PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10123, 20 October 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Tlios. Bortlnvick, of the firm of Messrs. Thos. Bortliwick and Sons (Australasia), Ltd., arrived at Waitara on Saturday on a visit connectec} wtili the business of the firm.Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sedcole, who are residents of Pahiatua of over 30 years' standing, left yesterday on an extended trip i-> Europe. Many friends were at the station to bid them bon voyage.

His Grace Archbishop Redwood, who has been attending the Eucharistic Congress at Montreal, is due at Brisbane on the 29th instant, and after spending a few days in Australia will return to Wellington from Sydney direct. Mr. Jooate, one of the members of the South African Union Parliament, who has resigned in favour of Mr, H. C. Hull, Finance Minister, was one of the party of Boer delegates who visited New Zealand after the Boer War, and was present at the Masterton show. The mortal remains of the late Mrs Price were interred in the Masterton cemetery yesterday, and were followed to the grave by a large number of mourners. The funeral ceremony was impressively performed by Mr. F. T. Harris, of the Methodist Church. A cablegram was published on Tuesday recording the death of Mr. Geo, Armstrong, a New Zealander, on board the Changslui, and it was suggested that it might be Mr. George Armstrong, late proprietor of the Opunake Times. Mr. P. Galvin, of Wellington, however, states that he received a letter from Mr. Geo. Armstrong, lately proprietor of the Opunake Times, dated Killarney, Ireland, 4th September, yesterday. In it Mr. Armstrong states that he is leaving for Cork, Belfast, Glasgow, and London, and intended spending a month at the last-named piaee.

A cable message announces the death of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the noted American authoress ,at the great age of 91. Mrs. Howe was a brilliant woman in her day, and much of her best wofk is to be found among her poetry. She was an active advocate of Negro emancipation, and her "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was sung by the victorious armies of the North in the great Civil War. It was also heard again during the war with Spain. Mrs. Howe was an ardent worker in the cause of prison reform ; she attended the Peace Congress in 1874 in Paris ; and among her many other activities was a campaign on behalf of women's suffrage.