PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7817, 9 May 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Airs Weeks, who jumped tiverljoard roiu tile steamer Kimutnka recentv, 'wiis formerly u lesident oi< llai.era.

Constable Lynd, stationed at Haotu, was admitted to the New J'h noutli hospital on Alondnv lor treu'tnent.

Lieuter.ui.t 'f. \\. JlcUonald, Xew eahuul .Militia. h ; ,s been appoinlc n adiiiti-inal ineu.l,. i- of the Onlni Joard of Aliliiary K,\aiiiiuaiioii. .I.l' 'lhwaites, lale disjiensei' at tin. .lunerlin ilrsp.'U'.l, has been uppoinu,. o the managvihliip of the Hawkc. ia,\ l-'ritndlj Societies' llispensan. Capii.r. Hi' I'i'n.'st 0-.Ve.11, of Taihapc, 1n...ccepted the challenge of Mr JJrulte■veil, of Dannevirke, to,,iide line mbroken horses for a of Xl' side. Mi (.'. Pliilflps, who iteenlly arriv d fro .ii India, has been eerettu-y to the iiie.\ , Ivaucatio, •oarti, in place of Mr )•. W. Uiemenchneider, who has resigned.

A, tl.e .statutory animal moctiin t the Western Park Hoard, held at .r J. 0. Georges ollice on Sutur-• .ay last. Mr U. W. l>rowne was rejected chairiiian, and .Mr .1. C. George hc.i. secretary and treasurer. The Kev. Henry .). lleane, of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, and Lichlield I'liuologic.il College, has been appointed to tho cure of the Wangtuiui parochial district. He was formerly the ector of St. Peter's, Jlontserrat, West Indies, and afterwards vicar of at. John's, Weymouth. The Hawke's Day Herald reports that efforts are being made to get Jlr l'irani to again conies! the election for the Palmerston seal, against Air Wood, the sitting member. Mr l'irani is likely to rcccivu a largelyigned requisition from tlie district, nid the probability is that his answer will be, in the nllirnuilive. The Aberdeen Preo Press of March reports that the Senate of Abcrleen University had decided to toner tho honorary degree of LL.D. upon ilr Duncan MucGregor, M.A., M.H.C.M., Inspector-General of Asyaims and Hospitals in Iscw Zealand. 'Mr Duncan MacG regor," says the I'ree Press, "graduated M.A. at Aberdeen University in 1860, and M.8., CM. at Edinburgh in 1870. He was r'crguson scholar in philosophy in 18(57, and for several years Professor of Mental Science in the University of Olago, New iZealand. Subsequently ho became Inspector-General of Asylums awl Hospitals in New Zealand, in which capacity he lias done excellent work and exercised a widespread inllucncc. He has tuken a .ery high position in the profession--1 and public life of the colony, una Is gincr.i.ly recognised as a most able and ellicicnt public servant."