PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs. W. B. Grant (New Plymouth) and J. Quin (Eltham), who attended the conference in connection with the meat pool scheme, returned from Wellington by the mail train last night.

Advices received in Sydney state that Mr. Peter Simonoff, formerly Russian Consul in Sydney, while on his way to Russia, married a New Zealand girl in Rome, and is returning to Sydney.—Cable message. A London correspondent saya: Miss C. M. Taylor, formerly of Taranaki and Wellington, who has been in England for some years, has been on a visit to London from Northampton, where she is interested in educational matters.

A cable from London states that Princess Mary has consented to receive a wedding gift from New Zealanders resident in Britain, including greenstone, and a cheque for Home charity, in which the Princess is interested.

A Melbourne cable records the death of Mr. F. G. Tudor, leader of the Labor Party in the Federal House. He was Minister of Trade and Customs from 1908 to 1913, and again 1915-16. He was a felt hat maker by trade, and was one of the Labor members elected to the first Federal Parliament. He was in his fifty-sixth year. The friends of Miss Amy Henderson, of the Masterton Public Hospital, will be pleased to* hear of her success at the recent State examination, when she succeeded in gaining honors in her final. Nurse Henderson, who shortly expects to visit her parents at Egmont Village, also gained honors in her previous examination, besides heading the Masterton candidates in her cooking test. Miss Maida Hooker, who was at a recital given in London recently by Mr. Frank Hutchens, the Hawera pianist, writes as follows:—“Mr. Hutchens’ recital last night .(November 9) was a great - success. In spite of the weather the' hall was almost full—quite an occurrence here where there are so many concerts. There were several Sydney Conservatorium people there and lots of college people. He really played awfully well, particularly Chopin and Brahms. For an encore (which is only given at the end of recitals here) he played “The Clock.” Am looking forward to the next one on Monday week.” A Wellington telegram announces the death of Mr. John Blundell, of the Evening Post proprietary. He was born in Dublin in 1841 and came to New Zealand with his father and family about 1861. In 1865 Mr. Blundell, sen., established the Evening Post, which he handed over to his three sons, of whom John was the eldest, in 1874. The second son died in 1894, and the paper has been since carried on by the survivors, Mr. John and Mr. Louis, the latter being now the only one left of the earlier proprietors. Until quite recently Mr. John Blundell continued to take an active part in the conduct of the paper, but lately his health has failed. He was very greatly respected in Wellington. Mr. Frank Blundell, of New Plymouth, is a son of deceased.