PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable Says the condition of Lord Northeliffe, whose health has been causing anziety, is less satisfactory, and that he grows weaker. London reports the death of Miss 'Eliz-aibeth Bidwell, aged 91, the last of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean nurses. A Melbourne cable reports the death of Sir Robert Scott, who was the first secretary of the Postmaster-General’s Department under the Commonwealth. He was 81 years of age. Mr. William Forsythe, late of Putiki, Wanganui, a veteran of the 18th Royal Irish, in which regiment he was a colorsergeant, died at Auckland last week, at the age of 84 years. Mr. D. Souness, for some time a member of the Otaki Dairy Company’s staff, and several years manager of the Kaponga Dairy Company, has b&en appointed manager of one of the largest factories in the Dannevirke district. It is understood that Dr. D. S. Wylie., of the Hospitals Division of the Department of Health, has tendered his resignation and will be leaving the service shortly. He joined the department two years ago on the termination of his war service. Mr. W. R. Wood, of New Plymouth, has taken up hi® residence in Palmerston North, where his son lives. He will be missed in local (bowling circles, in which lie was a prominent figure. The death took place at the New Plymouth Hospital on Wednesday of Mrs. Ellen Jeffries, of Opunake, and formerly of Awatuna. Deceased, who was 55 years of age, had been a resident of Opunake for about 18 months, and was a native of Richmond, Nelson. She Is survived by her husband, two sons, and three daughters. Mr. G. G. Aitken, Rhodes Scholar for 1922, was yesterday the recipient of a 'presentation of a purse containing eleven pounds from the teachers and pupils of the Westport District High School, of which he has been pupil, dux medalist and teacher. In the evening he was entertained by the citizens at an “At Home” and made the recipient of a purse containing over £240, The Mayor and Mr. Harkness, principal of the school, made speeches, in the course of which they reviewed Mr. Ajtken’s career as a pupil of the school, a teacher, an athlete and a footballer, and stated he admirably filled the bill of Rhodes Scholar. —Press Assn. Another of the fast diminishing band of Taranaki’s pioneers in the person of Eliza, relict ot the late L. H. Oholwill, passed away at the residence of her daughter, Remuera, Auckland, at the age of 88 years. Mrs. Cholwill came from Kent,* England, with her father — Richard Foreman—and family in the ship Oriental, landing at Moturoa in November, 1841, and with the exception of « few recent years, when on account of increasing years she made her home with her daughter, had lived continuously in New Plymouth. Consequently she. though young on arrival, had passed through and shared the trials end anxieties that beset those early immigrants, and lived to see the transition of the. district from a wilderness of fern and bush, with the much tatooed semisavage inhabitants, to its present condition. Mrs. Cholwill was twice married and had a family of six children, two having predeceased her. The others are Mrs. Martin. Mrs. W. Edmondson, Mrs. Belle Clark (Auckland), and Mr. H. Cholwill (New Plymouth).