PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 September 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

| Mr. J. It. Ilill has been appointed to represent the Taranaki County Council on tlie F.ginont National Park Board. I Mis Parata, wife of Mr Parata, M.11.R. for the Southern Maori District, is dead. i The death of Mr P. 1?. Smith, formerly Registrar of Deeds at Dunediit, is announced.

The llev. Herbert Reeve, Home Mission priest, Taranaki, has accepted a ,0:111 to the Church of Holy Sepulchre, 'Auckland.

Mr. .1. Boon, sen., was a passenger last night for Onehunga, en route to 'Auckland, Tauranga, Helensville, and jother northern ports, lie expects to be away for five or six weeks. I Mr Stephen James, of Kent road, who was impaled as the result ot being thrown out of his trap last Saturday week, died in the Hospital yesterday. An inquest will be held this afternoon at 2.20.

A London cable announces the death of Mr David Mclvor, member for the House of Commons for the ICirkdale division of Liverpool. Deceased was senior partner in the steamship company of David Mclvor and Co. Mr T. A. Fraser, who retired from the posiiton of Inspector of Stock at Nelson a short time, ago, died at Dimedin yesterday, says a Press wire. Do» ceased, who was a brother of Mr J. F. M- Fraser, Crown Prosecutor in Dunedin, came to the colony in 1858. He leaves a widow and two sons. Tlie Hon. Walter W. Johnston disd on Saturday afternoon,"aged 08 years. Ho had been ill from Tniluenza for three weeks. Deceased arrived in the colony with his parents in 1841. He was a son of the late Hon. John Johnston, who held oflice in the Stafford Ministry and founded the firm of Johnston and Co., in Wellington. The late Walter Johnston was Postmaster-Gene-ral and Commissioner of Telegraphs in the Hall Ministry until 1882, when he became Minister of Public Works, Post-master-General and Commissioner of Telegraphs in the Whitaker Government. He was also a member of the Atkinson Ministry. Formerly he held a seat on the Bank of New Zealand directorate.

Many friends, particularly Scots, throughout Taranaki, and in various parts of the colony, will learn with rogret of the death, which occurred at I'ahiatua Hospital on Sunday, of Mr. 11. McTavish, of Eltham. Deceased was a warm-hearted, kindly Scotsman beloved for his manly qualities by nil with whom he came in contact. As an exponent of bag-pipe music ho was known from end to end of the colony, and had Tjeen prominently connected with Christchurch, Wanganui and Taranaki Pipe Bands. He was a schoolmate of the late General Sir Hector MacDonald, and the two renewed a warm acquaintanceship when that illustrious soldier visited the colony some years ago. Mr McTavish (met with a slight accident to one of his legs some few years ago, the dread malady of cancer resulting. Several operations were performed, and ultimately the leg was amputated. For a time he seemed to recover, but it was only temporary, and after disposing of his business at T.iili'ipe a few months ago, he returned to Eltham. Specialist treatment at Masterton and Pahiatua merely prolonged the agony from whieli he was happily released on Sunday. He is sm-vivM by a widow and large family. The funeral takes place on Wednesday, but it is not known whether at Pahiatua (where his brother resides) or at Eltham.