THE LATE SIR ELDON GORST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1179, 14 July 1911, Page 5

THE LATE SIR ELDON GORST.

•: « NATIONALIST REGRET, Cj Telecraph— Press Association-CoDyriebl (Eec. July 13, 10.30 p.m.) Cairo, July 13. The news of Sir EUlon Gorst's death was received with every tokcu of regret by all classes of Nationalists in Egypt. . MASTERTON REMINISCENCES. ■ IBs Tolosraph.-I'rcss Association.) ■ . Masterton, July 13. Sir Eldon Gorst, whose death is cabled to-day, was a nephew of Mr. F. G. Moore, the Masterton County Clork, whose sister married Sir John Gorst. Mr. Mooro resided with the Gorst family at To Awamutu just before tho Maori War broke out, and worked nuder Sir John in th« Native Department, over which the late Sir Dillon Bell presided. Mr. Mooro relates how trouble arose over the famous nowspapcr articles, how tho Maoris issuo-.l an ultimatum, and how arrangements ivero made for the removal of Mrs. Gorst and her children to Auckland. Subsequently Mr. (now Sir John) Gorst went there also, Mr. Mooro and two others being the only Europeans left surrounded by hostile natives. The two olher.s wero tho Rev. Dr. Purchas and J[r. James Falloon, tho latter being a halfcaste, who iw siibscqiieiitly nmrderal. Shortly after Mr. Monro conveyed dispatches to Auckland, and the Waikato became an arena of bloodshed.