PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 30 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir J. 0. Ward returned from the south to-day. He leaves Wellington again to-night to attend the Governor's levee in Christehurch to-morrow. Mr. W. Stockley, an erstwhile foreman in the composing room of .this journaJ. leaves for Auckland to-night to join the linotype staff of the Auckland Star. Miss Rees, daughter of Mr. W. L. Rees. Gisborne, has received advice from the University Authorities that she has .pa.-sed the LL.B, examination. This. •Wiith her M.A. degree, entitles her to 'be called to the Bar.

Mr. L. Tressider, of the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court staff, has been transferred to Auckland. Mr. Reid, of Wellington, succeeds him. The Amateur Athletic Club and the Civil Service Football Club lose a very active and useful member.

Major Perry, who wag for twentyseven years a leading officer of the Salvation Army, and for twenty-six years head of the Biograph Department of that organisation, intends entering into the biograph business on his own 'behalf in the Dominion.

Captain H. W. Platts, of the collier Kini (which is due here from Westport and Grey mouth on Wednesday) has been successful in .placing a novel named '"Horace Danby" with a big syndicate of London publishers. The book, which is a tale of adventure throughout various parts of the world, is to .be out in September next. Captain Platts has written a number of magazine articles, but this is his first novel. He left Wellingtin by the Warrimoo on a month's holiday leave. Mr. Francis Terrill, a Marlborough pioneer, died mt Blenheim on Wednesday, aged 73 years. He arrived in Nelson in 1802 in the sailing vessel Magnum Bonum. After residing in Nelson for a time the gold rush set in on the Wairau diggings, and Mr. Terrill, together with several others, made his way thither over the Maungatapu. cutting* the first track from Nelson (says the Express). This was about the time that the neverto -be - forgotten Manngatapu murder took .place. Later on Mr. Terrill engaged in farming pursuits at Sunnyside.