PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 323, 14 January 1909, Page 3

PERSONAL

Ili.i Worship the Ma> ■or has received a telegraphic message from Lieutenant Knox, who is to lecture here to-mor.row

night under the auspices of the Navy i l-eajruc, that he will arrive by to-night'* I'xpn-s-,, accompanied by Mr. C. W. P'llmer, secretary of the Wellington branch. Lieutenant Kuox will have Witii him Njlmiu'i) famous signal and a valuable n-t of maps. etc. .Mr. .1. K. |,a.\v, headmaster of the Manaia hcliool, is spending a few dliv* in New Plymouth. .Mr. A. P. O'Leary, lmmager of the Melbourne Clothing -Company, leaves t h ,: s for Wellington, en route for Knyhuid and the Continent, ou a combined business and pleasure .trip, lie expects to lie absent for about six months. The death is announced at lUmsay Lodjge. Dunedin, of Mr. John William haing. aged 8# years, and father of Messrs. W. M. Uiing. of "(ilencrieHV' 5 Uideford. Wairarnpa, and David Laing, .New Plymouth. The late Mr. ljai:ig had practically sixty years of colonial life in Australia and New Zealand. The death is announced by Press Association mrssage from Chrisk-hurch of Mr. John Baldwin, who from 1882 up till a few years a'go occupied the position of headmaster of the Sydenham Stale school. The deceased, who was h;«rn at lbi-ingstoke in 1840, arrived in New Zealand in 187-1. having been engaged by Lord Lytteltun for educational service in Canterbury. Mr. Baldwin was for eight and a-half years master at Brookside, and then took up Ihe ]>ost at Sydenham, which lie filled with distinction, for so long. The deceased probably laid the foundations of the State school cadet system, as it was his wont every year to take »• large contingent of schoolboys over to Governor's Bay for an encampment oil military lines. Miss Lucy Powdrell, who won the Ladies' Singles and Championship Doubles events at the Nelson tournament, was entertained by the Tnenitors of the Fatea Club the other day and presented , with a travelling rug as a mark of appreciation of the distinction she laid conferred on the club / Mr. Douglas Scott, of Kangitikei, was married to Miss May Hamilton, daugli-. ter of Mr. ft. B. Hamilton, of Manutalii, last week.