PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 213, 14 October 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. C. Isaac, Inspector of Technical Schools, was ia New Plymouth yesterday. | Miss Dorothy Evans has resigned her position as pupil teacher at the Central School. -Mr. C. J. Ueakes, Cliief Government Veterinarian, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. W. C. Dudley, chairman of the Egmont County Council, will represeit that body nt the conference of the Counties Association, should one be held this vein-.

Mr. T. J. Reakes, Government Inspector and manager at the New Plymouth municipal abattoirs, was the recipient last night of a presentation at the hands of the Master Butchers' Association, upon the occasion of his approaching marriage. The presentation, which was made by Mr. 0. W. Sole, took the form of a handsomely-chased silver teapot, appropriately inscribed, and a Stet of silvermounted carvers.

The Southland Times reports ilic death of Mr. John Guy, stationmaster at the BlulT, on Friday last. Mr. Guy had been laid aside for several montns with complications arising out of hea»'» weakness, but his death came somewhat unexpectedly. Mr. Guy was a very popular officer in the Southland district, having been stationmaster at Orepuki, Otaatau, Pukcrau. Kingston, and Kdendale. as well as Inglewood, Onehungn, ant New Plymouth in the Xorlh Island. lie ! was 55 years of age. The death occurred at Pukehou, Hawke's Bay. on Monday, at the age of ninety-one years, of Mr. Edward Mars'n Williams, eldest son of the late Arch deacon Henry Williams, of Waiinate, A Press Association message states that the deceased was one of those who witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and lie was employed to obtain signatures of Maoris to it. He was for many years Resident Magistrate at the Bay of Islands, and afterwards a Judge of the Native Land Court. On retirement lie resided at Auckland, but eventu. ally settled in Hawke's Bay. From the Hawera Star we learn of the death of Mr. C. R. Bayley. J.P., oi Hawera, which took place at Rotorua on Tuesday morning. Mr. Bayley, who was about 55 years of age, had been ailing for a couple of months, having been stricken with paralysis. As a native interpreter Mr. Bayley (who was the son of the Rev. S. Bayley) was one of the most familiar figures on the coast. He came to Taranaki as a boy, and lived in this immediate district for the past thirty years. A wife and a son of nineteen years are left to mourn their loss. The funeral will take place at New Plymouth.

At Wellington on Monday evening Professor La by told an anecdote which well illustrates the esteem in wiiich Professor Rutherford, the great New Zealand scientist, is held at Home. Two ot' Canada's greatest physicists had been sent over to Cambridge to engage a prolessor of physics for McGill University, Montreal, and, of couree, tlicy went to I'rol'es-or .1. Thomson for advice. The great scientist mentioned two men who he thought '.vere eminently suited for a colonial professorship. Professor Cox, one of the deputation, said, "But haven't you another vowi" man here, a brillia it student—a Sew /ealander, I think?" "Oh, Rutherford," was the reply, far too good for 'McGill." And yet McGill University is one of the greatest science universities in the world.