PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 120, 18 June 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

r Hew Lewis returned to Xe-w Plymonth last night. Mr. XoWis', President of the Xorfolk Island Executive Council, i« dead. Mr. 11. Okey, returned from Wellington :by last night's 1 express. Mr. G. Spencer Clapham waft a passenger to New Plymouth hut night by the express train. Mr. W, f.\ King, manager of the North Tnraihiki Dairy Company (Ouaero) for the past six years, has' been appointed manager of the Tamaki Dairy Company, in the Dninievirke district. Mr. W, T. Wells, of Mnnnia, a member of thi» New Plymouth Harbor Board, is leaving: this week on a trip to the Old Country. Oh Tuesday he was entertained by his friends and presented with a travelling bag. It is understood that Major <T. G. Hughes, D.5.0., recently appointed district adjutant at Nelson, lias been offered au appointment in England. A private cubic message from Sydney ani nnnees the fact lhai. he has sailed from thai [Mill for Loudon. , Mr. Cliavannes. jun., Wnnganui, and i j Mr. J. \V. Hirst, formerly of llawera, went Sydney way .last week by the Warrinioi». They are en route to Queensland lo make enquiries into the pastoral and agricultural prospects in I the Xortliem State.

Perey i)aiiniall, states a London cable, is the last senior wrangler at Trinity College, Cambridge, owing to the organI isation scheme decided upon some time jag under which new methods of examination have been adopted. St. I John's arid Trinity Colleges previously had 52 wranglers each. Mr. Edward Armitage, Taylor-Car-ringtoti 3 s well-known "avant courier." arrived in New Plymouth last uight in order to make the necessary arrangements for the eompany'h' appearand' here on Friday night next. The entertainment is to be given as a be*ieliT, {<>- w*ards the Xe\v Plymouth T>eanlifying Association's scheinu. I

A cable message has boon received by a local resident (wr.it.e-s the Opotiki correspondent of the Auckland Herald) announcing the death of the Hon. V. 13. Sewell; on May 31, at Ipohi, in the Fedcrated .Miilay States, at.the age of ">7 year*. 'file late Mr. Sewell was bom in the Straits of ]lab-e-}la;ideb, on a voyage Home from India, lie was educated at Sandhurst, and was entered as a cadet in the Royal Engineers. Tie came out to the ' colonies hi if.M.S. nianch. and was invalided in New Zealand. Mr. Sewell subsequently joined the (inverniiicnl stall" and was for ft number of years engaged in survey york in Wetland, under Mr. .Mueller. Later on he came to the north, a?id settled in the Raglan district, where he carried on surveying and civil engineering, and ako acted as county engineer. From Raglan Mr. Seweli went to Opotilri, on account of his health, under the appointment to the Whakatane County Cotrm-il. as county engineer, and from 1807 he acted in a similar capacity for the Opotiki County Council, until his departure for the Malay State* a. few years ago. The late Mr. Sewell iwas also a Justice of the Peace, and he will be remembered by most of the residents of the Opotiki and Whakatane districts'.