PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Bowater is the new Lord Mayor elect of London, states a Lon don cablegram.

M,- and Mrs John Mackay leave at end of October for the Hamilton district, where Mr Mackay has bought a farm.

Mr R. Hornblow,' proprietor of the Mr.nga« e ka “Settler,” «*> 1“» «I«*J contested the Oram se. Iree times in the Lieeral interests. ".ill, it is reported again try to wrest the seat from the Government \M»P, Mr D. H. Guthrie, M.P.

Mr Auld, who for the past nine years has been master of the Salisbury Road school and has gained th goodwill and high regard of ad the settlers in the district, has been offeied and has accepted the appomtmen of master of the Egmoi*t Village school. Mr T. A. Lonergan is at present absent in Auckland, having been called away suddenly to attend the funeral of his mother, who died ah the end />f last week. Mrs Lonergan arrived in Auckland 71 years ago in the Westminster, and is one of the last of the pioneers who arrived in that ship. She was the mother of thirteen children, and she had fifty-eight grandchildren, and thirty-three great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Mr Thomas Lonergan.

A veil-known figure in the Maori world passed away at Ohinemutu last night, in the person of Anaha Matao, the last of the old tolmngas, and the last of the old carvers. Anaha, who was born at the Te Koutu pa, Okataina, over 90 years ago, could trace his descent from the Arawa, Tajnuj, Mataua, Kurahupo, Aotea, and Toko- ' maru c.anoes, and 'was, therefore, 0 high lineage. As a successor to Tima Kaha, the greatest tohunga and carver of the Arawa tribe, he was a living repository of Maori lore, and with his death many of the old-time Waiatas will be lost. In his youth Anaha took a prominent part in the battle of Tumu Kaituna, in 1846, and with his cousin, Major Fox, took part in engagements in which the loyal Arawas ' fought for Queen Victoria. He also fought with the Arawas against Te Kooti. Anaha -was the first and last native assessor to sit' with' a resident magistrate. Owing to the small-pox .regulations there will bo no tangi. states the Press Association. ■ ii "■