Personal Pars.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 4625, 27 February 1904, Page 2

Personal Pars.

The Hon. W. Hall-Jones and Mrs Hall-Jones loft Wellington for England on Thursday, in tho Kaipara. A survivor of the Eureka stookade, Mr James Moran, died at Windsor, Melbourne, this month, agod 74 yoars. Lord Northland loaves for England to-day, by the Monowai, to rejoin his regiment, the Coldstream Guards. Mr It. Beetham, late Stipendiary Magistrate at Uhristchuroh, intends to live in Masterton, and has had a house built there designed by himself. The Leader of tho Opposition (Mr W., F. Massey, member for Franklin) is to bo banqueted by his constituents early in March. Mr F. W. G. McLeod, conductor of tho Masterton Band, has been offered a similar position in the Napier Battalion Band. Dr Anson, who is leaving on a visit to tho Old Country next month, has undertaken to make enquiries at Horae and in Europe on behalf of the Wellington Hospital trustees re the cost of fitting up appliances for the Finsen light, the radium light, and the high-frequency apparatus. Mr Frank Tait, Direotor of Education in Victoria, having completed his tour through tho North Island of this colony, has gone to Lyttelton. He will spend some time in tho South Island, but mostly in the Otago distriot. He expeots to leave tho colony on his return to Victoria about the 14th March. Another of Wanganui’s old settlers, Mr James Hindley, is dead. The de ceased, who was fifty-two years of age, was a native of Sydney, New South Wales, and oame to the colony over thirty years ago in the ship Adventure. Mr Hindley took part in the fighting with the Maoris in the early days, and held the New Zealand war medal. In consequence of the horses attached to a cab in which he was driving last night, getting out of the driver’s control, Mr T. M. Wilford, M.H R., jumped from the vehicle while it was travelling at a furious rate down Mul-grave-street. He was picked up unconsoious, though ho recovered later on He has been badly knocked about. The cabdriver, Naylor, was thrown from hit

box. He was taken to the Hospital suffering from oonoussion of tho brain. Thomas Brown, a rabbitor, lost his life in a peculiar manner at Oahinga, last Saturday. While walking aoross a road he kicked against a bank, falling into a large drain about sfb 6in in depth. His chin struok the opposite side of the drain, foroing his head back and break ing his neok. Brown was a native of Scotland, and had been for many years in the employ of Mr John Handyside, of Akitio, as rabbitor, and was universally respected.