PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 120, 12 May 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

I pou the motion of His Worship the Mayor, lac Lur.iujjn Council last night, decided to enter me lollowing resolution upon tiie minutes:—-"mat this Council place on record its high appre I.aiiou of '.lie laany years oi faithful service rendered to Llie burgesses oi New f'lyniouth by Edward Dockrill, Esq., an ' -Mayor, and the Council sincerely trust that both All", and -Mrs. Dockrill may long lie spared to the community anil that (he town may continue to reap the benefit of their ripened experience." -Mr. .1. A. Titrton, of llawera, has been appointed secretary of the Normauby j Dairy Company, vice -Mr. ii. U. Kobbins, resigned. flic death is announced of -Mr. C. C. Kingston, formerly -Minister ol Customs in the Federal Parliament. -Mr. James Sinclair, well known iu the Wairarapa, and who resided for the last live years at Opunakc, died at the latter place on Wednesday. -Mr. Paul lunger, a relative, of the late "Oom" Paul, is at present in Christchurch. ill', lu'iiger, who is on a holiday trip to the Dominion, left South Aliiea about liftoeii. months ago, and will return there about the oud ol the year.

It is believed tint the victim of the Hint' Xili' murder is Mr. Colin Campbell Seott-Moikricll', :i cousin of tin- l(ev. ( U . Scott-.Uuiicneti, 'warden of St. .(jini'n College, Auckland, and a son ot Sir Colin m oil Moni ricir, who occupied the pOsiiioii of Under-Secretary ol State Public Works, lairo, fruin IW3 to ISiK, when

lie became Cndcr-Sccrcury lor Scotland. Mr. Jlouterielt was only M year* of ago and was unmarried, lie hud only been in Egypt lor a year or two. A meeting was held at Okaiawa oil Saturday evening, Mr. ]■'. McGuire in ll.e ehair, to consider the question ol raising a memorial tu the lute Mr. Joll. All |iresent resolved themselves into a committee to further the object, and between £3O and AUO was subscribe! m the room. The meeting showed willingness to work together with any

other centre. A meeting was also held at Kapuni, and action was taken in the same direction.—Star.

Mr. 1). Kingsland, the gentleman who once drove coaches in New Zealand, and who Iras risen to be one of the great cattle kings of the Argentine, left for Monte Video by the Tongariro on Saturday.

Don Augusta Tiusoli, .son of the Duke oi Kiano, is a passenger by the barque Salamanca, which arrived at Dunedin on Saturday from Marseilles. The Italian pobleman intends touring New Zealand. The death has occurred at Amberley of Mrs. T. Mungeain, a very early settler iu New Zealand. Mrs. Muugeam arrived in Wellington in 1853 with her brother, the Rev. S. Poole, and three sisters. In 1855 she married the late Mr. T. Mnngeam, and settled in New Plymouth, l'liey subsequently removed to' XclhOii. and two years later to Canterbury. taking up a farm at Ijoburn, where they resided for thirty-three years. Mrs. Mungeaui was eighty-four years of age. One of Wellington's earliest settlers died on Saturday ill the person of Mr. Alfred Curtis, oi' Molesworth-street, a; the age of sixty-eight years, almost the whole of his life having been passed m the Umpire City. He was borli in London, but when only four months old he loft, for New Zealand with his father anil mother iu the ship l/indon (Captain Shijttleworth), arriving ill Wellington on 13th December, 1840. Colin Clilray, the New Zealand Rhodes

scholar, found a place in the Scots lliigby team which defeated England by Hi points to 10 at lnverleith last Saturday (writes the London correspondent of the New Zealand Times under date 27th March). He played, of course, as a three-quarter, and though he failed to score and did not exhibit the grand form he showed in the Oxford v. London Scot' match the week previous, Gilray proved a most useful man,-both in attack and defence. His passing at times was far from perfect, and twice he and his fellow collegian, H. Martin, mulled matters between them when tries seemed certain. Still on the whole the New Zcaiander played a really good game, and gave the Scots selection committee no reason to repent of having given him his international eap.