PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 December 1926, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

m - 1 A Bevnn cable announces the death of Carl Eberth, the discover of the typhus bacillus.

Mrs Claire Couldwell, the ■champion Australian lady swimmer, has announced that she has retired from the sport.

A message from Munich states that General Ludeiulorff is in a state of coma, and his condition is most critical, following an operation for goitre. Mrs C. C. Jackson, who has been organising in the Auckland province on behalf of the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, lias returned to Masterton.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand in 'Wellington vesterdav, Mr William W’atson was reelected to the board of directors as shareholders’ representative. There were no other nominations. Mr W atson has been a director of the bank continuously for thirty-two years. A Christchurch telegram announces the death of Mrs John Studholme, at the agevsf 87, which occurred at Paris on ter of the late Seftou Moorehouse. She arrived in New Zealand in 1858, and married John Studholme in 1862, later jiving in Merivale, Christchurch. As a child, she was a most extensive traveller, being in Paris during the revolution of 1818, when King Louis Philippe had to abdicate. Later with her husband she was in Germany in 1866, throughout the war between Austria and Prussia. The Masterton W.C.T.U. lias elected the following officers for the ensuing year: —President, Mrs J. Cocker; vicepresidents,’ Mesdames Reid, E. W’eymouth, Ross, G. Rutter; secretary, Mrs ,S. J. Smith; treasurer, Mrs R. .Jamieson; “White Ribbon’’ agent, Mrs Weston, assistant, Miss Jackson; supf* erintendenb »of home meetings, Miss Jones; committee, Mesdames Mclver, Trevorra, White; cradle roll, Mrs Reid (superintendent), Committee, Mesdames Freeman,, Rowse; scattered and back* block Mesdames Miller and Donald Miss Jones; hospital visitor, Mrs Willoughby. Tho death occurred at the Masterton Hospital last evening of Miss Winifred May Spcrshott, who was admitted to isolation about two weeks ago its a. typhoid suspect. Examinations returned positive results, and though her /mndition was not regarded s riouslv she took a turn for the worse yesterday and gradually sank. The late Miss Spcrshott, who was twenty-two years /if age, was a daughter of Mrs Sper-yiot-t and the late .Mr W. 11. Spcrshott, of Cambridge Terrace, Masterton. She had a bright nature and was very popular among her wide circle of friends. A distressing feature of the occurrence is that Mrs Spcrshott is also an inmate of the isolation ward, being admitted as a typhoid patient the day after her daughter entered the hospital. Tho funeral will'leave G. Hyde’s |P mortuary chapel, Church Street, at 10 nail, on Sunday.