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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1922, Page 4

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Air. R. H. Pigott, chairman of the Clifton County Council, returned from Wellington by the mail train on Saturday night.

The death of Mr Abraham Mahon, a former member of the House of Commons, is announced in a cable from London. «

Mt. F. E. Wilson, Mayor of New Plymouth, left by the mail train on Saturday morning, having been called to Wellington on account of the serious illness of his father.

Mt. R. Masters, M.P. for Stratford, returned by the mail train on Saturday night from Wellington, where he has been interviewing Ministers in connection with the urgent requirements of •some of the settlers in the Taranaki hinterland.

The death occurred in Palmerston North on Thursday morning in hie 74th year of Mr. Charles Edward Shortt, one of best known residents of the town. Mr. Shortt recently underwent an operation for an internal complaint. An early settler, Mrs. George Johnston, died at Auckland last week. She came to New Zealand with her parents in 1848, and has resided here ever since. In 1863 she married Mr. Johnston, who was at one time general manager of the South British Insurance Company. A New York cable records the deatn of Mr. Henry P. Davidson, the millionaire, and an authority on world finance. Mr. Davidson died following an operation for the removal of a brain tumor. He was a partner of Mr. J. P. Morgan, who headed the American Rtd Cross during the war.

A motion of condolence in connection with the death of Mr. Percy Stephenson Smith was moved at a meeting cf the Canterbury Philosophical Institute by Mr. W. F.’ Robinson, who gave an account of the late Mr. Smith’s work in Maori and Polynesian ethnology. Mr. A. Dudley Dobson seconded the motion, and spoke in eulogy of Mr. Smith’s work. Mr. H. D. M. Haszara, F.R.G.S., spoke to the motion, and said that he had been associated with the late Mr. Smith for a number of years, and had accompameo aim as assistant to the Kermadecs and to the Cook Islands. Dr. C. Coleridge Farr also spoke of Mr. Smith’s work. The motion wa-s carried members standing.