PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 300, 28 January 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Thp riawke s Hay Education Don'd ha.s appointed M;---. Allies S. Vernon, of Invercargill, as an instructor in dressmaking and cookery.—Pre-s wire.

Mr. W. A. Simpson, who was stated in yesterday morning's issue to b:.° leaving 'immediately for Canada, intend? first to make a tour 0 f the South Island.

Word has been received (hat Mr. Jeffrey Osborne, eldest I=oll of th? Rev. Osborne, of Xew Plymouth, has passed his final medical examination at Edinburgh University. Lieut. Herd, the conductor of the. Wellington Garrison Rind, has just completed twenty years' service in that capacity. Jle to<£*"charge of the band on January Ist, 1S!)0. Mr, Roliert MeXab, writinj to a friend in Wellington under date November 23, says he was then at Grimsby, looking up Cook documents and reiies. lie intended visiting Aberdeen, where lie was to lecture on Xew Zealand. Advices from Home state that Mr. Lionel Fruhanf, ,son of a Wellington pawnbroker, has passed bis L.D.S. examination with honors. He has now been selected by Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for tlie Colonies, to proceed to Somaliland with the British troops for professional duty. On the expiration of Iris) term of service in East Africa lie •will maice a snort stay at Capetown before returning to Xew Zealand to engage in practice as a dentist.. With the death of Robert William Lacy, at th« Veterans' Home, Auckland, on Sunday, there passed away one of the last of the seamen typical of Xel'son's time. Lacy was bom in 1524, and was present at the 'bombardment of Bej'i'out, ot Svebourg and Algiers. He took part in the capture of Sevastopol, and saw service in the suppression of slave-trading on the Cold Coast. lie was for some time in the coastguard service, and after having seen twentyeight years in the British Xavv he came ,to X*w Zealand with his .wife and family in ISi4. Since the death of his wife, which occurred five years ago, he had (says the Star) lived at the Veterans' Home, wnerc his simple and strong character endeared him to all. The deceased was in receipt cf the Greenwich Hospital special pension and of the old age pension. Among the tokens of reflects sent were some from the prese.it Vice-Regal party and from the late Governor, Lord Ranfnrly.