PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LII, Issue 187, 11 September 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Archbishop Redwood leaves "Welling ton for Sydney next week to attend the Roman Catholic Congress to be held m Sydney undeT the presidency of Cardinal Moraa. Mr. Mark Cohen, editor of the Dut»*•lin Star and a New Zcalaad. Press Conference delegate, was yesterday welcomed in the Sydney Town Hall by the Lord Mayor and aldermen.. Mr. Will. T. Cronin, representative for West's Pictures, at present ia town with the company, has the unique distinction of being the youngest advance agent in Australasia. Mr. Cronin graduated with Pollard's Opera Co. The death occurred on Sunday, 25th July, at Hygrove, Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, of Lady Douglas, wife of Sir Arthur P. Douglas, Under-Secretary for Defence in New Zealand from 1895 to

1903. Lady Douglas died after an operation for appendicitis. The death occurred in Hawera oa Thursday evening, after a short illne»a, of an old and respected colonist in the pereoa of Mr. Frederick Beechey, at the age of 79 jeara. The deceased, who had been ailing for some years, came out to the colony in the ship Castle Eden (ojje of the ilrst four ships to come to New Zealand) about the year 1849. The deceased had been a resident of Hawera for about thirty years.— Star. The death last veek of Mr. Alfred James Sanders, at the age of 57, removes another of the Auckland-bom

boys who acted as despatch riders during the last Maori war (says the New Zealand Herald). He joined the Tauraaga. Lightj Horse during Te Kooti's war, and, although a mere boy, it often fell to his lot ~to carry despatches single-handed ' from Tauranga to the Thames. In those days this meant a wild night ride from Waihi beach, near Katikati Heads, over the range to the Thames, as Ohinemuri was unsafe for Europeans, and had to be carefully avoided.. He narrowly escaped the Opepe massacre, having been -sent hack to Taupo for instructions shortly before the camp was attacked. He was a son of the" late Mr. Thomas Sanders, who was during the fifties clerk to the Magistrate's Court in Auckland. H,e leaves a widow and nine children, add hia mother still survives him.