PERSONAL.
The Tavaimki Ri|l es last night unanimously elected Sergeant Adrian Marrett junior lieutenant of the company, Mr. A. Clough, of Ominakc, who with his wife has been on • tour of the Old Country, returned on Saturday. Mr. C. R. Stead, of Waitara, and late of New Plymouth, has passed the final section of the solicitors' examination. An old resident of .Manaia in the person of Mrs. 1-1. Sinclair died on Saturday. She leaves a family of three, one daughter and two sous, all grown up. The local paper announces tli.it llr J. K. Law, schoolmaster at Manaia for tile past twenty years, will in all pribabihty shortly take up the position of headmaster ot the Arnmnho school. His Worship the Mayor has taken steps, through the Town Clerk, to secure recognition by the Royal Humane Society of the brnvery and skill displayed by Mr. A. llardgrave in rescuing the man Kishy from the sea on Sunday. On Friday Mr. Yvilkins, acting headmaster of the Waitara State School, was the recipient of a presentation at the hands' of the senior boys. A; the Public Works office, Stratford, on Saturday, a presentation was made by his comrades in the local office to Mr. F. S. Dyson, assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, on the occasion of his approaching ma'rria"e.— Post. On Saturday afternoon, at the Lands and Survey Office, Mr. G. F. Robinson, late district road engineer in the Wellington district, was presented with an address and tea service by the engineers of the local bodies with whom he had been brought in contact. Mr. G. T. Murray, local resident engineer, made the presentation. Messrs. S. Percy-Smith, late Surveyor-General; Francis Simpson! chief surveyor; and W. 11. Skinner, chief draughtsman, were present, and testified to the worth.of the recipient. The funeral of the late Mr. Joe Ward yesterday afternoon, despite 1 the exceedingly short notice, was a very representative one. The family coaches and chief mourners were followed by cabs containing representatives of the Harbor Board, Borough Council, New Plymouth Savings Bank directorate, and the Taranaki Volunteer Battalion and Oddfellows Lodge, whilst the procession was headed by members of the Masonic fraternity. The Rev. James Guy officiated at the graveside, and Bro. L. Hammond read the Masonic burial rites. Mr. T. O'Sullivan, a member of the mechanical staff of, our local contemporary for seven years past, and foreman for the greater part of that time, has severed his connection with the paper and leaves for Sydney almost immediately. He was presented by the fellowship on Saturday with a case of pipes. Last evening a 'number uf friends gathered at the Red House Hotel to bid him good-bye, and presented him with a fine silver RoUicrlmm lever watch. Subsequently, at the bandroom, he was presented by the members of the Garrison ißand with a valuable dressing-case, in recognition of his valued services as a player for some years past. A London correspondent states: It is with deep regret that Scottish cricketers and footballers in general, and Edinburgh Academicals in particular, will learn of the death of the two brothers Gordon Glassford—J. 0. G. and A. D. G. —which took place within fourteen days of each other. Mr. J. 0. G. Glassford was home for a short holiday trom the Federated Malay States, which he was spending mostly in Gnllane. v/lmn lie was suddehly struck down with pneumonia, and died after four days" illness. Hardly had the grave closed ovi him when the sad neivs was received bv wire from the Federated Malay State's that bis' younger brother, Alee, had died out there of fever. The Glassfords had represented their school and club with distinction on both the cricket and football field, as well as the golf links. All the seven brothers who were at the ■Academy were in the cricket eleven and the football fifteen. Clement was captain of the eleven and fifteen, and Lewis and George both captained the eleven.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 269, 21 December 1909, Page 2
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659PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 269, 21 December 1909, Page 2
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