PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 74, 23 April 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A Press wive from Dunedin announce that Captain C. S. Hodge. a wcl'-knowi. master mariner, residing at Por Chalmers, died yesterday, aged 77. He can. to New Zealand in 180-1, and reined from tin- sea ill 18H2. ~ , King Edward and (juceii Alexandra have arrived at Malta, says a cable from London. . I), lu.ck (Tc Kangihiroa) SI.P.. who |, il6 severed his connection with the IK „'..t of Public Health was at Auckland, on Monday, presented with a m ; mento, accompanied *ilh an addu.s signed by the local stall. Mr%lfred llill, the well-known mils.cal composer, who has been so seriously IthT on Sunday h,«t his life was deaml of, on Wednesday showed ...aikZ movement. There are n-v good hopes that he will noon he restored to U t! h 'lla.nilton Hodges, the well-known haritonc Bingeis left for Inland h.v the Corinthie yesterday. He is ««»« t0 i London to pursue his musical sml . , The date of hi. return to NewA*l«, is quite uncertain. Mrs. Hodges wII 1 not accompany him, hut will return to j her home in Auckland. A wedding was solemnised by the Key. F G Evans, vicar of St. Mary s. in St. Mary's Church on Wednesday, when Mr. John E. Barker, of Hunterville, son ot Mr Barker, of Xakotuku, was married to Miss Eva Simmons, eldest daughter of Mr. C. E. Simmons, of Xew Plymouth. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Hilda Simmons, and by Miss M. Barker, sister of the bridegroom, as bridesmaids. Mr. D. Barker, brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man, and Mr. Harold .Simmons as groomsman. The bride was given away by her father Mr. Edwiu (Well, the well-known actor-manager, was married in Sydney yesterday (says a '.Press cable) to Miss Lily Willis, of Wellington. A London cable announces the demise of the Earl of Sheffield, at the age of 77. He was unmarried, and is succeeded by Baron Stanley of Alderley. The death is announced of Sir John Watt Keid, K. 0.8., U.X., at the. age. of eightv-six. The son of Dr. John Watt lleid.'ll.X., lie entered the Xavy in 184.). In 1880 he was appointed Director-Gen-eral of the Medical Department of the Xavv, which post he held until 1888, when tie retired. He served in the llussian War in the Black Sea. 18.14-33; m the China War, 1857-01); ami in the Ashanti Campaign, 1874. For bis services in the last-mentioned campaign he was promoted and received thv medal. He was made a K. 0.8. in. November, 1882. He 'was educated in Edinburgh. The lirst winner of a llhodes scholarship from Canada of alien birth is a twenty-year-old Icelandic student of Wesley' College, Winnipeg, with the typical Icelandic name of Skiili Johnson, lie was selected last month from twelve applicants. Skuli Johnson was born in the little storm-swept northern island of Iceland on (ith September, 1888. When le was only a year old his parents emigrated to western Canada, settling first n Winnipeg and then moving to Saskatchewan. When ten years old he lost both parents and removed to Winnipeg again to live with an uncle. He received all .his education at Winnipeg schools. In 1908 he entered Wesley College, and lias carried of! scholarship after scholarship. He is a good athlete and a member of Wesley College football, basketball, and hockey teams. He has also taken a prominent interest in literary circles, and this year is President of the Wesley College 'Literary Society. The young Icelander from western Canada, it is felt, will make good In staid old Oxford, The resignation of the Very Rev. Father A. Keogb, rector of St. Patrick's College, has been Anally accepted, but will not take effect till the end of June, states a Press telegram. The duties ot rector will then be taken over by the Verv He v. Dr. Kennedy, D.D., H.A., 8.C.L., F.L.M.S., of Meaiice, who is to lx! replaced by the Very Rev. Dean Smith, of Hastings. The Very Rev. Father Keogh will then take over the duties of parish priest at Hastings. The death is announced of Mr William James Evans, headmaster of the Inglewood school, and formerly headmaster of the Xgaive school ami the Dudley school, The Inglewood llecord writes: "It has been known for some short time that the condition of the late Mr. Evans was musing his family and friends considerable anxiety; but no one—at any rate outside the immediate family circle —imagined that he was On the brink of the grave, and the news of his demise came as a crushing surprise to everyone. Mr. Evans 'was one of the fow men of these times whose life, public and private, was an example for everyone—a devoted husband, the kindest father, and clean living man, loved by all relatives, honored by all friends, respected by all people—a fact clearly proved by' the implicit confidence, amounting to adoration, placed in him by every scholar, from the little toddler to the dux in the various schools over which he has ruled. .... He always identified himself with all local matters tending to advance the happiness of all around him, and was invariably found leading in all amusements for the lietterment of the young people of the district, and also ia support of general social advancement and entertainment. He was, on his first residence here, a member of the local brass band, holding for the some time the onerous, and then honorary, position of bandmaster. He was an ardent sport, being an angler of considerable ability, and an equally successful man with the gun, yet never allowing these to vncroach for a single instant on the time demanded by a strict and faithful discharge of his duty.'' Mr. Evans was a most successful teacher, and was deservedly respected amongst the members of his profession. By his death the Taranaki Education Board loses probably thv most promising teacher in its service and the Inglewood children a good' master and friend. He was enthusiastic in school cadet matters, and has for some time been .Major of Xo. 2 Battalion. At the rosiest of Mrs. Evans !l( , will be accorded a Masonic funeral, the interment taking place this afternoon Mr. J. .1. MeLeod. of the Stratford I moil Bank's staff, left this week for Home. Mr. Oswald De W. Vaughan succeeds Mr. MeLeod. ■ The Marquis de Xoailles-, who died recently at the age of seventy-nine, was n diplomatist who entered diplomacy late m life. Until he was forty ho was a historian, but then, in 1870,'Thiers made him French Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington. Eighteen months later, he became Ambassador at Rome, and in 1882 he went in the same capacity to Constantinople, retiring from the service in 18S0. For ten years he remained in private life; hut M. Hanotaux, wh.o | had been his Councillor of Embassy at | Constantinople, persuaded him to resume active service as Ambassador at Berlin —a position which ||e retained, until 1002. Sir Mathew Vatlpin, the Governor of Natal, is one of four brothers who have made their mark in the world. His eldest brother, Sir Nathaniel Nathan, was at one time Attonie.v-fleneral In Trinidad : another brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Xallian, is the well-known! authority on explosives, and superintendent of the Royal Gunpowder at Waltham Abbey ; and a third brother, Mr Hubert Nathan, CLE., is a memncr of Ihe Bengal Civil Service, and hat been private secretary to the Viceroy of India. Sir Mathew has seen mucli service under the (ioverninent, and among other offices has held those of Administrator of Sierra Leone, Governor of the Gold Coast, and Governor of Hongkong, lb' is the first .Tew who has ever been a colonial Governor.