PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 136, 30 May 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL

•Mr. anil Mr*. F. lleldt and family, wild am leaving for Al>iti, near Feilding, wove entertained l.y 11m Methodist (■hiin-li worker* o" Thursday evening. Ml-, lleldt was presented with a silver teapot and Mr. lleldt with a hymn-book, farewell gifts from an apprwi.iti y i- congregation, who Avill sorely miss the family in church work, The Hon. Mr. McXab, while addressing a meeting at Oliingaiti on Wednesday night, was taken suddenly ill and had to leave, the hall. He has been advised to take a rest. Mr. A. Humphries has been appointed manager of I lie New Zealand team to meet" the Britishers at Dunedtn on Saturday. Mr. Humphries leaves for Wellington on Monday. .Mr. 1\ W. lloberlson, the Dominion's seeoud llhodes Scholar, has jtwt about exhausted his term of study at Oxford University. Mr. Kobertson, whose pur tieular branch of science is chemistry, is now studying at Leipzig for his degree as Doctor of Philosophy. He expects to remain in Germany for eighteen months. Mrs. John Burridge, of Pctonc, who eame lo New Zealand in 1850, is dead, aged S2. Her husband survives her, and she also leaves nine children, fortv-two grandchildren, and eleven grcat-grand-ehidren. Mr. Walter T. Knowles, of Central Otago, was married to Miss Sarah Jane MeFadden, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. MeFadden, of Cardiff, 011 Wednesday. Dr. l'omare, Health Officer (0 the Maoris, is visiting the Taranaki district, lie will be hero about a week. Mr, A. A. Wallace, formerly of the Ninth New Zealand ltegiment 011 African service, and of the Haivera Mounted IlilleS, died at the Wellington Hospital 011 Tuesday night. He wa.3 buried with military honors at Karori cemetery 011 Thursday morning. Captain Hope-Johnstone and Mr. Muschamp Earlc, two English tourists, decided, in December last, to inspect Sew Zealand's sc-eiiery travelling in a caravan. In this unique conveyance tliey toured from Auckland through the country as far as Taraivera. Two months' lishing and shooting were experienced at liotorua and Okere, and then, owing to the lateness of (lie season and the bad condition of the roads, the caravan was discarded for u 13 h.p, automobile,