PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL

The death of Miss Margaret Cooper, the well-known entertainer, is reported from London.

Visitors to New Plymouth include Dr. J. F. Bennett (Blenheim), Mr. Ernest Blundell (Wellington) and Mr. E. S.’« Bayley (Wellington). A London message asy« that Colonel T. E. Lawrence, known as “Arabian Lawrence,” enlisted in the Royal Air Force as a craftsman, under the name of A. C. Ross, four months ago, ostensibly to secure “peace and quiet” for literary work. i The American Senate passed a resolution instructing the Vice-President to express to Mr. Wilson the great pleasure and joy with which the Senate heard the news of the former President’s recovery. Mr. Wilson was 66 on Thursday. Mr. Tan McHardy, a young New Plymouth swimmer, at a recent Wanganui carnival in which Harris, the Honolulu champion, took part, earned considerable praise, and consequently he has been selected by the Wafiganui body to represent that centre in a flying squadron, a team of five, to compete in a 500yds. race at the New Zealand championship meeting at Timaru towards the end of next month. Ho has also been invited to enter for the 100yds, New Zealand championship at the same meeting. Mr. McHardy is a pupil of Mr. P. A. Mathieson, who hopes to send a team, including Mr. McHardy, to compete for the Whigrani Shield for life-saving. A striking personality in the relict of the late Hon. Walter W. Johnson, Minister of Public Works in the Atkinson Ministry of 1887-90, and M.P. for Manawatu for several Parliaments, died at Wellington on Friday, at the age of 77 years. Mrs. Cecilia Augusta Johnston was the second daughter of the late Mr. Forster Goring, for years Clerk of the Executive Council, and Mrs. Sydney Goring, and was born in Tipperary, Ireland. She same to New Zealand with her parents at the age of 16, and was married in 1868, her husband dying in 1907. They lived on the estate of "Highden,” near Awahuri, which was acquired some 25 years ago, Mrs. Johnston, owning the Kopane estate, one of the most fertile in-the North Island, which was cut up for settlement a few years ago. Mrs. Johnston, who returned from a visit to England twelve months ago, was well known in racing circles, being a member of both the Wellington and Manawatu Racing Clubs, the stable racing under the nom de course of “Mr. Highden,” and she also bred some fine thoroughbreds. Mrs. Johnston left four daughters—Mrs. Baldwin (Palmerston North), Mm. W. H. Turnbull (Wellington), Mrs. Henry Holmes (Matahiwi, Masterton), and Mrs. Godfrey Pharazyn (“Eastella,” Hastings), and three sons, Messrs. Goring (Palmerston), Walter (Wellington), and Oswald Johnston (Hutt), twenty grand-children, and two great - grandchildren. Amongst her benefactions was the gift of a brick primary school to" the Roman Catholic parish at Fielding, fitted up in the most I 'modern method. |