PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 378, 2 May 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL

Monsignor Pill'eri, who was for fifty years sacristan at the Vatican, died ill the Pope's arm-. -Cable. Mr. John Holmes ex-Produce IV :uissioner for New Zealand, is on a ~ricf ■business visit to New Plymouth, Mr. J. Patnn, who has been away to Rotorua and the North for a holidav, returned to New Plymouth on Saturday evening. •Sir Robert Stout has been nominated for the vacancy on the Victoria College Council caused by the resignation of the Hon. Dr. Findlay. Miss M. Fowler, who has severed her connection with the teaching staff at the Fitzrov School, was presented by teachers ami pupils on Friday with a gold brooch and a handbag. The private secretary of Lord Islington, our new Governor, will be Mr. Robertson Kerr Clark, and his aide-de-camp Captain M,ik, r ill Crichton Maitland, of the (Grenadier Guards. It is stated by the Thames Star that. Mr. 0. Core Adams, formerly director of the Thames School of Mines, and son of Mr. C. N. Adams, Lower Hutt, Wellington. has received an appointment in Bolivia worth CPJ(M) a year. It was stated some time ago that Dr. Bell, director of the Geological Survey, had received an invitation to accompany Captain Scott on his expedition to the Antarctic. It is now announced that Dr. Bell has decide,! not to go. Mr. Thomas Wells, the "father"' of Cambridge, died on Thursday, lie came to the colony in 1 Stilt in 11.M.5. Harrier, lie was wounded in tile attack on Rangiriri. From ISMS to 1574 he was on the Thames gohllields, and then went t<» Mercer, where he was in the tiinlier trade. lie removed in 1878 to Cambridge,'where he has done a nourishing business. The Rev. IT. S. Woolleombe, missioner of the Church of England Men's Society, I left Wellington for Sydney on Friday, en route to South Africa, . He was entertained by the Wellington diocesan branch prior to his departure, when Mr. Woolleombe was presented with a valuable carved greenstone paper-knife, with a gold inscription plate, in token of t-he helpfulness of his mission. I The death is announced of Mr. fieor«e Corbett, formerly of Okato, and latterly of Toko. The deceased gentleman, who was married to .Miss Roebuck, arrived in New Zealand lifty-fotir years ago, and lived ilie greater part of his life at Okato. He is survived bv his widow and. a family of eleven, mostly grown up. The funeral leaves the New Plymouth Hospital to-morrow, and is timed to arrive at Okato at 1.30 p.m. The many friends of Mr. John Stevens,, ex-member for M inawatu, will be dad to learn that his health shows considerable improvement. This (says the Advocate) is attributed to the adoption of the fasting system. For some time Mr. Stevens tried the "no-breakfast" idea, and finding thnt lie felt better he extended the term of fasting, in one case going entirely without food for fifteen

days. As a result he was able to take a certain amount of active exercise, andi it is stated that he feels greatly improved both physically and mentally. His ipersonal and political friends will hope that the improvement will be maintained.