PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. Betts, of Okaiawa, died in hospital in Hawera on Monday night from typhoid. One daughter died some weeks ago from typhoid, and another daughter and little son were also very seriously ill with the same disease. The late Mr. Betts, who was a son of Mr. 11. Betts, of “Hollybank” Inaha, was one of the oldest residents of Okaiawa, having lived there for nearly 40 years, being one of the best-known farmers in the district. Mr. Betts was very fond of sports, and at one time was a member of the Okaiawa Football Club. — Star.

A London cable reports the death of Mr. Wilfred S,cawen Blunt, aged 82. Mr. Blunt was in the diplomatic service from 1858-1870. He later travelled in the East and took up the Egyptian National cause in 1881-B'2. He stood for Parliament first as a Tory Home Ruler and later as a Liberal Home Ruler, but without success. He was arrested in Ireland in 1887 for calling a meeting in a proclaimed district and was two months in gaol. Mr. Blunt was a man of considerable ability, but was one of those curious# constituted persons who always believe their own country to be in the wrong. He wrote on Egypt, India and Ireland and recently published his diaries, in which his reports of many events did not agree with those generally accepted. He was a poet of some note.