PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 297, 25 January 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

It is stated that it is th ( . intention of the Right Dr. K. Wallis, Bishop of •Wellington. to retire shortlv.

Caiuiiiii Newton, the new harbormaster, panl a visit to New I'lvmoulli yesterday. TT.; will take up his duties on Februarv I«st next.

A London cable states that .Mr. Hall Jones, High Commissioner lor New Zealand. ha«s recovered from his recent illness and has relumed to work.

Amongst the pufscngers by the Ra.rawa :or Omdiuiiga last night were M<s>-rs !t-aac Baviy. C. Arnold-.lone*, !•', Fagan, Kiugsweh, (ieorgc Itawsun, Caplain Newton and Rev. Warner.

.Ml - . George Johnston is retiring from the management of the Standard Insurance Company, Auckland. For over 'thirty-seven years he had been counected with insurance busines's in Auckland.

Writing to a New Plymouth friend, Mr. J. I'railsfonl, formeriy of New Plymouth, says he is getting on well in his journalistic prote>sion in San Franeis»o. Wage* there, however, are no bettor than in X\'w Zealand, when the cost of living is considered.

News has been received from Fiji of the death of .Mr. David Wilkinson, for many years chief interpreter and Native Commissioner, and latterlv Commissioner of Native Lands, lie was ouo ai the pioneers of the colony, having reside 1 in Fiji for nearly fifty years. The deceased gentleman leaves a widow and four daughters, the eldest of whom married Captain Robert Cocks, father of Lady Macgregor.

Lord Kitchener, who is due to arrive in the Domiiiion in another fortnight, according to a lady writer in the liul Ictin, has a lister living in Canterbury, Maoriland. She is a Airs. Parker, and very like her great brother in appearance and independence. The Parkers have a run, and the lady rounds tip stock, brands it, rides like a boundary rider, drives any old thing hito Christchurch. and doesn't care a kumara for the Smart Set or its opinions. One of lier daughters married a workman on the estate, and when 1 heard of a second she was doing political work in Auckland. Jif I'licie Kitchener meets this branch of the family tree when he is in ilaorilaikl, he will be more, than ever glad lie came, for his kinsfolk are real good sports.

Dr. Alfred Agassi/ died at Sydney recently, at the age of seventy years. He was a native of Devonshire, and the sixth son of the late Lewis Agassiz, ot Bradfield, Essex, lie took his M.R.C.S. (Eng.) degree in lS(il), and while on a trip to Melbourne was induced by Colonel Pitt to join the forces being raised to fight the .Maoris. On arrival ill Auckland he was appointed by Sir George Grey assistant surgeon of the 70th Regiment, and took part in many liattles of the campaign. On one oeeasion he was captured by the rebel .Maoris, but a friendly chief, to whom lie had acted as medical adviser, rescued liim and took him out of danger. At the dose o? the war Dr. Agassiz held several civil appointments under, the New Zealand Government, and then went to New South Wales. For a time lie was medical superintendent of Bay View Hospital, Cook's river, and afterwards practised at Cootamundra. Finding his health impaired, Dr. Agassiz returned to Sydney, and started practice, but he suffered so much that he made several trips' to England and the Continent. The last trip he made alone, returning to Sydney about three months ago. He was then in a low condition, and never rallied, dying on the Gtli inst.