PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 55, 14 June 1910, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Sir i's. Kyffin Thomas, senior jvwaprietor of' the Register newspaper JAde laide) iirdead.—Press wire. Dr. Bel, investor of the telephone, ari rived' at 'Brisbah'if by tflse Makura, and •will visit' New fimlxmi after touting Australia.Mr. F. W,y!ds, ! iOTmerty of the tfis borne braiiVh, has sueceenVd Mr. Clial mers at the Hawe(rs« liTaiuMfio of the Bank of New Zeufcind.'Mr. Alfred Kkkl, or-SKP: for Auckland who has .been conlirrtM' to 1 Ms bed for th* past few weeiVs is sfevly recovering, butt it still unable to leavs the iv/ase. The death occurred at Mateo (Napier) on Sunday of ttieß'ev.. Krai Runga aged seventy, who Ifti'd' oeeir twenty-six years in the AkgHcara MMs-try.—Press wire. A Wellington' cwrsspomfetrt states tfrat Lady IPlunliet's* little' son-., who was fmnt in Pahnerston;' &rs-- Been l seriously ill in Ireland with'pneamonia, but was decidedly ibetter wheff Eord PJaasket left ffar Home. Lord Islington lias erri'ved in Mel-■boti-me, and will be-tiie' guest rf Sir W. HJSrrmichael until to'daj r whera he coutihmes liis journey t'o Sydney in the steamer Macedonia, arriving' in. Wellington' on the 22nd in.jt. : . i The death is recorded of one of Rangi-j tikWs oldest identities, iir -tlie person of th> late Mr. William Hammond, ] deffSft took place on Monday at the residence of his .brotfitr;. 3ifr;'Joint Ham-' momf, Mtnt'liison, Rkta. The deceased wia* tfte eldest son of the late Mr. Richard' Hammond, of York: Farm, where he wai fcorn sixty-two years ago, *tk! has resided in the district 'ever- since. For many years he, with, liis brothers, farm.ed'Yofik Farm, and after tlie dispersal saJ'u was interested iir a ibig extent of cowntry in the Riangitikef Block, v. later years Mr. Hammond resided at Rata. For some years* past the deceased gentleman was a martyr-to rftewmntism, emi for the last few'moiTths lias been confined to his room at Mbrchii,wri. where be-passed away as stated. Tlie deceased leaves a widow (his second wife) and a grawm-up family of four sons.