PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 72, 4 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. M. Ferguson has been gazetted Consul for Belgium at Auckland. Mr. E. C. Middleton has been elacted a member of the Diocesan Synod for Opunake and Kaponga. Parata Te Tuhi, a celebrated old Waikato chief, .died yesterday at Margere. Deceased will be buried at Taupiri next week, when the usual tangi will be held. Mr. Jas. Suisted, a member of the Westport Harbor Board, and, for many years its chairman, also an ex-Mayor and a member of different local bodies, died 011 Saturday afternoon.—Press telegram.

The death occurred at Lower Hutt a few days ago of Mr. Alexander Pryde, sen., formerly of Eketahuna. Deceased, who was over eighty years of age, went to the Forty-Mile Bush over twenty years ago, and established himself as a farmer and sawmiller.

The late Mr. Bertram Armytage, who was a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton'K last Antarctic expedition, left to his wife and daughter an estate valued at £12,290—realty £3944 and .personalty £8340. Armytage, it will be remein- t ■bered. shot himself in a Melbourne Club. Mr. Zachariah Wells, of Ihaia Road, Opunake, is leaving for Queensland. where he intends to make his future home. His two sons preceded him some months ago. - This is the second farmer who has migrated from Opunake to Bananaland during July, says the local Times.

A London cable announces that Mr. A. Hacker, the well-known painter of domestic subjects, has been elected * Royal Academician. Mr. Hacker wag educated in London and Paris. He wa« a student at the Royal Academy in 1876, and studied under Bonnat in Paris in 1880-1881. His best known pictures are ''Her Daughter's Legacy," "The Mother," and "Children's Prayer." He has also painted many portraits. Mr. Adam Armstrong, a widely-known and esteemed resident of the Wairarapa, died in Wellington on Friday, aged sixtyfour years. He was born in the Xorth of Inland. Mr. Armstrong .had been associated with the Wairarapa district for a pciiod of about thirty-eight years. He was a former Mayor of Carterton, and wa- for many years returning officer for that district. The deceased in the early days was a schoolmaster, but in later year*-had been engaged in pastoral pursuits. He leaves a widow and four sons pd five daughters, among the former bei!)<r Mr. Geo. Armstrong, late of Opunnki.

Miss Krupp, the owner of the. famous Krupp steel and gun works in Gernmy, is out in this part of the world just now (states the Auckland Observer). She spent some time in Wellington, and went up to Rotorua the other day with a party of friends. Fraulein Krupp is a millionairess several times over. She inherited immense property two or three years ago. Theyoung lady is quiet and retiring, and has itao desire to shine in the social nrnflnt, which is rather unusual in a aHr 1 and pretty woman. She is easily" the wealthiest person in New Zealand at present, but she keeps very quiet about it all, and'the demon interviewers of the daily press hare, apparently, not yet heard of her existence.