PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 299, 14 December 1908, Page 3

PERSONAL

On Friday afternoon the .i.uii standard pupils attending the Central School presented Mr. Mcllroy, the first assistant, with a pipe and tobacco pouch, as an expression of good feeling between teacher and scholars.

Mr. 11. Kyre Kenny, S.M., and Mrs. Kenny arc staying in ton n. Mr. C. E. Be.lriiiger v;a- a passcng-ir on Saturday night from Aucklaud.

The Stratford J'o-t reports thai Air. A. 1!. Oatlnnd, first assistant master m the secondary department of the Stratford School, has received a telegram intimating that the Oisborne High -School Committee has selected him for the position of headmaster at their high school. The Stratford School has lieen very unfortunate of recent years in repeatedly losing valuable members of its stair. "

The Wairanipa Agricultural and Pastoral Association lias approached the Canterbury Association, asking it, as the leading body of the kind in the Dominion, to take some steps to recognise suitably the services rendered by the "e----liring Chief Government Veterinarian, Mr. -LA. (iilruth.

A Dunedin Press Association telegram announces the death of John Pitch, who took part ill the battle of Eel-el-Kebir in the Second liattalioii Highland Light Infantry, and was mentioned in dispatches. Deceased was formerly a member of the Dunedin Garrison Band. An Auckland Press Association telegram states that owing to the serious indisposition of Mrs. Massey, who is at pie.-ent in a nursing h ein Auckland, Mr. W. P. Massey. leader of the Opposition, has. been unable to accept invitations to several Opposition functions which it is intended to hold next week ill the dill'eieiit. southern centres.

Cable new, was received tin- other day liv a Wellington representative for the firm of Henrv W. |V.,b,lv and Co., of Xew Vork, of the death . f Mr. Henry \V. lValMHiy. oni' of tin' principal.-! in the linn, whose commercial operations extend throughout Hie whole of (he civilised world. Tlu- decca-'d was not u.iknown personally in ih ; - pari of the world, liiiviiijr "Hide a tour of Australia and New Zealand about eijjht years ago. The late Uird l'etre was the largest | landowner in K**.v and n prominent

KoT.mn Catholic, lie left to lus successor (his brother Philip Benedict Joseph) an iiir.iiii.tv of CIOW. The late lord was the son of the twelfth baron, after whom (as a director of the X.'iv Zealand Company I Waujjiiiiii «'as first named Petre. Some.of the l'etre family were earlv residents of Port Nirholso.i, pnd Thoimloii was named after the I baronial sent at Urentw-ood (Thorndou Hall I, v i.u-li has been bequeathed to the late lord's widow, a daughter ot the riev Professor W. li. Clarke (of (. an-ad-.ii. They were married in ITO. The ua'ue Petre is pronounced Petlne. The thirteenth baron wa- fornicrlj a do-me-lie prelate to the eourl of the \al ean.