PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 296, 24 January 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

• A Sydney cable states thai Sir (Jeorge lieid. the now Uig'ii Commissioner fur Australia, lias sailed for London. Rev. 11. A. Kav.'li. vicar of Stratfurl. is acting-chaplain of Bis'iiopscourt. Auckhtnd. during the aln-emv of Bishop Xeligan. Mrs. Alary Godbehore, relict of M,\ Samuel (lodbohero. Feilding, died last week at the ripe old age of almost ninety year?. Mr. 0. Dawson has been re-appointnl elerk to tlio Waimate West County Council. There were IS applicants f ;>r tlie position. Mr. F. I'. Battley. a well-known me.nl)er of the legal profession :u Auckland, died on Wednesday morning last, aged about forty years. Rev. ,1. Kempthorne, who has boon appointed to the charge of the Te Ileniii parochial district, takes up his duties .'t the end of the present week. Miss Reeves, daughter of tile Hoi. AY. P. Reeves (ex-lliq/i Commissioner for New Zealand), of London, is spending a tow days with friends in Xew 'Plymouth. Mr. Stanley Stronge, of Opunakf. is lying seriously ill at til" Xew Plymouth Hospital, whence lu- came to undergo an operation. The doctors consider the latter is not advisable. Mr. AY. 11. Hciries, M.P.. told an Opot'lvi Herald representative the other day ihat~lie had disposed of most of his landed property, and intended to devote himself entirely to politics.' A London cablegram .states that the newspaper Scotsman anticipates that Ean Dudley. Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, will succeed to the \ r iceroysliip of India <r Governor-Generatahip of Canada. The Hon. C. G. AA'ade, Premier of Now South AValcs, is at present in Wellington, says a Press Association wire, nft'-ir •spending some time in the Uotorua district. He intends to visit tlie AVairarapa. and to return to Sydney va Auckland on Monday week, sooner than lie had at first pronosed. His health'his been very- much nTipvoved by his holiday in Xew Zealand.