PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 306, 4 February 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

o„ M v\vf" °' Comior > of Stratford, di-d on Wednesday, aged 01. wit R , PV - 'I" n ' Cha P man re <«™«d o»i wSste from a teu *# "P *• Captain Hugo. Inspector of Fire BriWpi 18 m n°V h aild wiu ins PWt the Plymouth Brigade to-night. Mr. James Milne, a very old settler and lor many years chairman of the South island Dairy Association, died ;t Wyndliam on Tuesday, aged 70. Th e Rev. John Nixon, for many years the popular pastor of the Queen Street Primitive Methodist Church, will take charge during the absence of the Kev. J. Guy in England. Mr. J. K. Law, headmaster of the Manaia State School, has definitely decided to accept a similar position at iramoho, and leaves Manaia "in about two months' time.—Witness. Mr. C, E. Simmonds, for the past eight years coaching foreman at the Xew Plymouth railway station, has received notice of transfer to Palmerston North, and will leave in the course of a week or so. News has been received in Christchurch that it has been arranged that Dr.. Wilson, zoologist and artist, will be chief of the scientific stall of Captain Scott's next expedition to the Antarctic. It is expected that three geologists will accompany the expedition' (says the Lyttelton Times). Dr. J. ?,f. Bell, director of The Geological Survey of New Zealand, will almost certainly be one of tlieni, and it is probable that Mr. Allan Thomson, a son of Mr. G. M;. Thomson, member of the House of Re--presentatives Tor Dunedin North, will also be one of the geologists. Mr. Thomson is a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar. He has studied under some of the eminent geologists in England, and is at present engaged on important geological work in West Australia, whieh, however, will be completed before the expedition leaves New Zealand. It i? not known who the third peolojist will be. It was expected that Mr. R. Simoson, of the Indian Survey Department, would be the physicist, r oiit he has failed to obtain the necessary leave. There will be two, perhaps three, biologists. With Dr. Wilson there will be associated another medical man, who will study botany and bacteriology, giving special attention to the investigation of blood parasites. The services of Mr. C. 8. Meares, who lately completed a journey on the Chino-Thibeton frontier, have been secured. He will leave England soon for Eastern Siberia to obtain ponies and dogs. He will collect lha animals at Vladivostock. From there they will be transhipped for Au«tra'ia. and New Zealand. Mr. Meares will jointhe expedition in New Zcalaha.