PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 382, 6 May 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL

Dr. L. Cockayne, 'of Christchurch, has been elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Mr. T. lline, of Wanganui, arrived in New IPlym'outli by last night's express, and will .spend a few days here. Sergeant Ilogan. of Auckland, will replace Sergeant Smart at Hastings, the latter having retired Am pension. A London cable states that General Sir Francis Egyptian Sirdar, has successfully undergone a serioua operation. The Rev. F. W. Isitt arrived ' i New Plymouth by hi,; Might's omuv . He will meet tne friends of No-l/i, -e at Whitelcy Schoolroom this eveni:. . His Excellency llie (iovenior pitted a quiet night, and was somewhat better yesterday, says a Cress wire from Paimerston Xorth Jyestciday afternoon. Dr. Champtahnrj, the newly-appointed District Health Jnliccr at Dunedin, arrived at Dunedin from England by the Ulimaroa, from .Melbourne, on Tuesday. Miss Ellen Tracey, who has been town clerk at Clinton for some time past, has resigned her position. She was !the first lady town clerk in New. Zealand. Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, arrived at Lepperton Inst night by the mail train on a short visit to Taranaki. He will be in New Ply. mouth on (Saturday. The lie v. Father Johnston, of Waipawa. has received m letter from Archbishop Redwood informing him of his promotion u> be parish priest ot Kaikoura, in the Marlborough district. Captain J. Robertson .did not quit the bridge of the Tarawera for three davs and nights during the vessel's recent boisterous passage from Auckland to Wellington. He )was presented with a testimonial from the passengers. Mr. D. J. Prtee, of Ilawera, died on Wednesday nijrht. The deceased 'had been in ill-health for some eight weeks. The late Mr. Price was very well known in the district, having been in business in Ilawera for about six years.—Star. . An old Blenheim name appears in the list of newly-elected Senators in the Commonwealth (says the Marlborough Express). Mr. Arthur Rae, one time a resilient of Blenheim, has been elected a Senator for New South Wales. [ The Rev. J. W. Walker has resigned his position as vicar of St. Thomas', Newtown. His successor is the Rev. E. T. W. Bond, vicar of Maryborough, and formerly curate of St. Mark's, Wellington. The Rev. J. W. Walker has been appointed vicar of Aramoho. Mr. C. F. Young, of Tariki, who has been a member of the Moa Road Board for some time, hns decided to withdraw from the election on Saturday. He allowed fiimself to be nominated, but since finds that pressure of business will not allow him to devote sufficient time to the ratepayers' interests. Old Taranaki residents will regret to learn of the death of lEliza, relict of the late Mr. Fletcher '.Duller, of the Lands Department, Wellington, and youngest daughter of the late Mr. Bishop, of Waiwakniho. On a recent visit to Wang.uiui Mrs. Buller was taken suddenly ill, and, complications developing, her end came as a great shock to a (wide circle of friends. The late .Sir Walter Buller was n brother-in-law of the deceased hid v.—Stratford Post.

Mr. Clement Wragge left Duuedin by the Moana. He is specially visiting Tasmania for the purpose of witnessing the approaching eclipse of the sun, and will be absent from iNew- Zealand for about three months. Upon his return he intends to pursue his researches in the far north in the anticipation that additional evidence will be furnished of the soundness oi his theory that New Zealand was inhibited at one time by a race greatly exceeding its present residents in stature. The Masterlon Times reports thai Mr. Thomas Kempton. sen., of Elm Grove, Grey town, died at Carterton on Friday. Deceased was one lof the earliest settlers in the Wairarapa, where he resided some fifty years. He took up a farm when the district was practically n wilderness and there was only a bridle-track over the Rimutaka ranges. As the istrict advanced and the township of Greytown sprang up, he interested himself in local .politics, and held the offices of councillor and Mayor respectively at various periods. , Mr. Leonard G. Reid. lAssistant Crown Law Officer, who has been appointed to the Magisterial Bench, and who takes up relieving work at New Plymouth next week, was born in the Falkland Islands, and is a son of Captain Reid, of the 45th Regiment, who was seat out in 1852 to Tasmania as staff-officer of pensions. Mr, Reid came to New Zeiland in ISfiO. landing in Hokitika. and was articled to Messrs. Duller and Reid. He completed his articles with Messrs. Travers and Ollivier, (Wellington, in 1870. Mr. Reid practised his profession on the West Coast and at Timaru till 1885, when he was appointed to the Crown Law OJlice. Mr. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, gave a reception to Lord Islington (the Governor-elect of New Zealand) jaiul Lady Islington at the Westminster P.ilnce Hotel (states a London cable). Amongst those present ere: Sir George Reid, the AgentsGener 1 nf the Australian colonics, Lord Ranfurlv. Sir .Westbv and Ladv Pr eeval, Mr.' W. P. Reeves (late High C mmissioner for New Zealand), Sir C. Lucas. Sir M. nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Kennawar. Dr. Chappie, M.P., Major D. Alexander. Mr. W. Acton-Adams, Lady and Mi*s Stout, Judge Denniston, Captain Beamish, the Hon. C. Louisson, Dr. Angus P.. McNab. Air. C. 'Tegetmeier, Mr. Wray-Palliscr. Sir F. Hopwood, and members of the Ballaneo, Callender. nnd Seymour Thorne-Georgc families, who are at |pro<cnt in London. Writing of the singing of Miss Winnie Nixon (daughter of the Rev. Mr. Nixon, of New (Plymouth) at Wellington on Wedne -lay evening, the Times say 6: "Miss Winnie Nixon has had no trai»ing in voice-production, yet she gave brilliant renderings of |<ome of the fi--:i<l items to be found on higk-elass con "rt programmes, her voice rising clear and full of power to C in ,alt, and reaching down to A flat in another number. It has flexibility and power, and, best of all, ithe owner of this gift has tlw intuition of an artiste in song, a power of expression which ought to place her / in the frost rank of vocalists. There were some faults—these could hardly be missing under the circumstances —and acourse in voice-production will, it was evident, considerably improve the power and purity of her lower notes, bat ■wdtkout such a training Wiss Nixon is. a singer who can be listened to with complete delight."