PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume 16, Issue 14, 16 October 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Wanganui papers record the death ithere on Wednesday of Mr. James Tawse, aged 74 years. Old bowlers will have pleasurable recollections of meeting him on the green, for he was a keen and enthusiastic follower of the game. Mr. J. M. Barrie, the well-known author and dramatist, has obtained a divorce from his wife (says a cablegram from London). Mr. Gilbert Can. non, novelist, was named- as co-respond-ent, and the suit was undefended. The Barries met Cannon eighteen months ago, in connection with the agitation for the abolition of the Censor of lUe funeral of the late Mr. C. R. Bayley took place at Te Henni Cemetery this morning. The remains were brought from Rotorua to Hawera on Wednesday and from Hawera to New Plymouth yesterday. The cortege left the railway station shortly after ,eleven o'clock, a number of deceased's most intimate friends and twenty or thirty Maoris journeying from Hawera to attend tho funeral. The chief mourner was the son. of deceased, Mr. Jack Bayley, and the pall-bearers were Messrs. Adamson. Greaves, Wilson. W. Young, Wliare Aitu, and C. A. Budge. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. J. Wilkinson. The service was a most impressive one, and at its conclusion Mr. Whare Aitu made a few sympathetic remarks on behalf of the Natives, with whom the late Mr. Bayley was very popular. Mr. Aitu spoke in the Maori language, his words being interpreted as follows:— "Farewell, my friend Charlie Bayley. This ts the end of man. Salutations, my European friends. It 'is sorrow that has brought us here to bid farewell to our friend Charlie Bayley. Many of our kin arc left behind, but we have oome to represent the tribes. Would that we all loved one another as Charlie Bayley loved the Maori people ; that we should live together as elder and younger brothers according to the love that has ! been given to us by Christ, the love that should stand fast throughout the world. Good-bye, Mr. Bayley." The Natives then sang a song of farewell and regretting the departure of a dear friend. There were many floral tributes. A report that tho Pope has recently been ilf is denied by the Catholic Times. "Notwithstanding the great heat, the Pope continues to enjoy the best of health, and though he may have reduced the amount of his daily work, as most of his chief lieutenants are away from Rome on vacation, audiences remain unsußPended, for every day furnishes its quota of Natives and foreigners received by bis Holiness either in public or private. 'Occasionally Pius X. drives in the Vatican gardens in the cool of the evening 1 ; but as yet he has not used the 'magnificent automobile presented to him by his American admirers, and probably never will."