PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 90, 25 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Brisbane cable reports the death of Mrs. Kulston, wife of the Premier. At Opunake hist week Mr. George Mott'itl was married to Miss Mabel Wagstaff.

i The Opunake Mounted Rifles made a presentation of a gold watch and chain I to Captain Henty *ast week.

.Mr. .lames Park has been appointed Crown Solicitor at Hokitika; Mr. Michael Hanan Crown Solicitor at Greymouth; and Mr. A. A. Wilson Crown Solicitor at Westport.

Dr. Storey has resigned his position as medical superintendent at the Costley Home. Auckland. Dr. McKelvey, at present, assistant medical officer at the Avomule Mental Hospital, has been appointed to the vacancy.

An old resident of Hamilton, Mr. Join. Seale, died at Avondale Mental Hospital on (Saturday week. Deceased celebrated hk 100 th birthday about two years ago, ami it was owing to infirmity that he was admitted to the institution in which he died.

Owing to unforeseen circumstances, Mr. J. Morton, of the local telegraph stalf, who was to have started this week on a trip to the Old Country, has been recalled to X<sw Plymouth, and he will return by this evening's express. His tour is indefinitely postponed.

Mr. Stanley Grant, generul manager of George Marlow's Dramatic Company, and assistant are in New Plymouth to make arrangements for the company's return visit of one night on Wednesday, 3rd August. The play to be produced will be the well-known successful drama, "As Midnight Chimes."

In New York, on June 5, the death took place of Mr. Sydney Porter, who, as "O. Henry," has for some years been one of the most popular and deservedly .successful short-story writers in th« world. Mr. Porter was forty-two years old, and died after an operation for cirrhosis of the liver,

Mr. Charles iR. Pollen has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for the Hawke's Bay land district, and Mr. Thomas N. Brodrick has been appointed to a similar position in Canterbury. Mr. Francis K.. Greenfield has been appointed Chief Draughtsman in the Nelson Land Office,, vice Mr. David Gillies.

At the annual smoke concert of the Wellington mailroom staff on Saturday evening, Mr. J. A. Button, who recently retired on pension from the position of chief postmaster, was presented, on behalf of the combined mailroom stalls of the Wellington district with a. liqueur stand, a silver«mounted epergne,. and a. marble clock.—Press telegram.

Resolutions of sympathy were passed at the Acclimatisation Societies' Conference at Wellington on Thursday in regard to the deaths of Mr. J. A. Jones (Stratford) and Mr. Wilson (Otaki, formerly of New Plymouth). Delegates spoke in eulogistic terms of the good work both gentlemen had done in the interests of acclimatisation.

The funeral of the late Mr. Arthur Lea land will take place to-morrow, the body being brought from Hamilton for interment. Mr. Lealand, who has been a resident of New Plymouth for about twenty years, has a very large circle of friends locally, and the news of his serious illness for several months past, and of his demise last week, has been a source of keen regret.

I Mr. E. K. Mulgan, one of the North ! Canterbury Education Board's inspectors, ! recently appointed Chief Inspector of | Schools at Auckland, was presented on | Saturday, on Ibehalf of the North CanI teibury Educational Institute, with a j tr.ave,lling-rug, a case of pipes handsome- ! JVpiwuijted, a fountain, pen, and a'copy ,$w Salisbury and OhambeHMn'l r*6fk on 'geology. Mr. Mulgan's work! eulogised by several speakers. ;\'\'c < The death occurred at Opaki son \Vedncsday of one of Mastertpn'a Origijoal settlers,' Mrs. Jacob Matthews, tfifebeased, who. !\vas seventy-nine years of. age, arrived in' Wellington in the ship Westminster in 1850. With her family, she ! went to Masterton in 1837, trnere sae had resided ever since. Two sons (C. ; Matthews, of Pongaroa, and A. Mat- ! thews, of Opaki), and one daughter ' (Mrs. C. 1'!. Wilton, of Opaki) are left.

' The Bishop of Auckland has appointed the Rev. W. A. Butler, M.A., Waltham Tol'l ge, Oxford, to the cure at Stratford, in place of the Rev. H. A. Favell, who- : will lemain at Bishopscourt as domestic 1 chaplin in consequence of the continued ill-health of Dr. Neligiui. Since he went to the diocese three years ago Mr. Butier has been on the "staff of St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth, and has had cliarge of the Oniata district of the parish.

Sir George Clifford was re-elected president of the 'New Zealand Racing Conference on Thursday. In replying, he expressed satisfaction at the confidence reposed in him. He felt that the time bad nearly come when it was desirable to transfer the duties to other hands.. (Voices: No, No!) A little variety and a little new and more useful blood was a good thing. If at any time they agreed with him in that opinion he would only be too happy to resign to anyone tney might appoint.

At the Auckland University College on Tuesday night last a large gathering of students was present to farewell Mr.. Kenneth Sisam, M.A., the New Zealand •Rhodes scholar for 1010, who leaves for England to-day (Monday) for Oxford, where lie will he in residence nt Merton College. Professor Dettmann dwelt on •Mr. Sisam's brilliant scholastic career, and in particular his-many successes while at the Auckland University College, and on hehalf of the staff and students wished Mr. Sisam every possible Miccess.

"f am the only honorary doctor of medicine in the United States," said Dr. Eel!, the inventor of the telephone, when asked in Sydney if he ever practised as a doctor. ''lt w«s an honorary degree given to me by Heidleberg on account of some contributions I made to the art of surgery. When President Garfield lay dying [ made experiments to enable them to ascertain the position of the bullet by uieans of electricity. I am doctor of philosophy, law, science, and I am very proud to be an L.L.I), of Edinburgh. whne I was born, and a D.Eo. of Oxford."

Mr. Charles Tricklcbank died at Pahnersum North on Thursday. The de-cea-ei'.. who was eighty-one years of age, arrived in New Zealand in 185 C, coming out in the ship Oliver Lang on her first trip to this country. "He went to Foxton about four years later, and then on to Palmerston as early as 1860. In those days Palmerston was a bush wilderness, and Mr. Tricklehank, with a party of Maoris, canoed up the Manawatu from Foxton to see the country. He was the first brickmaker in the' district, and erected the first br ek chimney. He leaves a widow, ten daughters, two son*,-eighty-seven grandchildren, and thirtyone grcat-grandehiMreu. .... .. ' ,„ ~. ; '. ..,+