PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 108, 15 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

INiurse Maud Hayward, of Hastings, has Ibeen selected from twenty applicants for the position of matron to the Masterton Hospital. iMr. Walter Williams, the well-known brewer, and a pioneer resident of Westport, who in the early days followed goldmining in Otago, died on Saturday. —Press wire.

Mr. William Farquhar, late proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Blenheim, died on Wednesday. He was a native of Morayshire, Scotland, and had been a resident of New Zealand for over twenty years. He was well known in Wellington. The Hon. H. F. Wigram, MjL.C., stated, at the Mayor's luncheon to the Governor in Christchurch that three successive governors of New Zealand had come from the famous school of Harrow on the Hill. They were Lord Ranfurly, Lord Plunket and Lord Islington. The Rev. R. H. St. J. Ho veil, M.A., (youngest eon of the late Dean Hovell, of 'Napier), who for some time past has been curate of the parish of St. James's, Fulham, London, leaves in- October next for South Africa, with the Bishop of Mashonaland, to ta;ke up his duties as Vicar of Gwelo, Rhodesia. Dr. Percy T. Herring, M.D., F.R.C.P., Chandos IFrofessor of Physiology in the Univeristy of St. Andrew's, Edinburgh, arrived in Wellington last week 'by the lonic from London, on a holiday visit to the Dominion. Dr. Herring received his earlier education at Chrtsfc's College, Christchurch ('New Zealand), and Otasro University, thence proceeding to Edinburgh. He was formerly lecturer in histology, and assistant to the Physiology | (Department, University of Edinburgh. He. was the Murchison Memorial scholar in clinical medicine in 1897, and Goodsir Memorial Fellow in anatomy and physiology in 1899. Dr. Herring was president of the Royal Medical Society in 1898-99.