PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 91, 26 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. L. Whetter, of Dunedin, is spending a week's holiday in New Plymouth. 'Mr. L. Steele, of Fitzroy, has returned to New Plymouth from "a trip to Australia. Mr. J. Chadwick, the well-known sporting writer and handieapper, was in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. Southey Baker, of Auckland, and formerly a resident of thi.s district, is paying a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. H. Nixon, son of the Rev. J. Nixon, has been appointed to tlie sub-editoriaJ stall of the Christchurch Press.

The death is announced of the Rev. D. W. Runciman, who was a retired registrar of the Auckland University. Mr. and Mrs. A. Alexander, of New Plymouth, left last week for Auckland, en route to Australia, for a couple of months' holiday. At Ngaere Church on Thursday afternoon Mr. Albert P. Wood was married to Miss Helen D. Carter, the Rev. Colin R. Harrison officiating. A London cablegram states that Queen Alexandra is expected to visit Yrnunden, in Austria, on the 30th inst., staying there for some weeks.

The following were amongst the passengers per s.s. fiarawa for Auckland last night:—Rev. and Mrs. F. G. Evans and Miss F. Evan9, Messrs. L. Spencer, Stanley Grant, and J. W. Wilson. Mr. F. Black, A.M.1.E.E., who has been engaged to report upon the scheme to instal an electric .tramway scheme in New Plymouth, will arrive here from Wellington on the night of Ist August. Mr. G. Tisch, Mayor of New Plymouth, left for Wellington yesterday morning to give evidence before the Local Bills Committee concerning the New Plymouth Racecourse Reserve Leasing Bill, now before Parliament.

Dr. Henry, evangelist, is now conducting his, mission at Petone. At a welcome on Saturday he outlined a plan of campaign, and .exhorted co-operation among the churches. Crowded meetings were held on Sunday.—Press Association Mr. P. Q. Pryde, who for over thirty years bias occupied the position of secretary of the Otago Education Board, and has been forty years in the board's service, retires from that position on superannuation at the end of the prw«at month, says the Daily Times. Mr. Peter Gow, proprietor of the Tavistock Hotel, Waipukurau, which he personally conducted for many years,, died on Saturday, aged seventyitwo yearß. The deceased was a very familiar figure throughout the. Hawke's Bay district, where he settled in 1869. Canon Ease'lden, of Auckland, states that in addition to the twelve Church of England misaioners, wdiose name** have been already published, three more clergymen are coming from England, namely, the Revs. J. H. Darby, E. D. Evans and H. M. Kinloch, and a lay reader, Mr. H. Bell. They are to arrive :n August. Mr. Williams, Director of Education in South Australia, is on a short visit to Bawera. Mr. Williams is on a health trip, so that he has not made an official study of New Zealand's educatioa system. At the same time he has made use of whatever opportunity afforded to enquire into the educa-tional work of this Dominion.—Star.

At All Saints' Church, Palmerston North, on Sunday, the Venerable Archdeacon Harper announced that he had been nominated to th e parish of St. Peter's, Wellington, and that he considered it hia duty to accept the nomination, especially as the Bishop was of the same opinion. Archdeacon Harper has been in charge of Palmerston North sinwv 1000.

Mr. William A. Beddoe, the newlyappointed Canadian Trade Commissioner of New Zealand, will arrive at Auckland by the Rakaia, the first boat of the line recently subsidised by tlhe Canadian Government from Montreal to Australasia. It is a coincidence (states the Herald) that the first steamer of the irw line should carry the first appointed Trade Commissioner to the sister Dominion.

-Mr. David Finilayson, who was formerly general manager of the Union Bank of Australasia, and is now chairman of (Kiectcrs in London of the London Bank of Australia, and the Hight Honorable the Knrl of Leitrim (have joined the London Board of the Colonial Mutuar Life Assurance Society, Limited- The local hoard there now consists of the RVJit Honorable the Earl of Ranfurly, Mr. Ernest Baggallay, J.P., and the two gpiit'enwn mentioned. Mr. A. Collingwood, w(ho for tlhe past three yeans has been a member of the Bank of Australasia's Stratford staff, left 071 Friday evening for Hawera, to which branch he has been transferred. Prior to his departure (says the Post) Mr. Collingwood was presented by Mr. W. Massey, on behalf of the local staff, with ia set of shaving appliances as a token of the happy relations which had always existed between the recipient and "his fellow employees. At the meeting of the Egmont Racing Club on Saturday, the president (Mr. Nolan) alluded to the loss sustained by the club by the deatlh of Mr. R. E. McRae. He said that the club had sent a vote of svmpathy to the relatives and a wreatih had also been forwarded. "He has been a good member," said the president. "He took a very active interest in the club. He was a man we could very ill afford to lose." Mr. Nolan's remarks were sympathetically approved.—Star. 4 The Bo v. J. R. Bui'sin hns arrived in Auckland to assist Canon MacMurrav in tho cnthedrnl. Tn IJW2 Mr. Burjin went to Mnshonaland to a?«;st Bishop Knisrht Bri'ce in laying the foundations of the Church's work when'the pioneers first entered that country, after it was brought uwW the British flag. Tn 1890 he went to Haussaland. in British Northern Nigeria. with Bishop Tugwell, and the first nioneer party to Northern Nigeria. Mr. Bursin begins his duties at the cathedral at once.

TV (loath ocurred suddenly at Nelson on Saturday of Mr. John Horrax, of TToind Hill, Karori. Mr. Horrux, who well known as p. traveller for Messrs. Kempthornc, Proper and Co., was fiftv-ninp vonra of atre. He wa« nil eminent authority on collie do?*. end liih service® were always in requisition to judge flu's class at various shows. Ho wis i> life member of fie Wellini<ftoTi Kennel Club. In his yountrrr davs Mr. Hoir'-ax a noted athlete, and held n nnnilier of medals, won in different branches of athletics.