PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 29 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death was aniio\irccd by cable yesterday of Thomas Humber, father of the English cycle trade. The death is announced, at the nge of 70, of Mrs Ellen Cronin, a well-known resident, who had lived in Wanganui for forty years. Mr Thomas Cook, a settler at Miwinui, who met with a serious accident last week, died at the Palmerston North hospital on Sunday morning. He was 35 years of age, and leaves a widow, but no family. ' A Melbourne cable announces the death of Mr Purves, leader of the Victorian Bar. The late Mr Purves was one of the most eminent legal men in Australia. He was a native of Australia, and was practically the founder of the Australian Natives' Association.

Mr A. Hardgreave, well-known as a Taranaki representative footballer, who was presented on Thursday with the Royal Humane Society's medal, saved a lad from drowning at'Henui beach on Saturday evening, and another man who 'had gone to the assistance of the youth was brought ashore by E. Pfankuch. This makes the eighth case of rescue from drowning by Hardgreaves, who is a very powerful swimmer.

Mr Jas. Harris, of Ohakea, has been under the treatment of Dr. Hosking, of Masterton, for the last month, in the hope that th'o combined influence of the application of radium and X Rays will effect a cure of the malady with which he is afflicted. Writing to a friend last week (says the Rangitikei Advocate) Mrs Harris says that, since visiting Masterton her husband has been considerably relieved, and she still has hopes of his ultimate recovery. That. these hopes are well founded will be • the earnest wish of their many sympathisers.

The death is announced, in a Press Association cable message from London, of the Verv Rev. Dr Macgregor, of St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, aged seventy-eight. Deceased had been Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the King in Scotland, and senior minister of St. Cuthbert's since 1873. He visited New Zealand and Australia in 1889, and was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church bF Scotland in 1891.

Prior to leaving Ashburton to take up a position in the Wellington Meat Freezing Company's works at Masterton, Mr Louis M, Smith was met by a large number of friends and presented with a purse of sovereigns. Mr Smith has been 'head fellmonger at the Fairfield Freezing Works for a number of years.