PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 55, 30 March 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

.Mr. Joseph Thomas, of Okato, has ben appoint.-.1 liist assistant ai the Stratford .school. Air. W. T. .Morpeth, district surveyor at Napier, has been appointed to take charge of the roads branch of the Lands Department in Auckland, Air. Charles Allison, the present Jlayor of Chrislchurcli, ial'ormeu a deputation yesterday he would bo a candidate tor the aproachiug elections for the Alavorl ally.- I'i'O-s wire.

j;r. FLidlay, speaking to a Duncdin reporter recently, said that as Messrs \\ ray, Kenny, and Huberts leave the. sen ice on the 3-lsl the Cabinet nuist tlii- week appoint three additional Stipendiary -Magistrates.

The liev. .\l. .J. Ililder is to be faro- | welled by the South Load Methodist Church congregation on Fri.lav evening. 'lno llev. I\ t;. Hrooke wil'l lie farowelled by tlie Whitclcy .Memorial M.-tliodi-t, congregation aiid circuit on Wednesday week. Mr. Austin Uewley, who has just been admitted as a -uliciLur, is about, to commence his profession m Js'ew Plymouth, after having had lliree years' experience at. Masterton in the extensive practice of .Mr. W. (!. Heard, and having prcviotisly had four years with .Mr. J. li. Koy of this town. Mr S. X. Zinian, the hist Ilhodes scholar from New Zealand, has won an honorary scholarship iu mathematics. Ileiug a lthodes scholar, lie was not entitled' to a cash scholarship. Mr Zinian has taken on rowing and is pulling for ids college, Jialliol. Jialliol has two teams, and ilr Ziman is a nienilier of the B crew. He is also treasurer of the College Club.

Ilr. E. P. Jluuntfort, who for the past -even years has been manager uf the Stratford branch of the Bank of -New South Wale-, ha- received advice of his removal to Ceraldine to lie inanifjer <:< the Hank'- branch in that verv charming South l-laud town. While congratulating Mr. Mount fort on his decided ndvanconionl in llie Hank's service, his many friends will regret to 'earn of his coming removal, for since hi- arrival iu Stratford, says the I'osl. Mr. Monntlurl has taken siich a leading pari in musical and social matters that it will be dillieillt to fill his place. The recent death ot .loseph Cordoza. of Wellington, recall- the sen-atioual Mauntiiitapu murders uf sixtv odd yearago. 'Mr. Cordoza is said to have been the la-f man tu pans along Ihe road in the Nelson district before the murders were cummitted by the notorious llnr-■gess-Lcvy-Siillivan 'gang, and so (dgniticant did' his escape from a short and sharp death seem to the police oll'icials that he was arrested on suspicion of being connected wilii the highwaymen, and was submitted to a private examination before he was released. The murderers were subsequently captured, and still'ered the extreme penalty uf the law.—'Dominion.

The London Dailv Mail is enthusiastic over the lion. W.'lVmbor Reeves, who has now fiillv entered on his now work, t'nder the heading " A (Ileal Colonial,' it says :—" In a crowded lecture-room at till! London School of Kconomics a

i man who Ims already played a proniincnt part in the Urania of Umpire, «»<l ■who may play a. larger one still. was enteiiiij; upoii a. fresh slugc uf his remarkable 'career. Twenty years iijjo every one in New Zealand knew the name and lame of •Willie' lieoves. one of 'Dick Scddon's ablest and most active lieutenants. Intended for the law. he had leff| it. for journalism, had edited a daily newspaper with conspicuous talent, ami ■had at an early a«o lieeniue a Cabinet Minister, entrusted with tin >st important democratic reforms. The chief measure which he carried was that which established compulsory arbitration board-. London first knew him a- a

resident in ISilli. when he came to lake up his duties as Agent-Ccneral for N'ew Zealand. Kver since then the name ol I'eiuber liceves has been familiar ill diplomatic society, among literary people 1 for ho is In-way of hoi i.e. a poet a- well as ii politician), and to newspaper readers through his fivipieiil. loiters to Ihe Times. In the autumn of last year |„. ( .a1,|,.,l to his tiovcrninent resigning his post, and it (hen became known that he was to be the new director of th" London School of Economics. 1| was shrewdly ~iic-scd that till* was 11 prelude to his enteriii'.' Ihe political arena in Km-" land.