PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 30 April 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. A. Barton left yesterda for Wairoa.

Mr. J. B. Fielder, Registrar cf the diocese of Waiapu, has received notice that the Rev. T. A. Cato ha; resigned his vicarsliip of Opotiki, as from June 30th next. The Rev. H. T. Rawnsley has taken charge of the Wairoa parish. Miss Jameson, who has been appointed assistant at Nuliaka Native School, is an under-graduate of the - New Zealand University, and understands first aid on ambulance work.

There are many who will regret to hear of the death of Mr. Edward Taylor, which took place at his residence in Christchurch, on the 19th inst. The late Mr. Taylor was best known to the public as having been the pioneer of tile Prohibition movement in this colony. Mr. Taylor leaves a widow and one son (Mr. T. E Taylor) and three daughters. There is a probability of Mr. Olaf Dillner, soil of Captain Dillner, of the Blackball Coal Company, contesting the Lyttelton scat as the Opposition candidate, and ait exponent of the freehold. Strong representations are being made (states the Waikato Argus) throughout the district to induce Mr -Mien Bell, of Hamilton, to contest the Waikato seat in the Opposition interest at the general election'.' In reply to a requisition recently he stated that he would place himself entirely in the hands of the Politico.’ Reform League, now being organised throughout the district, and should lie be the chosen nominee would he pleased to accede to tlieir request. Mr. Beil, who is well known in Taranaki, was complimented on the high stand he had taken, the.deputationassuring him that they had no doubt he would be the selected candidate.

Sir Joseph and Lady "Ward leave for New Zealand by the MooTtan, leaving England on May 24th. Alan Coe, aged about 32, a wellknown settler of Hamilton, formerly of Ellesmere, Canterbury, was found on the road near his homestead shot dead. Ho was to have been married shortly. It is believed to have been a case of suicide.

Mrs. Cress, proprietress of the IViaran Valley hotel, Marlborough, died suddenly on Sunday afternoon. Mr. G. M. Barr, one-of the most prominent consulting engineers in tlie colony, died at Dunedin, oil Sunday, aged 70. He came to Dunedin from Scotland in 1562. as surveyor to the Provincial Government of Otago, and was chief engineer of the Public Works. Department from 18G9 till 1872, and ten years later was appointed engineer to the Dunedin Harbor Board, occupying that position till ISSB, since when lie has been engaged in private practice in Dunedin.

A Press Association message from Auckland states that news lias been received from San Francisco of the death of Captain H. G. Morse, formerly of the Alameda, aged 75 years.