PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 384, 9 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

Madame Carreno, the eminent pianiste. will begin her New Zealand recitals at Dunedin in June.

Mr. Justice Cooper will preside at the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at Christchurch, commencing to-day. Dr. Bell, director of geographical surverv, has gone to Waihi, wljich will be his field headquarters during the current year.

A Palmerston Press message states that Lord Plunket was sufficiently recovered in health to have enjoyed a drive yesterday. Mr. W. H. Morton. Wellington City Engineer, and formerly Intelligence Officcd to the local volunteer battalion, is promoted Captain Commanding No. 1 Territorial Garrison Artillery. Dr. A. H. P. Crosby, of the Mount View Mental Hospital, and Mrs. Crosby (who is a medical woman) have left for Sydney en route to London, where they will examine modern methods of treating the mentally afflicted.

Mr. Jas. Boddie, formerly of Eltham, has been elected Mayor of Te Kuifci. There were four candidates, and he scored 199 votes to his next opponent's 126 votes. He was also nominated for the Council, and was returned second on the list.

Mr. Leonard tt. Reid, of the Crown' Law Office, who is about to take up duty as a stipendiary magistrate at New Plymouth, occupied the Bench at, the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court with! Mr. W. G. Riddel!, S.M., on Saturday in J Wellington during part of the morn-i tag's proceedings. I A movement is on foot to perpetuate' the memory of the late Hou. Francis Trask, by erecting a permanent memor-| iai in Nelson, of a nature to (be decided later (says the Colonist). At the' invitation of a number of citizens, the Mayor convened a public meeting to dis-j cuss the matter, the result being *a wellattended meeting, which unanimously resolved that it was fitting that ' Mr. Trask's memory should be perpetuated in the district in the manner indicated,' and it was decided to take immediate steps to give effect to ( the decision. I A shock was caused on Saturday i morning in commercial circles, and 111 a I large section of the communit)', when! it became known that Mr. Ernest Ifwer- j son, one of the best-known commercial! travellers for some years in the Tara-| naki and Gisborne districts, had suc-j cumbed to an apopletic seizure. Mr.! Tfwersou grew up in the firm of Messrs.! Sargood. Son and Ewen. and for some years he represented them "on the! road" as the senior fancy goods traveller About four years ago he severed! his connection with the firm and set J up with Mr. Rawlinson. the manager oti Messrs. Sargood. Son and Ewen's fancvl department, and together they estab-j lished the present business of Rawlinson and Jfworson. Whilst on bis usual business visit to New Plymouth on Friday it was noticed that he lookedj very unwell, and lie confessed to feeling! ill. About 4 o'clock he was seen to stagger as he was approaching his hotel. He was assisted inside, and Dr. I'ookes was summoned. Mr. Ifwerson was removed to Miss Baker's private hospital, and despite all that could be dime by Drs. Fookes and Wylie, he passed a>\vay early on Saturday morning without having regained conscious-j ness. J-Te leaves a widow and . seven I children, the eldest of whom is about' seventeen years old. I