PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 334, 9 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death oi Mrs. Julia Ellis, one of the oldest settlers in the Waverley district, is reported.

The Ecv. John Laird is taking his holiday at Ohakune. He left by the mail train yesterday morning. Lord Kitchener, accompanied by Mr and Mrs Parker, arrived by motor at Eotorua on Friday afternoon. After leaving Hotorua, the party proceeds, via Taupo, to Napier. Air J. H. O'Donnol], receiver of land revenue, Napier, has been promoted to a similar position in Auckland, and leaves for that city at the end of the present month. He will be succeeded at Napicn by .Mr 11. R. Robinson, at present receiver in Xevv Plymouth. Mr. Joseph Donovan, whose death took place at Wanganui last week at the advanced ape of 73, had been a resident of that town for half a century. He was born in County Kerry, Ireland, and joined the late 57th Foot when quite' a young man. He saw service in the Crimea and India, and then took his shaie in the early troubles in New Ze* land, arriving in the Dominion abou 1800. londing in New Plymouth, am subsequently coming on to Wanganui, where he made his home.

Air. Justice Williams last Thursday completed his thirty-fifth year of judicial service. The Otago Daily Times, commenting on the fact, says:—"The record which is involved in this circurotance is of an altogether exceptional occurrence. Writing subject to correction, we believe there is not another judge in the British Empire of whom it can be said that he has had a judicial career equal in duration to that of the distinguished lawyer and ripe scholar who is the doven of the Bench in New Zealand." When the New Zealand Methodist Conference received a. cablegram from the New South Wales Conference asking whether the former body could recommend two young ministers, one for mission work among the Hindus in. Fiji, and another for work in Papua, the New Zealand Conference decided to recommend the Bev. W. W. Avery for appointment to foreign mission work. Mr Avery is a Blenheim boy, has been attached to the Hawera circuit, was -'ordained recently, and is about to be mnrripd to Miss Belton, who is better known as the sister connected with the Dnnedin Central Mission.