PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 46, 19 March 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

air. C. ,1 Hcak.es Is gazetted Chief Government -Veterinarian a.s from January Ist last, The Governors recognition 0 f Hwao« iiinghang as CMnese Consul for Kew Zealand is gazetted. Mr ißitUiie, Inspector of Schools, for 11 n-i mm Education, Ously ill * IU ' SS IVU ' C >> i 3 »r Carbcrrv, of Stratford, while taking a plunge i„ the sea baths at Xew I l.vmoulh oil Tuesday, had the misfortune to severely strain a muscle of one of lus legs. ' | l is ' st ' lteil that jJlrs, llannau. tho only 'woman survivor of the i'enguior disaster(been offered by the Union, Mi .unship Company a position as a, stewardess. 111'. Hamilton Hodges, the well-known handue of Auckland, has deliuitclv decided to leave Xew Zealand and* proceed to hiigland, where lie has scleral engagements to till. At a meeting of the Hawke's Bav I rcsbytery yesterday it was reported that the I\ev. George P. Kj, % mll |,, r eail to Waipawa, had requested his eongreg.ition to stop the pro as he Jiad elected to accept a call to the clinr«re oi lleaaant Point, Caiiterbuj-\'.-.-I>ress \vjre.

A purse containing over one Immlroi ovcrtigiw WHS jmisentPd to |{. Arnst lianijiiciii sculler, at CliriHtchnrcli hisl igViU It >vas s(at t ,| tfi;,(. C.iUO lia.l era guaranteed i„ W nd Arnst (o Can da lu meet Durnau, and 12(10 for lii~ in connection witJi a match itli Marry.-- Press wire, line of the oldest residents of H';ui"aHr T. Moon.idict .suddenly om ilon;,v "'"ruing. Deceased had l/ceu ailin-.' »r some time, but the end was not oxer led. Jto ciinic out to Sow /calami i the schooner Ariel in ]S.w, and imR'didtuly look up hi* residence in Wagaiuij, whore he rcnuiincd till the time f his decease. During the troublous lines he played liis [.art in the militia, aws Hie Chronicle. Dr. Withers, house surgeon at the Waigailui Hospital, succumbed yesterday Horning to an attack .of typhoid few aid to have boon contracted when de eased was treating Maori patients silt' cring from the same disease. Decease) iias 24 years of ago, and had only lieei n charge about two months, havinj iiuveeded Dr. Fergus, who resigned. Tin

body is to be conveyed to his old homo. Southbrulge, Canterbury. The death occurred at West port on Sunday of C'aptiiin James Matthews, who lias been employed hv the Westport Harbor Board for the last sixteen years, and was well known as the master of the; dredge Kubi Si'ddon. Heart disease was the cause of death. Tim deeeased Mas a very valued ollicer of the hoard, and handled his vessels in a niasterlv I manner. He was only 4!l years of age. and leaves a widow and oiio son.

Promotion lias come rapidlv to Mr. Joseph ITuuter, M.A.. at present first assistant .jt the Stratford District Tligli School, who lias just been appointed rector of the (lore lligli School, Mr. Hunter, who is not yet thirty years old, is a son, of Air. J. Hunter, manager of the Dunedin and Kaikorai Tram (.'ompanv, I and spent most of his school days at the Kaikorai School. Obtaining a scholarship, he spent a year at the Otago Boys' High Schaol. lie returned to Kaikorai School as a pupil teacher, and after completing his University course and a year in the Training College he was appointed headmaster of llald Mill flat School. Returning to Dunedin. lie was fourth assistant at Arthur Street School, returning there as I 1 second assistant after being assistant | { master at Waitaki High School. Xcxtji he went to Stratford. Now, as before (

stated, he goes back ,to the South Island to take up a responsible position at Gore.