PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 354, 4 April 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sergeant-Major Armitage, 01 New Plymouth, is a patient in the hospital. A Press Association wire from Sydney says Lady Luiuey is able to leave her Jjed, and Has received a -few visitors. Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., who was injured m a motor-car accident, is progressing "favorably towards recovery, and it is hoped that he will soon be about again. Dr. J. Q. A. Henry, the American missionary who is to exploit Nev\' Zealand, has been invited to visit New ■Plymouth. Dr. Henry arrives in Wellington from Australia on Wednesday. Mr. T. G. Hirst, who succeeds Mr. F. G. Kimbell as manager of the New Plymouth branch of the t;ank of Australasia, has arrived in town. Mr. Kimbell leaves to take up his new appointment at Hawera on \\ ednesday or Thursday. Messrs A. R. Meek (graduates' representative), A. T. Maginnity (Education Board), T. R. Fleming (teachers'), aud M. F. von Haast (Parliamentary), the retiring members of the Victoria College Council, have been re-elected unopposed. The Patea Press reports that Mr. \V. Gadsby, who was for many years farming at Cloverdale, Patea, and more recently at Waipuna, Mantitahi, has lately bought a 1000-acre block of land in the Te Kuiti district, where he expects shortly to reside.

A farewell concert and social was tendered to the Rev. Mr. Avery at the Manaia Methodist Church on Thursdayevening. The rev. gentleman, who is entering the New Guinea mission field shortly, was the recipient of a purse of sovereigns from members of the church in the district.

A London cable announces the death of the Right Rev. Alfred Barry, Canon of Windsor, who died at hia residence, ''The Cloisters," Windsor aged 84. The deceased was Bishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia from 1884 to ISS9, when he returned to England anil became Assistant Bishop in the diocese of Rochester till 1891. In 1805 he was appointed rector' of St. James', Piccadilly, which position he held until 1900.

Miss Marianne Hensley died at Bath, England, on February 14th, at the age of 104. She retained her faculties and courage to the end, and would sit for ■hours reading, writing, sewing or knitting in her room. October 15th was .her birthday, and on the last two anniversaries Miss Hensley received congratulatory messages from King Edward, to which she replied in her own neat handwriting. She had dwelt for seventy-six years continuously in the same house.

The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Dingle will"be interested to learn that letters were received from them by iast mail (says the Hawera Star). When writing they were at Nice. On the way there 'from London they experienced the first of the rains that led to the disastrous floods in Paris, but fortunately did not •stay in that city, pushing on southward, where the weather during the autumn was all that could be desired. Mr. and Mrs. Dingle will probably not return to New Zealand until about the end of the year.

, In accordance with regulations passed by the Defence De.p..rtment some years ago, Lieutenant-Colonel Okey has forwarded his resignation of the position of officer commanding the Fourth Wellington (Taranaki) Battalion, his term of .five years having expired. He has applied to be placed on the unattached active list. Lieutenant-Colonel Okey first became a volunteer in 1871, when he joined the Egmont Rifles. " The company was disbanded in 1874, and two years later He joined the Taranaki Rifles, and has served continuously since, rising step hy step from the ranks to the command of the battalion.

Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, Bishop Verdon, of Dunedin, and Bishop Grimes held a conference in Christchurch on Wednesday in connection with the appointment of a successor to the late Bishop Lenihan, of Auckland, and decided to send to Rome the three candidates nominated by the clergy of the diocese. The procedure (says the Lyttelton Times) is for the clergy to make three nominations, -which are forwarded to the Archbishop. They are discussed conference of the Archbishop and Bishops of the province, and are forwarded by them to his Holiness the 'Pope, with observations. Archbishop Redwood "will go south to Timaru. Bishop Verdon will go on to Auckland, ■where he will pontificate at the Mass to be celebrated a month after Bishop Leni•han's funeral.

The "Lady of the House," a Dublin journal, in a recent issue, says: "Lady Plunket, who has lately taken a house at Cheltenham, where Lord Plunket will join her on his return from New Zealand, had a somewhat uncommon hobby as a girl —namely, collecting cleverly designed picture posters. While her father, the late Marquis of Dufferin, was British Ambassador to France, Lady Plunket got together a fine collection of French posters, executed for wealthy business firms by prominent French artists. All that time artistic posters were practically unknown in the British Isles, and the comparatively recent improvement in this form of advertising is due to an enterprising English manufacturer ♦wio studied in Paris the methods under which pictorial advertisements were executed there. Lady Plunket brought all her pictures to Old Conna Bray, after her marriage, and the room in which they hung was often visited by her friends." Mr. A. J. Rossiter, of the Wellington District Crown Lands Office, who is to take up the position of Receiver of Land Revenue at New Plymouth,' was presented by his colleagues on Friday with a silver tea service on a silver-mounted and inscribed oak tray, together with a case of silver spoons (says the Wellington Times). Mr. Rossiter's popularity and thorough efficiency as an officer was spoken of by Mr. James Mackenzie (Commissioner of Crown Lands) who made the presentation, Mr. T. G. Weight (Receiver of Land Revenue), Mr. M. C. Smith (chief draughtsman), jand Mr. George Wright (chief clerk). The Commissioner had known Mr. Rossiter for sixteen years, and, like the other speakers, had a hirfi opinion of his social, as well as business qualities. Mr. Weight hoped promotion would bring the recipient back to Wellington, for he would be well able to fill the position which he (the speaker) would in due cour* vacate on superannuation. Mr. Rossiter made ft feeling acKnowledgment of the gifts, and commenting jocularly upon the personal praise, suggested laughter, that he was evidentlr not going to be brought back to Wellington as Receiver of Land Revenue, but as Under-Secretary of the Department. A number of personal friends presented Mr. Rossiter earlier in the day with a gold watch and a handsome «a«« of pipes. ■-:,-*..„