his contributions to various New Zealand papers being read with great Interest. At one time he edited the Hawera Star for a short period during the absence of Mr. Yorke in England. His death wa» not unexpected, for he had been in indifferent health for some time previously.