PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 215, 4 September 1908, Page 3

PERSONAL.

The Rev James Iteming, Residentiary Canon and Precentor of York, is dead, Mr. C. C. Graham, Stipendiary Magistrate for twenty years, sat for the last time at Invercargill yesterday, and received a presentation from the staff of the Court and the police force. The Post says it is rumored in Stratford that Constable AV. H. Ryan is about to retire from the police force on a pension. Stratford without this popular veteran police officer is hard to imagine. Miss F. Smith, 8.A., has been appointed sole teacher of the Kaimiro school, Mr. D. Cameron sole teacher at Douglas, and Miss J. Beedie assistant at the Stratford District High School. Mr. J. D. AVylie, the well-known auctioneer, of Waitara, died at lus residence vesterday morning, as the result of a paralytic seizure which came upon him on Monday. The deceased gentleman was 47 years of age. He was formerly a settler on the Salisbury road, near' Midhirst. Mr. Trevor Hill, late of the firm of

Messrs. Roberts and Stokes, passed through New Plymouth yesterday en route for Auckland. Mr. Hill lias spent some time in. England and on the Continent studying electrical development* in the principal docks of the Old World. Mr. Hill resumes his occupation in Auckland. . . [ Inspector Wilson, officer m charge ol the Wanganui polite district, is at prei sent in New- Plymouth on departmental

According to "Full-back" in the Daily Times, Dr. McEvedy, of the recent British football team, does not intend participating iu New Zealand football when be settles here. He will probably akc up his residence in the 'iaraimki district and settle down to the practice of Ills profession. , , -n,•„,., Mr Vincent Ward, one of the limit Minister's sons, who is " trooper in the crack London volunteer corps, Hit i Kin"'s Colonials, won the recruits

■prize for shooting at BLsrey The memento of his skill as a marksman was a silver eiragette cast. The death occurred on Sunday at Hustings of Mrs. Elizabeth Broa.lflcbl, the wife of Thomas BroadfieW, a veteian of the Imperial Army, who was through the Crimean War, saw- Olv end of the Indian Mutiny, andtheu cainc out to New Zealand with his regiment in 1801 Mrs. Broadfield was born m Kent ill 1843, and «"no out in 1848 to New Zealand with her father, who was a sergeant in the 05th Regiment, then stationed at Wellington. Another New Zealandcr has received promotion, in the railway world. I > 1„ i.i.nmnlmoni of the Mr. J 1. Mmt to the Commissioncrship of Western Australian railways, «.l Chief Traffic Manager ot that Mat', has been given to Mr, Neil Douglas. Mr Douglas was horn in 1803, and alter leavin" school commenced his career i„ ilie N'ew Z"al-.t.id railways when he . was seventeen ve.irs of age. He was first employed in the permanent way, ■ and hardened and developed hi- mus- , ,|,s bv such gentle exercises as were . ordered bv the ganger, IV culture ot brawn, however, does not appear to have interfered with his attainment* ' in other directions, for in the comparatively short space of nine vears he worked himself up from junior porter to stationmaster. filling i'i l"rn the

intermediate posts of porter, slmnter, guard, Fignalinan, telegraph operator, a .lil night officer.