PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 272, 23 December 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. K. law, headmaster of the •Manaia State School, was in town yesterday. A London cable states that Mr. Herbert Gladstone has been gazetted (i > vernor-General of South Africa. On the eve of their departure i'im.i Stratford, and Mrs. J. D. Moris.»i were made the recipients of present tions from the townspeople and the iocal bowling club. Amongst the passengers by the Kara wa lor Onehunga last night were Air. R. H. Jiolau (of Hawera), Mr. Lawson (Inspector of the National Bank of Xe» Zealand), Mr. P. A. Hadlev, and Mr. A. D. Gray. The death occurred on November 7th. at Oakhurst, St. Helen's Park, Hastings, England, of Miss Kathleen Mary Kemp, youngest daughter of Dr. W. G. M.D., formerly of Wellington. .Mi-s 1 Kemp wag in her twenty-seventh yea r. Mr. K. McNab, who is iu London making researches into the records of ear!-, Xew Zealand history, has (writes I lie Times' correspondent) obtained porini.slon to examine in Paris the logs of HiFrench ships which founded the Akaroa I settlement in the early days, mid iviil leave London shortly for France. The Colonial Missionary Society, mi behalf of the Congregational Union of AVw Zealand, lias appointed Rev. William Tanner minister of the new cliuruh at Waipu and Rev. Ernest Dridgcr of the Mount Roskill and associate I churches The Revs. Tanner and Drillger sail by the Kiinutaka.—London cable. London correspondent states that .'.iY. inn* oiss lieillv. of Hawera, arc turning by the Corinthie. Miss Reilty has been taking singing lessons fro.u Madame .Minnie Fischer, in London. Mr and Mrs. \V. L. Luseombe. of New Plymouth, and formerly of Okaiuwii, who have been spending the .summer in the Old Country, arc also returning by the Corinthie. °