PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 109, 16 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

. Mr. ({. V. Tate, ex-County chairman, is down with pneumonia. Mr. F. W. Ma reliant. C.E., consulting engineer to the New llMymouth Harbor Board, is in town tliis week. Mr. Tom Pollard, of Pollard's Opera Company fame, is "running" a picture show at Grey mouth. Mr. J. M. Murray, of Auckland, accountant for the British and Continental Piano Co., is paying his annual visit to the New Plymouth branch.

Mr. J. 'Excell, who for the pa-»t three years has been a member of the Post and Telegraph stall' in Waitarn, has received notice of his transfer to Tau maranui. He is lieing succeeded by Mr. o'. McDavitt, of Opunake. A London cablegram reports the death of Colonel Alfred Edwards, C.8., Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police. Deceased, who was born in 1863, saw a lot of fighting, and for a tune was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India.

Earl Am'herst died yesterday in England, at the age of 74. He was ProUraTid Master of the English Freemasons and served in the Crimea as a captain of the Coldstream Guards. The first Lord was Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in North America, from 1708 to 1704.

The resignation of the Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Neligan), on the ground of ill-health, has been accepted (says the Herald) by the Primate and the Bishops of New Zealand, and, in accordance with Bishop Neligan'i request, the resignation will take effect as_ from October la. The advice was received on Saturday morning. At the same time, Archdeacon Calder received a letter from the Primate appointing appointing him commissary, and he, in accordance with the procedure, will convene and preside over a meeting of the 'Diocesan Synod to appoint Bishop Neligan's successor. The synod will meet on October 21,

The deatli occurred on Friday of Mr. Thomas Redden, an old resident of Wellington, qged 9o years. He saw military service in the Crimea, and was wounded at Sebastopol. Whilst m the employ of the Cunards, the well-known American. contractors, he was selected by Messrs. John Brogden and Sons, railway contractors, to join their stall in New Zealand, and was engaged in the construction of tlie Hutt and other failway contracts under the Vogel Government. Mr. Redden latet on catered tha employ of Mr. Charles McKirdy, con« tractor for the Rirautaka railway tunnels. Then he joined the City Council staff, and was employed on the Kkrori water supply scheme. Mr. Thomas Redden, of Wellington, is a son of the deceased.—Times.

Another old Wellington resident was laid to rest a few days ago at the advanced age of ninety-three—Mrs. Mary Sims, who left England with her husband and six young children in 1858. They arrived in Lyttelton alter it >ung and stormy voyage of nearly five months in the barque Cameo. Afterwards the family removed to Wellington, which Oiad been the permanent abode of Mm Sims for the last forty-three yeaTS. Of late years the aged colonist was a familiar figure about the streets, for although bent with the weight of her advanced years, her remarkable vitality enabled her to take daily walks up to within a few days before her death. She possessed a very kindly disposition, which endeared her to a large circle of friends. One son and two daughters survive her. The deceased's eldest son, the late Pilot Sims, lost his life, together with two of his crew, off Pencarrow Heads in 1880, whilst in the service of the Wellington Harbour Board. Her husband died four years ago, at the age of ninety. ■A London letter to the Feilding Star a few days ago included the following paragraph : —An "at home" of New Zealand interest was given at 22 Yeoman's Row, Brompton road, on Wednesday (by Mr. Sidney W. White, who has numerous relatives in the Dominion. Mr. White's father, the Rev. John ff. White, of Kimbolton, Feilding, migrated to New Zealand seventeen years ago, and Mr. 0. Temple White, of Feilding, is a brother. Mr. Sidney White also has three uncles in the Taranaki district, so that, although he himself has never visited New Zealand, yet his' family interests are largely centred there. Mr. White <M not accompany his father seventeen i years ago because he wished to study art, and in the interval he has made a name for himself as a very successful painter of portraiture in oils. Some of his portraits have been hung in the (Royal Academy, and among his sitters may be mentioned' Mrs. Hunter-Blair, ■who, of course, is a New Zealander. The immediate reason for the "at home" wa« to show portraits of the Vicounteas Garnock, the Lord and Lady Deramore, Mr. and Mrs. Wickham-Boynton, Mr. A. Seott-Gatty, and others. During the afi ternoon there was a constant stream of I visitors at Mr. White's studio, and the universal opinion was that the likenesses were excellent. Mr. White is anxious to I go to New Zealand, and he may do so I at an early date.