PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 227, 18 September 1908, Page 3

PERSONAL

ill'. C. i). Sole lias been unanimously, scilectcd as the, lay representative for the pariah of Stratford to attend the Diocesan Synod meeting to be held 111 Auckland during October. Mr. E. Gerard, Official Assignee, is in Taranaki inspecting his deputies' work. Mr. George Kiddie died at Kangiora recently, aged 85. lie was one -of the picked minors who went out to the Crimea in 1855 and assisted in the formation of the railway from Balaclava to hikerman. On returning to England he was engaged in tunnel work. He le'lt for Xew Zealand in the liobert Small, arriving in January, 18GI). Mr. Biildle worked on the Moorhouse tunnel under Messrs. Smith and Wright until they

gave up the contract, and lie then worked on the same tunnel under the Provincial Council (Mr. Edward Dobson, engineer). The death is announced of Mr. Donald .Murchison, of Springhiils, Southland, at the age of !)2 years. ISorn in lioss-shire, he left Scotland for Victoria in 1832. Attracted to Otago by the discovery of gold, he came to Xew Zealand in lgiil, anil made his way to Gabriel's Gully, but did not s'trike it rich. He went lo Uiverton, and resided in the Western District for some years. Over thirty years ago he took up some land ill the Springhiils district, and by har.l work, aided by his family, converted a piece oi rough land into an up-to-da'e | farm, lie enjoyed good health almost to the hist. The death.of Mr. T. (.'root., of Strat•foril, took place on Tuesday. For a number of years deceased was chairman of the Lowgarth D.iiry Company. T'ic interment takes place at Greytown. Professor John Churton Collins, author. essayist, and lecturer, and Professor of English at. ISiriuiughain University, lhts died at the age of <lO. It is believed that he either committed suicide to obtain relief from constant pain ■ or else accidentally took an overdose of a sedative.

ill'. J. A. Gilrutli, Chief Government Veterinarian, who has been appointed Professor of Veterinary Pathology at .Melbourne University, will leave Xew Zealand early in the coming year. The Melbourne University has taken over a private veterinary school and will curry on its work.with a subsidy from the Government. ill". Gilrutli will luvee charge of this institution, being assisted by other University Professors. A Stock Diseases Kcsearch Institute will also be established by the Victorian Government in connection with the University Veterinary School, and of tins .Mr. Gilrutli has been appointed director. Negotiations are in progress which

will probably result ill -Mr. A. Wade, ot ltalliinit, ai-cepling appoiiiimi-iit •< j conductor 01 the Wanganui Garrison Jin ml Mr. Wade was 'bandmaster ot the famous Wykc Temperance Band, (lin"land), and came out to judge the liallarat contest in 15)05. Since then lie has adjudicated at various contests in Australia. Jlr. liruntnell, who is expected liovc vei'V shortly, is a man with a varied experience. A native of Wales, 111 his early d-avs Itroujilit up around a publichouse, of which his lather was the proprietor, lie passed after his conversion into the Salvation Army, ill which he attained to the rank of-major. 11l the latter capacity he served tor some time i, Xew Zealand during the. nineties. After that ha returned to Australia and gave himself entirely to tcmpcraii.'e work, in which he ultimately accepted the position of secretary to the i\ew South Wales Alliance. an office he still holds. He has also had Parliamentary experience, for at a bye-e eetion lie o. tained a seat in the State Parliament as an advocate of temperance and moUl reform. In the beginning of this yeai lie left Australia on a visit to his native land, with the purpose also of attending tlie international meetings in America of the Independent Order

O.iod Templars, of which order lie an officer. He was also under me.il to do a. certain a'liount ol pl.il'orin work for the 1 nited Kingiloni Al.i once in the agitation ill faun of t • Licensing HiU. In. H,is last-named wo,k lie took a prominent part m some oi the largest demonstrations in <ondo. ~,1,1 the provinces, and won lor hims.-It : I name, some of the papers sp nkof him burly genial A»--ir-iliiin " His tactml, kimlh. ,et toilful platform utterances on the M" p » h ™ who' niav not -agree with all the principles of the reform party in whose «. '• vices lie is coming to Turanaki.