PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 40, 27 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. R. Hutton, Chief Postmaster at Wellington, has retired after nearly 46 years' service. A London cable states that Miss Nora Long, of Wellington, has been engaged as principal soprano for the winter season at Lyons. The New Zealand Herald states that the funeral of the late Mr. F. E. 'lamile | will take place in Auckland. Mr-. Raume has announced her intention of r'turning 'by the next bolt, j Mr. John Boyd, well-known Hawke's : Rav sheet) farmer, was thrown from a horse and killed <>n Tuesdav at Inland .Pa tea. A stra-ige coMcideme is that ! ?-'r. Tiovd's wife's mother died at Give , at the'same time. j Madame Teresa Carreon arrived ill • Kvdney last week by the Mara ma from Vancouver. The celebrated pianist is :h: ompanieil bv her hii-bnn d. signor Ai'iuvo Tagliapietro, and two daughters. S'lf will tour Australasia under the direction of I Terr Benno ScTierek. ; His Excellency the Governor, ford I'l'nket, will meet his successor. Lord l- : ington, at Sydney. He will be ac- ; " anied to Australia bv Captain sermon. A.D.C., who will then return i" ■ similar capacity to the new Governor.

Tlii* dentli is announced at Reefton of t-vn old pioneers of the West Const. A. Tirown (one of the earliest managers in the district) and Thomas Hubert Lee (the first stockbroker in lieefton. and for years associated with .Mr. I!. P. McMnhon in nn awtio'.ieerin"' business). Ueut.-C'ol. Bauohoj). C.M.0., Officer Commanding tlie Wellington Military Pv'rvt, leaves for England shortly to a two wars' course of military training at Camberlcy St nil" College. IJeut.-Col. R W. Chavtor is nnii'Mmced as successor of Lieut.-Col. Buichim in command of the Wellington district.—Telegram. Dr. Chappie. M.P., late of New '/.cal:nul, has (says a London correspondent! written a little book on land holding, with a special reference to the systems prevailing in Xcw Zealand, and lias submitted it to Mr. Fisher I'nwin. Cassell and Co. are publishing another book of his on "First Principles in the Art of Physical Development.'" and a third hook he has written, on "Cases and Comments from a Doctor's Practice," is also in the hands of >pn'blMiers.

To Mr. Newton J. Moore, says the Perth Dailv News, belongs the distinction of being the youngest Premier in the Empire. Though he first entered his State Parliament only five and a-lialf years agio. he has for more than four years held ollice, and more of the time as Premier. First appointed to that i>osition at the age of Mr. Moore is not. vet 40. Big limbed, and suggesting great .physical strength in his every movement, deliberate in speech, and bigvoiced, Mr. Moore is typical of the successful colonist.

The doatli occurred at Wangaiiui yestordty of Alexander McDonald at tiie age of seventy-three. Deceased was well known throughout New Zealand, having been connected with the [police force for thirtv-thrce years, holding responsible positions'. He had charges in Canterbury and Westland. Deceased leaves a widow, five sons and two daughters. The sons are: Rev. Father McDonald. St. Anne's. Wellington South; Mr. L. 11. McDonald (National Bank. Kurow): Mr. C. H. McDonald (Bank X.Z., Auckland); Mr. TJ. B. McDonald (Bank N.S.W.. Dunedin); n-nd Mr. Ti. J. McDonald (Bank N.S.W.. Wanganui). The elder daughter is Sistor Mary Bernard, of the Convent of Sisters of Mercy at TTo'kitikn.

Mrs. Miirv Teresa Du Moulin, relict of the late Mr. J. P. Du Moulin, one of Auckland's pioneer settlers, parsed away on Saturday in her eighty-fourth year. Mrs. Du Moulin arrived in Auckland in the forties shortly after the Heke w.<f. and she experienced all the deprivations and vicissitudes inseparable from the lives of the early settlers in New Zealand (savs the Herald). A few years' after her arrival in New Zealand the defeased married her late husband, and with him went to Taranaki. and there saw some of the most stirring incidents of the Taranaki and ,Waikato wars. Her only son, Lieutenant-Colonel Du Moulin, was killed at Abraham's Kraal in South Africa on January 27, 1002, while commanding the Boval Sussex Regiment.