PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 361, 12 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

Among the passengers per Rarawa for Auckland jlasr night, were Rev. the Hon. Mr. Yarde-Buller, Archdeacon Cole, Mr. and Mrs. A. Lealand, Mr. and Mrs. A. Raynea.

Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, who are taking up their residence at Tariki, were farewelled by the residents of Marton and presented with an illuminated address and a travelling rug.

Mr. W. R. Loeder, at present engineer to the Clutha County Council, has been appointed borough engineer at Timaru at a salary of £350 per annum. There were thirty-one applicants.

Constable Hickman, of; Opunake, was in town yesterday. The smallest policeman in the Dominion, ajnd one of the most. popular, seems' to 'have quite recovered from his recent 'severe illness.

Mr. Stanley Grant, manager of Geo. Mariow's ''Married to the Wrong Man" Company, which is to nppear here on the ISth inst., was in town yesterday, and leaves for the south .by this morning's train.

A London cablegram confirming the appointment of Sir John Dickson-Poynder as Governor of New Zealand adds that Lord Plunket will be invested with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. On Saturday afternoon Mr. F. Calgher, of Inglewood, who is leaving the Railway Hotel to enter into possession of the Terminus Hotel, New Plymouth, was entertained by the citizens and presented with a silver tea service.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington last night; was to the effect that Mr. D. A. Eweu has been elected a. director of Messrs. Sargood, Son and Ewen. The new director is a son of Mr. J. A. Ewen, one of the principals of the firm.

The Christian World records the death of Mr. Henry Baker, Mm. Bac, who is known nil over the English-speaking world by his tune "Hesperus," • sometimes called '•Whitburn," written some forty years ago, and many other hymn tunes.

Mr. F. P. Corkill, Provincial Grand Master of the Masonic Order, has received an intimation that His Excellency the Governor will pay his farewell visit to New Plymouth on Wednesday, May 18, probably arriving by the morning tram, and leaving by the evening steamer for Onehunga.

Lpon the motion of his Worship the Mayor, the New Plymouth Borough Council decided last night to send an official and cordial invitation, on behalf of the burgesses, to his Excellency Lord P unket to pay a farewell visit to New Plymouth on 18th May next. A com« roittee comprising the Mayor and Councillors Dockrill, Bell ringer,' Wilson, Watkins, and Clarke was set up to make arrangements.

The death is announced of Bishop Cvrus David Foss at the age of seventysix years, one of the most successful administrators in American Methodism He was president of the Weslevan University, Middletown, from 187o" to 1880. when he was elected Bishop. Tn 1886 he was fraternal delegate to the British Weslevan Conference at City road. He was the author of "Jtelirrious Certainties," and ••From the Himalayas to tlie Eouator." in addition to numerous contributions to the periodical Press. Mr. Arthur Kempthornc. one of the oldest settlers of Poverty Bay, has died of pneumonia. He landed in Auckland m 1842, and was educated at the Auckland Grammar School under Dr. Kinder and was afterwards engaged for three years under Bishop Williams, the first Bishop of Waiapu. in teaching at the native training college at Waerengaahika He took up land near Ormond in 1860, and resided there ever since There are two brothers in New Zealand -the.Rev. J. P. Kempthorne. of Nelson, and Mr. E. Kempthorne, of Timaru, and a sister at Auckland. Mrs. Kissling The Rev Mr. Kempthorne, of Fitzroy, is a nephew. •"

Mr. Will. HntoWiu, „/ Hawera, is now studying music in London. He arrived V- £™ enk in September last, and within eighteen hours of landing succeeded in passing the entrance examination at the Koynl Academy of Music. He was fortunate in Wing placed under one of tne finest singing masters in England the veteran Frederick Walker, whose verdict at the end of the first term was to the effect that the New Zeaiander had made astonishing progress and that His voice (tenor) was so flexible as to render good training easv. Mr. Hutohms' pianoforte master is his younger brother Frank. ~-ho, after winnih* various prizes, scholarships, and medals, oroke all records in his appointment to a sub-professorship at the Roval Academy of Music at the age of sixteen years.

The election of Dr. Wright as Primate of Australia and Tasmania should give general satisfaction in Anglican circles (sajs the Sydney Mornin? Herald). When in England, the new Primate had the Archdeaconry of Manchester, which has about six hundred clergy in it, and is second in the Empire only to that of London. Dr. Wright is the fifth of the line of Australian bishops and the second Archbishop of Sydney, his predecessors being Bishop Broughton (1836-53), Bishop Barker (1854-82). Bishop Barry (1884-89).- and Archbishop Saumarez Smith (1890-lflfl!)). The late Dr. Frederick Barker was made Primate of Australia in 1872. Dr. Alfred Barrv, who is still alive in England, succeeded Dr. Barker in the primacy. The late Dr. Snumarez Smith was consecrated Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia and Tasmania on 24th June, 1890.