PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18784, 18 May 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL

A Mentone telegram received in Paris announces the death of Mr George Jay Gould, the American railway magnate.

Mr J. A. Cahill has been appointed secretary-manager of the Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association and Club. There were 74 applicants. A Paris message records tho death of M. Defreyciact, an ex-Premier of Franco, at the age of 95 years. A Brisbane message records tho death of Mr C E McDougall, studmaster at Lyndhurst, and president of the Queensland National Association, which conducts tho annual show. Mr Carl Glasgow, prominent in bowling and Friendly Society circles in Sydney, has been elected Gland Sire of the Oddfellows of Australasia. The name of Miss E. M. Brown, of Wanganui, has been aded to the probationers’ waiting list for the New Plymouth Hospital. A genial soul is "Tom” Twist, one. of the best known of New Zealand's sporting pressmen, who is in Wanganui for the races. One of "Tom's” varied experiences was to be a passenger in tho Howard Smith steamer Rondondo, which foundered in the Australian Bight in 1894, while bound from Adelaide to Albany with passengers for the Coolgardie rush in Western Australia. On that occasion "Tom” spent forty hours in a lifeboat with a few other lucky survivors, without food or* water, be fore being rescued. It is with regret we have to announce the death of another of Wanganui's old and highly-respected residents in the person of Mrs Mart::a Harris, who passed away yesterday at the great age of 92 years. The deceased lady, who was a native of Somersetshire, came out to New Zealand with her husband, the late Mi William Harris, in 1879, and they became pioneer settlers in the Manchester Block, near Feilding. On the death of her husband in 1887, Mrs Harris came to Wanganui, where she resided to the time of her d?ath. Despite her great age, she was in possession of all her faculties. Her death will bo regretted by a verywide circle of friends, who will extend sincere sympathy to her sou (Mr A. Harris) and daughter (Mrs R. B. Horsley, of W’anganui, and Mrs Edmeades, of Wadestown), as well as other relatives.