PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 124, 24 November 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Hon. J. M'Gowan is expected to return to Wellington from Thames tomorrow evening. Our London correspondent states that Miss Lenore Pulsford, oi Wellington, has commenced her studies in London. Dr. J. M. Mason, Chief Health Officer, who was returning to Auckland yesterday from Rotorua, has left for Waikaremoana to investigate sickness which has broken out among the natives in that district. According to our London correspond- i ent, Mr. Cyril Towsey is receiving excellent notices for his work as_^ accompanist in Madame Melba's company in tho provinces. Madame Melba herself has a special accompanist. t Mr. C. Cimino, local secretary, has re- * ceived information from Mr. Henry St. ' George that he has awarded the Plunket ■* Medal for Music to Gladys Stoneham, of < Dunedin. The winner is only fourteen, ' and was entered for the senior division for pianoforte. £ Amongst the passengers by the Arawa, which is due from London next week, are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Plimmer and tho Misses Plimmer, of Wellington, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Strang and Miss D. Strang, of Palmerston North, Yen. * Archdeacon Calder, of Auckland, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. C. Crewe, of Pahiatua, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. D. Fell, of Picton, and Mrs. H. E. Moorhouse, of Wellington. The death occurred at Masterton on 1 -Sunday of Mr. G. Long, at the age of • 52. The late Mr. CLong was a native of ' Sligo, and came out to Wellington in J 1888 with his wife and family. He was j engaged by Messrs. Kirkcaldie and ' Stains, with whom he remained twelve years. He resigned to tako up the management of the drapery department of <■ the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative i A.s6ociation, which post ho occupied until his death. uVIr. Long is survived by a > widow and four sons. i Mr. Wm. Waterson, who died recently J atr Dalefield at the age of 73, was a very early settler in the Wellington district. He arrived in the ship Lady Nugent in 1841, and had resided mostly at the Hutt ■ from then until his death. The Maoris < were very troublesome at that time, and on one occasion the late 'Mr. Waterson ( and his brother and father were chased i by the natives and lay concealed in the ( bush until rescued by the militia. When i the Gillespie and the JJoulcott camp tragedies occurred, the Waterson family , removed to Wellington. Mr. Wm. ( Waterson was engaged in surveying in • the Rimutaka, and he also worked on the Ofago and Hokitika Goldfields, after- • waTds returning to the Wair&rapa. The country press reports the death of Mr. M. M'Carthy, a well-known footballer of Masterton, who died in the Napier Hospital, after a short illness, i The deceased was a member of the Red : Star Club, and was very popular amongst ■ his club-mates. Ho was a representative player of considerable ability, and last season represented Wairarapa. He played for the Wairarapa-Bush team againsf' the Anglo-Welsh team at Masterton, and his last representative match was for , Wairarapa against Wellington at Wei- . lington. He also represented Hawkes Bay for years on the football field, and both in Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay ho had no superior as a front-ranker. He was employed at J. E. Ewington's as a ; moulder, and left on a trip to Napier three weeks ago for the benefit of his health. : ill. Joseph Chamberlain has (says our London correspondent) written a letter 1 to Mr. H. Peyton, the President of the West Birmingham Liberal Unionist As- : sociation, who had forwarded to him a i newspaper paragraph which referred to the riglit non. gentleman's contemplated retirement. The ex-Colonial Secretary says :—"I: — "I thank you for your letter and kind assurance. Of course there is no foundation whatever for the para- i graph, which appears to have been copied : into several other papers. I have not considered the question of any vacancy in the representation of West Birmingham at the present, as I continue to receive from my doctors favourable opinions, and although my recovery is much ' slower than I expected, I am not without hope that I may yet again take an active . part in public life. Meanwhile, I thank you and my other friends for their continued Kindness, and I rely upon them for the future." j