PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81860, 9 October 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr_A. Jf. iumib'll, Borough Engineer, is at present iiiUisposetf, and was not able to lie present at Inst uiglit's Council meeting, Mr W. E. Spencer, inspector under the Taranaki Education Board, is at present on his annual ytsit to the llokmi dis! net.

Mr E. Bary, assistant teacher at the West Knd school, is at present on sick leave, his medical adriser recommending rest for a couplu of weeKs.

Mr 11. Kobsonkas declined the post lion of second assistant tit the New Plymouth Central School, haying taken an appointment at Meeanee, Hawke's Buy. lie was also offered a 1 iterative appointment in the Auckland district. Mr G. W. Colcrofl, now second assistant ut the Invcrcargill Middle School, kits accepted the appointment as second assistant leacjjoii at the Central School, New Plymouth, and will probably take up his duties next month.

It is generally understood in legal circles that Mr W. A. Sim, the wellknown leading Dttnedin barrister, will, on his early return from his present visit to England, be appointed to the Supreme Court Bench, and will take the place of Mr Justice Chapman, as "resident of the Arbitration (jour),. Mr Sim, who is a recognised authority in A T ew Zealand on the law relating t> Joint Stock Companies, was formerly in partnership with Sir Koliert Stout, and, wilh him, ediled (he well-known work " Practice of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal." Mr Sim's up pointment will be very acceptable to 1 he legal profession generally. The New Plymouth Borough Council has passed a vote of conaoloiiue and sympathy wifb Mrs Paul and family m tho loss sustained by them and by the citizens of New Plymouth in Ihe dcalh of the late Mr James Paul, Councillor Brooking, 111 proposing the vote, said New Plymouth had lost one of her best citizens. They Lad. all known • j; Paul—tlip snejke'p' U'a'i' tuown him fof

'lit years—and it was tire duty of the Council as the representatives of the burgesses, to express their sense of the loss sustained by Mrs Paul and family, and the town generally, in this demise I'ho Mayor, in seeonding, referred to liis very pleasant connection many

years ago with the late Mr Paul, when he sat as a Councillor under that gentleman as Mayor. Mr Paul had discharged his duties in a capable and dignified manner that relleeted credit on himself and on New Plymouth. The yoto was passed in silence, all the Councillors standing.