PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 256, 4 December 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

.Mr. I'. l'\ llalfe has been re-elee';ed chairman of the Stratford Hospital llonrd. Nurses Kirk and Trask have resigned from the stall of the Mew Plymouth hospital. Mr. Krai Bellringer lias' been re-elected chairman of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Rev. Arthur Fowler, formerly of Tc llenui and now of Rcmucra, Auckland, is' ill New Plymouth, and will preach at St. .Mary's Church sixty-sixth Miniversary serviced to-morrow.

I liwi'ting of the professional board I of the Ota«jo University yesterday, it » wan .decided to nominate ileury Huvelock , Cornish, of Kaitaugata, as Otago . candidate for the Khodes scholarship, : llie Haivera Star records the death ot 1 t Mrs. Betts, wife of Air. licnry Betts,! 5 of Okaiawa. Mrs. Betts, who was 78 j ! years of age, was a resident ot niaixy' • }' ears3 > aiili very highly rejected i i throughout the district. 1 Mr. G Bain until latefy teller in tie j , Hawerabranch of the Bank of New Zrai- 1 L land, loft for Balclutha yesterday. Mr. . Edward* from Motueka, is to join the . Hawera branch stall', and Mr. Chalmeis 16 to succeed Mr. Bain as teller. -Air. E. fuller, custodian lor a couple of .years for the Fitzroy Bowlin- Club and formerly engaged on the New Plymouth Tennis Club lawns, has been a'pponitod head greenkeeper at the Auckland Golf Club's links at Otalmhu, One of the wealthiest men in Australasia died last week at ilobart—Mr. H. A. Ji. (li'llilirand. Me left estates in I asmniiiiv valued nt close upon ,C 130,000. In addition, the deceased | Wt |iro)lel . t in -\c»' South Wales valued at AMOtt.OUI). Mr. Thomas .lohn McNeill, formerly "'I 0 l '"' bi'st-known business men in Wellington, died suddenly in Auckland on Monday, at. the warehouse of Messrs. •lohn Burns and Co., of whose staff he had been a member for s'ome years past. Mr. W. Dempster, who lias been appointed to the New Plymouth dairy produce grading staff,.' Una taken up his du- . ties. Mr. 1,. Hansen, who was to have J gone to Uisborne, is now uncertain of i | Ins movement*, owing to some depart-1 mental hitch.

•Mr. H. Kulliwell, of Uawera, while ■ycling along Glover Koad early on Vcdncsday evening, met w ith an' aecilent. He was riding a short distance iphind a trap, the driver of which pulled p suddenly, with the result that the yclist came into collision with the e.uclc. ilr. Halliwcll received a nastv nt above tlie right eye. * , Miss Clarice liuokman, formerly ot ' ew Plymouth and now touring with ollard's Opera Company, is making i ipid headway in her profession. Speak- ' <S "/ I' l ''' ability, a contemporary has ( ic following:—"The most marked ill- I ante of individual development is that i Miss (laiicc liiuknian, who played ic hero's part of Valentine.' We have distinct recollection that when the [ impnny was last hove tin's young lady I 'monstrated in u very minor part that j ic was likely to bo one of the be.t ngers in the company. Last night she ore tluui sustained these hopes, but so showed tuat she hag no small meairc of dramatic ability as well. She ade a gaino little hero, and proved > be an admirable love-maker, carrying jrself with das'h and dignity in all her I'incipal scenes. ller best musical nuiujr—which wa.s really charming—was )arling, Good-night/" A vei"}' old identity of the Const, Mr. atrick O'Dea, better known as "Bob |ee," passed away in the Westland hosital lust w<?ek at. the age of sixty-eight bum. Ho arrived on the Coast early in and followed! tile various gold a&'hea up and down the Coast, with 'i lir amount of success (savs the Hokiika Guardian), 'The rush to tlie Hanst, 1 boutli "was the last one he artieipatcd in, staying in that locality jr a number of yearn. He aiso took p a cattle run in the same neighbor-1 ood, often sending" cattle to the local, larkct. At the time of the Klondyke usli lie sold liis interests in Sfcuth, Westland, and, being joined by Hugh l'cFetrich, tlie two set off , to try their artuiies in that frozen region. After ome months' hardship he decided to pme back to New Zealand (M. iMcFetich having succumbed to the priva-1 ions), and landed in Auckland very luch broken in health. 1