PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 190, 23 September 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Captain T. Baker, secretary to 'he Napier Hospital and Charitable Aid Hoard, died on .Tuesday, aged 74 yeare. Dr. R. V. Hosking, of Mastertoa, leaves for Tahiti, wlicre he purposes to take un liifi residence, on the 28th of next month. llr. Arthur Morton lias been appointed to represent the Education Board on the Hoard of School Commissioners, ill succession to Dr. Henry I'aull, deceased. A Wellington wire states that the wife of Mr. Peter Ueyes, Commissioner of Taxes, died somewhat unexpectedly hst jiitfht. She will lie buried privately at Auckland.

Mr. L. >S. Donaldson, Stipendiary Magistrate, will, it \t> understood, shorty retire from the New South Wales public service, after thirty-nine years of activity in the Justice Department. An intcristing arrival by the lluapehu , on Tuesday was Dr. H. Sehwarz (Zum I Busch), laic of Berlin, who has come 1 out to New Zealand as a pioneer on behalf of the Society of Life Reformers. Mr. Arthur K. Dyne, formerly of the New Plymouth railway stall', has been promoted' to the rank of stationmaster itt Levin. Mr. Dyne leaves Pulwerstoii North l.n take up his duties on Saturday next. The lion. Fowlds arrived in Wanganui yesterday and received deputations. Laul evening he spoke at Easlbrook i.i support of Mr. Smith* candidature and in reply to Mr. Masscy and Mr. (Ico.y, Hutchison. —Press wire. A London cable states that Lailv Dorothy Onslow was married to Mr. Edward Wood, son of Lord Halifax, at West Clandon on Wednesday. Reference i* made to Ihe parties in the

"Woman's World" notes on the first page. of this issue. I A cable received from Brisbane last night states thnt Dr. Breme, Into demonstrator pathologist of anatomy at the Prague 'University, ha* been ap- I pointed rtrst director of the Australian I Institute of Tropical Medicine to he established in Townsvillo. Mr. J. 0. Herdman. manager of Dalgetv'fi wool and product department, Wellington, has heon appointed manager of the firm's Napier branch, in succession to Mr. J. K. Goudy, who is re tiring owing to ill-health. Mr. W. S. Bennett, of the Townavillc (Queensland) branch, succeeds Mr. llerdman at Wellington.

Major CJ. M. lluttan, D.5.0., R.E. (so n of Captain ITutton, F.R.S. (Christchurch), who grained a commission the Royal Engineers 25 years ago on. the nomination of the New Zealand Go. wrnment, arrived from London on Monday by the Ruapchu. During Via , tern in the Army, Major Hutton- haa | served in India, Burma, South Africa, Bermuda-, and Jamaica. The officers of the. second battalion of the Wellington Rifle Volunteers last night entertained at Wanganui Colonel Watt, late commander, and presented him with a purse of sovereigns. Mrs. Watt was the recipient of a silver tea service. The presentations were the result of subscriptions from the whole of the corps in the battalion, including the Garrison Band, and ex-vohmteer officers.—Prefix wiTe.