PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

, The death of Major-General Sir Arthur French, a former commandant of~ the forces in Queensland and New South Wales, is announced in'a cabletrom London. The death took place in Auckland recently of Mrs Eliza Jakins, widow oF the late Mr George S. Jakins, at one--time a well-known Auckland merchant and youngest daughter of the Rev. JohiL Hobbs, one of New Zealand's pioneermassionaries. Mr Thomas Pavitt, who has been forseventy years a resident of the Domin--811? one of the promoters of the. Midland Railway Company, 'isddear (says a telegram from Wellington) He- • was for a time employed by the company on the West Coast. The Earl of Coventry, the grand old/; man of the sporting world, o n May &• celebrated his 83rd birthday at Croome Court, his seat near Worcester (England). He was twice Master of theKoyal Buckhounds, and has'been a keen, rider to hounds. He has attended more than 60 Ascot meetings and im his white silk hat has always been a welcome personage in racing circles.' A member of the House of Lords for 62? years, he has taken part in most of itsimportant divisions 4ul'ing that time. Count Guiseppi Greppi, who died a. tew weeks ago in Rome, aged 102, used though a centenarian, to go every night. to a theatre or music-hall, wearing a. smart button-hole. He passed 80 years-, in diplomacy. He saw and stroked theface of the present Pope when the> latter was two years old. He had* hua. dreds of decorations. i .