PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 324, 16 January 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL

I Mr. R. Arnst, the 'champion sculler, ■arrived in New Plymouth yesterday. He proposes spending a few days here and ithcn proceeding north per motor car. At Manaia on Wednesady a presentation wins made to Mr. 6. H. Poole, of ithe Bank of New Zealand, who is being transferred to Carterton. ' iMir. T. Bransgrove, of Devon-street, left for Dunedin yesterday morning to attend the funeral of his brother, who died some weeks ago in South Africa. The Rev. W. U. Baker, vicar of BrightWater, Nelson, has been appointed Archdeacon of Waiiuea in succession to the late Archdeacon Wright.—Press wire. 1 A Duniedin telegram states that Dr. Chappie, cx-M,P. for Tuapeka, and Mrs. Chappie were entertained at a "social" at Beaumont on Tuesday, when the 'former wins presented with ail illuminated address. They were entertained at 'Alexandra on Friday night, when Dr. Chappie was presented with an address Und Mrs. Chappie with a. gold brooch. I Lieutenant Knox will be in New Ply'mouth till Monday morning, when he leaves for Wanganui and Mastei'ton. 'He .will address a meeting in Wellington on the 20th instant, when His Excellency the Governor will be present, and leaves for England by the Taiuui on the 28th instant. i' The Prime Minister visited Fairlie 'yesterday, and, according to a telegram from Tiniaru, was courteously received 'on this, his first visit. Ho was welcomed by the County Council and resiVlents from near and far in the afternoon, and returned to Tinnuu in the 'evening, and went north by the second (express. Mr. William Kerr, of_Ne\v Plymouth, ■who has been appointed Stipendiary l.Uagvtrate at Wanganui, was horn in 'Edinburgh, and served his articles in ' binini'ii with the legal firm of Messrs. iTulius and Balmeir, and was admitted 'is'a barrister and solicitor in 1883. He has acted continuously for the last years as Crown Prosecutor at New Plymouth for the Northern Judifciai District. He is president of the Taranaki District Lav Society, an

'active member of the Chamber of Coai'.iicvce, vice-president of the New Ply'iiiouth Club, a member of the Council '.if the Polynesian Society, and, till his 'magisterial appointment, patron of the 'Xetti Plymouth Caledonian Society, 'which has elected him to a life-member-hhip. Mr. Kerr is a nephew of the late (Mr. James Smith, the Edinburgh poet land Scottish story-writer, to whose (memory the hitter's friends and adimirers erected in the Grange Cemetery 'Edinburgh, a beautifully-designed mon.i'ineut with ti. bas-relief bust of the poet. The poems and snugs, .which have gone through a third edition, were dedicated to the Right Honorable Archibald Philip (Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, and some •of the. .songs, set to music by Dr. John Gray and the musical composer of the 'well-known song "The Good Rhei:i Wine." Oi) Thursday afternoon the members of the Taranaki Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union met in the Commercial Hotel, Hawera, to tender a comIpli'mentary dinner and make a presentation to Mr. A. Naughton, their late iscractury, on the occasion of his retiring from that position prior to his departure for the Old Country. Mr. Maxwell presided. The presentation took the Iform of a handsome tray, beautifully linlaid with a variety of native timbers an diagonal patterns, ami bearing a sfl-h-pr label inscribed: ''Presented to Mr. land .Mrs. Naughton by the past and present members of the Taranaki Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, 'on the eve. of their departure from New ■Zeaitand.''—Star.