PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 258, 7 December 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The 'death occurred at Wangunui on Wednesday of Mrs. Brjce, wife of the Hon. John lJryce, in her seventy-fourth year.

A London cable slates that Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zcahnl, who recently underwent a serious operition, is now able to take short drives. Sir. Archibald Clark returned to Auckland by the Earawa last night. I The election of one member for the northern district 011 the Wanganm | Education Hoard, vice Mr. W. C. Cargill

(resigned), resulted iii the return of Mr. ll'. O'Dea, M.A. The voting was:—!'. D'Dea (llawera) liliU, J. U. Muirnj (liltham) 88, It. Neilson (Sedgcbrook)

Mr. A. W. Webster, manager of he [awcra branch of the Bunk of N'ew outli Wales, in company with Mrs. Vebster, purposes early next year to pny ' visit to the Old Country (sa,\» caie tar). Mr. Webster has been granted welve month*' leave of absence, anil "X- . iccts to leave _ Sydney '>y the Orient | iner Oivona, .sailing on March HO. 1 The Kev. A. M. Dalrymple, M.A., niiu | ster of I'ueriia and I'ort .Molynenx, has ntimated that he intends to retire about he end of March next, after a ministry jf twenty-three years there, making forty-three years of service to the L'hurcli, nineteen being in the Old Country. The Kust Clutha church occupies a unique position, in that during the nearly fifty-five years of its existence it has had but too ministers, the late R«v. Br. Bannermuii and Mr. Dalrymple. Describing a day in the House of Commons, the London correspondent of the tSydnev Telegraph remarks abjut the Chancellor, of the Exchequer:—Mr. Uoyd-Oeorge speaks' again and again, lie is all courtesy, urbanity, good-'el-lowship. One might think that he lov.*d the Dukes a« brothers. Hut one can't miss his force. His explanations of subtle and intricate land taxation problems and proposals are as sunshine. He is quiet, persuasive and convincing. His tact would do credit to Mr. Asquith, and flis manner to Mr. Ilalfour, or even to a Dulie. We think of him at Limehouse and -at Xcwciistlo, and wonder at the wide range of this '"little Welsh attorney." To-day, after months of almost unprecedented Parliamentary ifforts, he is looking keen and At.