PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 88, 10 May 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

JJr. Wake, of Eltham, has purchased , a practise at Pukekohe. I The Eltham County Council on Saturday carried a resolution expressing deep"sympathy with Mr. B. Dive in the death of his wife. Mr. E. C. E. Mills', managing director of the firm of E. W. Mills and Co., is leaving to-day (Monday) on a trip to America and England. Jlr. M. Bulger, of Manaia, is an inmate of Hip New Plymouth Hospital, snll'cring from a severe abdominal illness. A very old colonist, in the person of Mrs. P. Corrigan, passed away at the residence of her son, .Mr. T. Corrigan, Manaia, on Friday night, after a long illness'. The interment is to take place at Auckland.

The Stratford Post understands that Constable McLeod, of Horopito, is in the near future to be stationed at the iStratflord-Oiigarue railway works beyond Huiakama. tMr. J. V. Grant, of the local staff of the Telegraph Department, lias 1 been transferred to Wellington, and left on Saturday afternoon. Prior to his departure' he was presented by his fellowboarders and friends with a handsomely mounted pocket-book as a memento of the good times spent together, and a mark of esteem, i.Mr. J. A, Thomson, New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, who was appointed lec-

turer in biology ami demonstrator in biology at Victoria College, hail, before the appointment was oll'ered to him, accepted an oppointnicnt to the stall' of tin; Geological Survey in West Australia. It was, therefore, impossible for liim to lill the position, to which Mr. 0. A. Cotton, director of the Coromainlel | School of .Mines, lias since lieeii appoint-1 e,l. , .Mr Mnrnuuluke Webster, whose death was' iinuounci'il in Sydney recently, was a colonist of 56 years' standing, and one of the fa-l-thinning army of diggers who made golden history of the "fifties." Mis life was (says the Auckland Star) nn adventurous one. At various times lie held or was interested in many rich claims, and made and lost several fortunes. Eight years' were spent on the Xew Zealand fields, and while there m took a hand, wider Yon Tempsky, against the Jlaoris. Sir. Webster's last gold - mining venture was I In- disappointing .Mount Brown rush. This ended disastrous...-. He and a companion narrowly escaped death from thirst, being rescued in the last extremity. Accompanied hv his' son and daughter. Dr. lloilgkin, D.C.L., Litl. 1).. a distinguished historian and writer, is •'laying in Wellington for a short: period.' As members of the .Society „f friends their chief object in visiting the colonies i< to meet Australasian members of the body to give them moiiic iicw> and information fr the Homeland. As a:i ethnologist and archanelosris't of note. Dr. Ilodgkins is .much ii*erc»tcTl in colonial museums, and (-penally in the Maoris, of u'hcim he lias heard -uch a lot. The doctor's uncle. Dr. Thomas llodgkhi, was the founder of the Aborigines 'Protection Society. Owing („ a slight accident while in the South Island. Dr. Iludgkiii was not able to travel over much, but he saw Lake Wnkatipu, and thinks the s'cenerv thereabout very much like Switzerland. Prior to leaving New Zealand, the doctor visit: Auckland, and leaves thence for Allstrnlia. The retirement o 'f Hi s |mp Williams' llWwp of Wninpu, takes ell'ect on June Mill. It may be of interest to relate, remarks the Bay ~f Phut,,, Times, that IMshop Williams is in his eightieth year, and had the honor of being bap'ticod with the lirst Maori infant* received into the Church of Kiigbind in the Kay of Islands in 182(1. Me received his education at Oxford University, being ordained deacon by llishop Blo'oiuliclcC hi London, in the year 185 H. lie then left for >ew Zealand to labor amongst the natives in the Poverty. 11ay dis'lrict. and was ordained priest by Bishop Selwvn in 183(1. ill|. was made Archdeacon 'of Wniapu in 1800. but on the outbreak of (•he llauhan troubles in IR.iO his work in Poverty Tiny „•„, interrupted, although l„. continued to periodically visit that district until 1870. when he returned to (iisborne a,id resided there tall his elevation to the liishopric o'l U aiapu. rii January. lKll.i. he was consecrated Bishop. having lieen previously elected .by tlie Synod to till the v.acancV created by n„, r,»si«natif);i of Bishoii Slnart. wl lo left x,.«- Zealand to taue "' work in Persia. During Ihe whole of .his church life Bishop Williams has Wen ~i„s e ly associated with be native race, 1111( 1 the training college for unlive elemv at fiisborne has «ra K ;\ from the class,- originated hv him during' his term „s archdeacon. '