PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 75, 24 April 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Hi. G. Harding, of Inglewood, who has been chosen as people's warden in St. Andrew s Clmrch, lias held the position continuously for 21 years. A contemporay ««y s ilia. g]'p, Donnelly, of Hastings, is now much better after lier recent very severe illness, and lrom present appearances her lull iecovery will not be tag. Hiss fanny Brough, the well-known English actress, who, in private life, is known as Mrs. I{. «. Boluyn, has commissioned the Victorian sculptor Mr Bertram Macke-anal, R.A., to execute a bust of her late brother, Jlr. Robert Brough, the well-known Australian ac-tor-manager, for the Victorian National Art Gallery* Mr, Watkin Mills, the English baritone, who toured NeKv Zealand about iour years ago, is contemplating another tour of the colonies* Miss Jane Graham has resigned her position of assistant in the Awatuua school, and .wishes to be relieved as from Ist May. Miss Graham has for some time been thinking of entering the mission held, and a month ago applied for admissKni to the Salvation Army mission work. Iler application has been accepted, and Miss Graham is to be in Melbourne by 11th May. At Chatsworth House on laursdav evening Mr. Frank Orbell was presented by his fellow-boarders with a handsome salad-bowl on the occasion of his approaching marriage. ill". N. Greiner, \vlio has been away on a couple of weeks' vacation, returned to New Plymouth b v last night's express.

Mr. Murray Gibbs (a son of Dr. Gibbs, who practised in New Plymouth about 2o years ago), who has been spending a couple of days here, left by the Rarawa for the north last night. ' The funeral of the late Mr. W. J. Evans, at Inglewood yesterday, was ill' itself a marked tribute to the' great respect in which the deceased gentleman had been held, and the large number ot friends he had made in his twelve years' life in Taranaki. The funeral cortege was a lengthy procession, and it was composed of peopleMrom all parts ot Taranaki, including many members of tiie teaching profession, who mourned an excellent friend and counsellor. The deceased had been a prominent member ot the fraternity, and was accorded a Masonic funeral. The procession was beaded by the Inglewood Itrass Band, playing a funeral dirge. Then followed tile brethren of the mystic craft from the Inglewood and Stratford Lodges, immediately preceding the hearse. • Following it wer:> the chief mourners, the Inglewood school cadets, members of the Inglewood school committee, representatives of the Taranaki Education Board, Inglewood Howling Chili, and other athletic associations, fellow-teachers, and a large gathering of the general public. Floral tributes were received from many of the organisations with which the late Mr. Evans had been associated, and from many friends both local and at a distance. The Rev. Thomas, vicar of Inglewood. conducted the burial ceremony, reading the Masonic funeral rites and tile Anglican burial service in most impressive style, l'he Hag 011 tin- Inglewood school llag-stalt hung at half-mast while the last tribute to the late headmaster of the school was being tendered.