PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 348, 26 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable message from Ottawa states that Professor (ioldwin Smith is recovering, and is likely soon to leave his room. Messrs. B. Chaney, Townsend (Waitara), and Tristram (Eltham) proceeded to Auckland by the Rarawa last evening. On Thursday night Mr. H. S. Matthews, an old and respected resident of Egmont Village, passed away, after a long illness (writes our own correspondent). Mr. Matthews leaves a widow and one daughter, a girl of thirteen years. He has been suffering for some six months, and about six weeks ago was removed to the New Plymouth" Hospital, but about a month a?o lie was brought home again, where he has since remained. He has been very low for some time past, and little hope was held out for his ultimate recovery. Mr. Matthews had been a settler in the district for manr years past, and was respected bv all. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. Matthews. The funeral takes place this afternoon. • Miss A. W. Whitelaw, of Auckland, who has been appointed head mistress of the Wycombe Abbey School, England, at present holds the position of head mistress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, and is an educationalist of great ability (states a Press Association message). Her career has been one of uninterrupted success, and she is now to assume control of one of the most important girls' schools in the Empire. Miss Whitelaw was educated in Auckland, and was for nine years attached to the school to which she has just been appointed, being house mistress for six years. When the Auckland College and Grammar School was divided into two sections, sbe was chosen from a large list of applicants to undertake the work of organising and controlling the girU' section, and during the three and a-half years which she has acted as head mistress splendid work has been accomplished. The Wycombe Abbey School to which she now retuns was founded by Mi«s Dove in 1800. The school is limited in numbers to about 230 pupils, all boarders, and these are divided into eitrht houses, nil in the grounds, which are some 33 acres in size. Excepting Cheltenham, the school is the largest girls' boarding school in England.