PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 81, 14 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. Zachariah, successor to Mr. .1. B. Jack as district manager of the Public Trustee and Reserves Agent, has arrived in New Plymouth, and will take up his duties immediately. Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah are staying at the White Hart Hotel.

On the eve of his departure for Gisborne, Mr. M. H. Stichbury, of the local Post Office, was met by the staff and presented with four handsomely-bound volumes of the works of Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, and Shakespeare. In making the presentation, the Chief Postmaster, Mr. Chaney, referred to Mr. Stichbury's high qualities as an officer, and wislied him good luck in his new sphere. Mr. Stichbury suitably responded, and regretted leaving this town. The greatest sympathy is felt for Mrs. Baume, whose visit to Europe has had such an untimely conclusion (writes the London correspondent of the Wellington (Post). As will already be known in New Zealand, Mr. F. E. Baume passed away at Bail Nauheim, in Germany, on SaturI day, 14th May, and although he had been unwell, and, in fact, had left N?\v Zealand for a complete rest, yet the end came with startling suddenness. On Friday, 13th May, Mr. Baume was particularly cheerful, and a fatal termination to his illness was not for a minute contemplated. The end came with dramatic suddenness. At a quarter to five on Saturday morning Mrs. Baume asked her husband how he was feeling. He replied: ''l am feeling much better." Something in the tone of the voice probably attracted the attention of the nurse, who was in the room. She came to the bedside at once and discovered that life had passed away. The manv friends of the deceased gentleman will be relieved to hear that the end was so peaceful. Fortunately for Mrs. Baume. the German authorities were most kind, and the body was conveyed to London, whence it is being sent to New Zealand for interment at Auckland.