PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., leaves for Wellington this morning for the opening of the session of Parliament, which takes place on Thursday.

Mr. T. A. Butler, one of the victims of Sunday’s drowning accident, was shipping clerk at Wellington for the Vacuum Oil Company. He was married only recently. Mr. J. Piper (another victim) was stevedore for Mr. E. Scotland, of Wellington, and was a widelyknown figure on the Wellington waterfront.

A cablegram has been received by the Governor-General from Mr. Massey reporting the arrival of the party at Honolulu on Saturday all well. This will bring Mr. Massey to Auckland on the due date (September 30). The Prime Minister .will go to 'Wellington by express, which is due there on Monday, Octo’ber 3, at midday.

After forty-three years’ service in the police constabulary and the police force, an old and highly-respected member of the force, Constable J. Cavanagh, died at Ngomawahia. The late constable saw service in the old Armed Constabulary as a dispatch rider in the Taranaki and Urewera districts during the troublous times between 1879 and the middle ’eighties. Later he was transferred as a trooper to Tauranga, and. thence to Ngaruawahia, where he had been stationed for over thirty years.

The friends of Chief-Detective Peter McMahon, of Auckland, will regret to learn that he is seriously ill in the Auckland Hospital, where he was admitted on Saturday, following a sudden seizure at his home. He went out to the kitchen shortly before 7 a.m., and then returned to bed. Some little time afterwards Mrs. McMahon spoke to her husband, asking whether he was going to town early, and received no response. Tt was then found that Mr. McMahon was speechless. Medical aid was hastily summoned, when it was found that the chief-detective was suffering from a paralytic seizure, and arrangements were at once made for his removal to the Auckland Hospital, where he is now lying in a. serious condition. On being seen last evening the Hon. A. M. Myers stated that tis he had not yet quite recovered irom the effects of his recent accident, the result of a fall from a tram car, it would be impossible for him to be present at the opening o f Parliament on Thursday, and he was applying for a fortnight’s leave of abence. “As to the future,” added Mr. Myers, “I am consulting my medical adviser and until I hear from him I have no further statement to make.” Mr. Myers was interviewed in view of a Press Association message from Wellington suggesting that his resignation was possible.—Press Association.