PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 264, 14 December 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A well-known settler in the person of Mr. John llarribali, of tne Eguiont roatl, died in Die Hospital oil Sunday. Mr. Ralph 11. Skipwitb, of the Stratford Post, has left for Wellington to take up tin 1 position of special sporting writer on llic Wellington Post. It is stated (says the Dominion) on what seems to" be good authority, that the manager of the Moumaliaki Experimental Farm, Mr. Gillanders, has resigned, the reason 'being given that be is quite opposed to the wholesale retrenchment which Tias recently .besn made 011 his stall', considering that successful work under the changed circumstances is (juite impossible. l'alnierslau will probably lose the mini,(.rations of tile Key. Isaac Jolly, Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly. The Itev. Mr. Jolly, Who for the' past eight and a half years has occupied the pastorate of St. Andrew's, has re-* ceived a call from St. Stephen's, Pousonby, Auckland, and at the invitation of the Northern congregation will preach in their church on 10th December. Mr. Jolly has been assured that the call is a unanimous one, and that no other name has been considered. During his residence in Palmerston lie has rendered great services to education—both primary and secondary—and his departure will be regretted by the citizens. Ludwlg llond, the eminent chemist, is dead. Deceased was born at Cassel, Germany, in 1831), and educated at the Polytechnic School, Cassel, and the Universities of Marburg and lleidleberg. 1 He went to England in-1802 and was engaged in the Lcblanc Sodd industry into which he introduced his process of recovering sulphur from alkali waste. In 1873 lie entered into partnership with .1. T. Brniiuer, at Wilmington, Norihwich, Cheshire, and established the manufacture of ammonia soda by the Snlvny proper, which lie has greatly perfected. These works are now ilc largest of their kind in llic world. Deceased also made and patented maiiy ' inventions of (jrent scientific and com niereial importance.