SIR ELDON GORST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 121, 14 July 1911, Page 5

SIR ELDON GORST.

REGRET OF ALL CLASSES. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. Cairo, July 13. News of Sir Eldon Gorst’s death was received here with every token of regret by all classes, including the Nationalists. SOME REMINISCENCES. Mastorton, July 13. Sir Eldon Gorst, whoso death has been cabled, was a nephew of Mr F. G. Moore, county clerk for Masterton County, whose sister married Sir John Gorst. Mr Moore resided with the Gorst family at To Awamutu just before the Maori war broke out, and worked under Sir John in the Native Department, over which Mr Dillon 801 l presided. Mr Moore states how trouble arose over the famous newspaper articles, how the Maoris issued an ultimatum, how arrangements wore made for the removal of Lady Gorst and children to Auckland. Subsequently Sir Eldon Gorst went there also, Mr Moore and two others being the only Europeans left surrounded by hostile natives. The two others were the Rev. Dr. Purchase and James Falloon, the latter being a half-caste, who subsequently was murdered. Shortly afterwards Mr Moore conveyed dispatches to Auckland, and the Waikato became the arena of bloodshed.