PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 154, 20 June 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A cablegram was received Irom Ml. D. Berry yesterday announcing hid arrival at .Sydney in good health. The lnglewood Record records I lie death of Mrs. ,1. Peuuingtoii at the age of 711. Deceased was one of the daughters of the late Mr. it. llmidle, one of the pioneers of the colony, who came to New Plymouth ill its earliest days, where he earned ou the business of contractor and bridge-builder, his "oil time being spent on his farm at Ml block. A very old identity ol this district); passed away yesterday at the Old People's Home. This was Mr. Harry Mayne, agcil 82, well-known in the Inglewooa district. He was a ntltive of Yorkshire, and after 44 years' life ill New Zealaat, ■was admitted to the Home at the end of March last. lie was quite a character, in himself and very popular in the institution, probably An account of his active service with the Taranaki militia, *nd his love for recitation. Ife used to quote Shakespeare readily, and this, interspersed with his goldficlds' and soldiering stories, made him a most interesting companion to his compeers at the Home. He will be buried 011 Monday, afternoon. ■ ,

A private wire yesterday from l)unedin conveyed intelligence of a very serious accident to Mr. Dudley llnod, second son of Captain Hood, harbormaster at New Plymouth. Ml". Hood only left, New Plymouth recently after securing his "ticket" as second engineer to take his first berth as ,111 engineer ou the Union Company's Kaitangata. Yesterday, while engaged on board th-' vessel at I'ovt Chalmers, lie met with an accident which resulted in fracture of the base of the skull. He was 1111mciHiatelv conveved to Diuieilin tlosJiita.l. w-li'crc til tivst, il was thought there were but slight hopes of recovery. A la ler wire, however, intimated that although the case wa- very critical, the hone was not pressing ou the brain, and that there was some hope. Captain llond left, hy this morning's mail train for Dnnedin.

llr. 1". W. I'urket.t. resident engineer at Oliakune. Norlh Island Main Trunk line, snit'eeds Mr. TS .11. Cshcr as district eir'incer lor Otago. Air. I'lirkett jvas transferred to the Main Trunk line from the Midland railway in 1S!)7, and continned 011 the survev until it K comple-

tion in 10t>l. including the Kaurimu spiral. SiihseijueiiMy he was engaged on tile, Stratford-Ongarue railway. fie ,surveyed the Mount. Egniout railway and constructed a portion of the line, and ! he also surveyed the Opunake branch railway. He was then transferred to Taihapc, in charge of the southern jiortion of the Main Trunk line in inn", and later he wis given charge of both the southern and central sections of tint railway, with headquarters at Oliakune. Mr. Ussher, M. Inst. C.E., whose, place Mr. I'ui'kel I: takes, was horn iu Canada: in I -Soft. He jiriued the Provincial Roads [Department, Otago, iu and iiie Public Works Department in 1871, hecoming district engineer in ISB7. Lieutenant F. P. Evans. 1J.N.1?., -who is to take charge of the Nimroil ouM f, r next voyage to the. Antarctic, is a Royal Naval Reserve lieutenant, and has in a |com!paratively short time distinguished lliimself. 11l- was first officer of the Maheno 011 her maiden trip to New Zenland, and afterwards was master of the Union Company's sleamer Wainui, running between Pidon, Nelson, anil Wei. liiifjlon. When thai, vessel had completed her summer running she -was commissioned (0 tow the disabled steel ■hull barque Wai-iti lo Lyttelton from Holiianga. (Iwing to the' barque being Ipraetieally iinmanageablo the tow was a very difficult one', but Captain Evans managed it safely, and was complimented 011 his work. He afterwards took charge of the Koonya in her successful carrying out of the perilous tow of the Nun rod to the south. Captain E va ,s is regarded a s one of the ablest of +he junior captains of the Union Company's f 11 I' I ' ( ' seut he is in command 01 the Takapuna.