PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

The death at the age of 70 years of Dr. Darcy Irvine, Anglican Bishop of Sydney, is reported by the Press Association.

Mr. W. A. Redmond, a member of the Dail, collapsed and died at a friend’s funeral at Waterford, says a Dublin cable.

The death, has occurred of Mr. Jeremiah MacVeagh, M.P. for South Down, from heart failure, states a cable from London. He was a well-known journalist for the London Daily News and prominently identified himself with Irish politics.

The 100th birthday of Mrs. Henry Mahon Jervis will be celebrated to-day at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. P. R. Fraser, St. Stephen’s Avenue, Auckland, and a party has been arranged in honour of the anniversary. Four generations of the family will be represented at the gathering, to which about 60 guests have been invited. Mrs. Jervis came to New Zealand in 1849 as a girl of 17, being landed on the beach at the foot of Shortland Street. Six years after her arrival in Auckland Miss Dodds, as Mrs. Jervis then was, married, Mr. Henry Mahon Jervis, who had arrived in Auckland soon after it was founded by Governor Hobson. All Mrs. Jervis’ life since her arrival in New Zealand has been spent in Auckland, except for occasional trips. Three daughters and two sons of Mrs. Jervis’ ten children are still living. They are Mrs. L. Rees, Mrs. W. Goldsworthy and Mrs. P. R. Fraser, and Messrs. F. M. and N. M. Jervis, of Auckland. There are 19 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.

The death occurred at Dunedin on Saturday night, at the age of 82 years, of the Rev. Dr. Rutherford Waddell, for many years minister of St. Andrew’s Church, and one of the foremost literary men in New Zealand. A scholar of outstanding attainments and a man of deep human understanding, Dr. Waddell exercised enormous influence for good from the pulpit and with his pen, and in the whole of his life lie retained to the very end those faculties which earned him the distinction and regard in which he was held. Dr. Waddell was the son of the Rev. Hugh Waddell, and was born at Glenarm, County Antrim, Ireland. He entered Queenh University and graduated B.A. in 1874 and M.A. in the following year. He studied theology for three years in the Presbyterian Theological College, Belfast, and arrived in New Zealand in 1877. He was minister of Prebbleton and Lincoln for about 18 months and. became minister of St. Andrew’s, Dunedin, in 1879. He retired in 1921. Dr. Waddell took much interest in social questions. He was one of the founders of the Dunedin Free Kindergarten Association and. was founder and editor for seven years of the Christion Outlook, Methodist and Congregationalist Churches of New Zealand. He received the degree of doctor of divinity from the General Assembly of the Theological College, Belfast, in 1897.