PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7795, 11 April 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

m . - * Mr H>. Wynn-Williams, of the Chief j Government Hemp-graders' stall, is 9 seriously ill. r The Rev. James MqCaw, o\f Pahia--3 tua, has accepted a call to the Mar- - tinborougth Presbyterian Church. Mr C. M. Gray has been nominat--3 ed. for the mayoralty for the city 1 of Christchurch for the second term of office. Lieutenant Pope, of the Waitara u Hides, 'has on Monday put through - his practical examination by Lieut- - Colonel Okey. !' Sir William Russell, who is accom- •" pauicd by his two daughtersl arrived s in London In March, after spending *J two months on the Continent.

Mr John Boyle.. M.A., left Stratford for Wellington by the mail train on Saturday. A large number of friends assembled at tho station to wish him farewell. Mr F. de C. Malet, chairman of tho Bank of New Zealand board of directors, Mjds in London when the last mail left. He intends visiTing Rome shortly. Mr E. Finch, accountant in Mr C. A. Wilkinson's office, Eltham, loaves shortly to enter into partnership w,ilh his brother a wei'l-known Wellington accountant. Tho managers of the Australian banks have presented Mr HennikerHeaton with an addrcsJs ot appreciation for the great value he has done to Australasian trade through his exert'ioiHi in postal reform. On Monday evening the members of the Taranaki Rifles presented Sergeant-Major Sanderson with a silver tea ura! coflea scrrics as a token of good wishes on the occasion of his recent marriage. Mr Arthur H: Adams, formerly of the literary staff of the Evening Post and who has been residing in London for some tiino, is about to pay a lengthened visit to New Zealand, Hto has arranged 'to leave England this month. It js stated that Detective Mcllveney whose able detective work in Southland has made, him highly esteemed by tho law-<at>idiing section of the community, intends resigning from the force shortly. The Ohura settlers on Thursday entertained the member for Egmont district (Mr W|. T. Jennings, M.H.R.) &t a banquet. Tho Leader of Dhe Opposition and Messrs Alfred Kidd and Frank Lawry, M.B.R.'s, were invited to be present; . Miss A}||g Rammer, tho woll-known, eingcr.wfio has been an inmate for some time at the Auckland Hospital —suffering from typhoid—is reported to be now out of danger and progressing satisfactorily towards recovery,

Miss Shawl, daughter of Professor Shandj, of the Otago University, has been appointed to the matronship of the Wamganup Girls' College, vice Mrs W»oil, who retires at the end of this term. There were over eighty applications for the position. Mr L. Reich«l, chief electrician of the Public Works Department, has been granted a year's te*ve of absence, and will sail for the OM Country, to obtain a wide electrical experience. Mr Reichel leaves by the Monowai, to connect with an Orient Line steamer'ei'f, Hdijftut, Captain W. Jackson Barry is on a visit to Dunedin to distribute h'is latest published work, "Adventures and Experiences of a Pioneer Colonist." Captain Barry, stales the Star, who ■is ejghty-soven years n f age, though in poor health 'just now |s full' of spirits, and talks boastfully of getting other works through the press. Miss FJizalheth! Mil,lei', who. is olnly fifteen years of agq, was married to. Mr Frank Lapolla, aged twenty-one, at Bl(,ilade>lph|a on Febpiavy 22. Bbf.li the bride and bridegroom Ijclong to well-known, prosperous PhiltKlolphiu families. The bride's mother was married at sixteen, hor grandmother at fifteen, her uunt at thirteen, ami her sister at seventeen. Her greatgraradmother is only sixty-two. All were present at the ceremony. A 1 farewell social was tendered Miss Bccdic in the Toko Hall on Friday evening, on the occasion of her departure from the Toko school, where Shp been tho ablo and respected assistant teacher *oi' the 'past five years. Miss Deedi c takes up a similar appointment at Tariki. Just before the school broke up the children, presented Miss Boedie with a handsome dressingi-caao awd a voJumc rennysonvnd Browning's poems*