PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 302, 16 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death occurred on Saturday, at 1 Clyde Quay, Wellington, of Mrs. Alary I McGhee, aged eighty years. 1 A London Press message states that«l the Kaiser, after spending the night at I Shecrness, will reach London at mid- | day to-day. . Dr. A'alintine, Inspector-General of ; Hospitals, is on a visit to Tarunaki, and will attend the conference of hos- ' pital boards at Stratford to-day.

Mr. G. T. Murray has been appointed inspector under the Stone Quarries Act for the counties of Taranakl, Clifton, Egmont, Waimate West, Hawera, and Stratford.

Mr. Leo. De Chateau, touring manage* a of Allan Hamilton's "Why Men Love : Women" company, which appears in New Plymouth on Wednesday, the 24th inst, was in town yesterday.

A Southland pioneer has passed away j in the person of Mr. John Milne, who" \ arrived at the Bluff in 1865 in the ship. J Jessie Gilbert. For many years be wu J a hotel proprietor in Wyndham. ■ I

Father Treaey, of Stratford, leaves for Rotorua this week on account of hi* \ health. Father O'Beirne, of New Pljr- ' mouth, will take charge of the Stratford,, pariah until Father Treacy's return, in |f about three weeks' time.

The Hon. Jas. Carroll, Acting-Premier,* opened a museum and miniature rifii* range at the Masterton District Higo School yesterday. Mr. Carroll for Danncvirke to-day, en route'. litf\ Takapau, where he opens a post on Wednesday.—Press Association. '■■s Mr. D. M. Findlay (brother of DrJ Findlay) has gone to England to ratio'; capital to work a great railway and'timber concession between the Wang*-' 1 nui river and Lake Taupo. This it i»., connection with a scheme to placed Taupo in direct communication by raikl way with the main line. A A well-known West Coaster, Mr. Graham, sen., passed away last week at~ the Westland Hospital, at the age of; eighty-two years, Mr. Graham, who wao a native of Carlisle, England, was oner of the most widely known and respected| farmers on the West Coast, and was on#| of the first to take up land in the Koka-;? tahi Valley, where he had resided fojMi over forty years.

Miss Constance Alice Barnicoafeij daughter of the late Mr. John Wallbji Barnicoat, M.L.C., for many years red* dent in Kelson, was married in London early last month to Mr. Julian Grande,!! F.R.G.S., a well-known journalist, travelsi ler, etc. Miss Barnicoat is well-knowttf in the journalistic world, and wag fori some years private secretary to Mr. Vfl T. Stead, editor of the Review of Rei views. . ■**,. A

Mr. W. A. Shanly, a well-known retf-| dent of Hastings, died on Friday, in hi|| seventy-fourth year. He arrived ial Napier thirty-eight years ago, oommencJ? ing business as a jeweller, thenee re--,| moving to Hastings. The deceased wn'fi a violinist of some talent. For soumm years he was organist and choirmaster 3 Of the. Catholic Church, Hastings. Mr.J Shanly was of a literary bent, and ijM his earlier years was a frequent conjg trihutor to the local press, . .» n «rTJ| Mr. A. Hardgrave, well-known aa Jf Taranaki representative footballer, asf| decided to take up his residence im Auckland. Latterly his services hawf been lost to the amateur game, but tluil memory of the public in regard to it«| football heroes is no short one, and thti prowess of "Shaver" as a full-back will* be talked of for long enough yet when Taranaki's football history is under djfr' cussion. Mr. Hardgravc has earned tfctt Royal Humane Society's bronze tnedri for life-saving at Te Henui beach. og| seven or eight occasions he has bean instrumental in saving life. This beiqtf'q so. the East End bathing reserve coinT] mlttec. on which he has done a goods tknl of work, is organising a present*-'! tion to him, and Mr. L. F. Webster and| Mr. W. H. Fletcher have the matter in.l hand. 1

Another veteran of the Maori war ha»i passed away, in the person of Grant, late of the 05th Regiment. De»* ceased, who was born in India, enlisted* in the above regiment in 1853, and trM rived in New Zealand, accompanied byi his wife, in the ship Lancashire YfttcbJ in 1855. He fought through the Ta»3| naki war under General Gould, anil afterwards in the Wnikato, taking parti in the famous fights at Rangiriri anil Orakau. He was awarded the Umh Zealand war medal, and was in receipt of the Imperial pension. Some weeltt| ago he was taken seriously ill, and m died, after a short illness, at his rettti dence in Cobden street. Deceased hail attained the age of 74 years. He leavttl a grown-up family of six sons and tw#j daughters. His wife predeceased hinjf some two and a half years ago. ;|