PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 113, 20 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Henry J. Lepper, an old resident of Wellington, died on Wednesday, aged seventy-six years. A {Melbourne cablegram, reports the death of Mrs. Gordon, wife of Brigadier General Gordon, commandant of the forces of New South Wales. The death is reported of Mr. O. P» Hawtrey, actor. It was Mr. CharlesHawtrey who created the parts of "The Private Secretary" and "Onaflie'sAunt." On Thursday evening the members of the Hawera Infantry Territorials entertained Lieutenant Bishop and made him a presentation on the occasion of his marriage. The Rev. J. B. Brockiehurat, vicar of Whangarei, formerly of New iJlymoutlh and Waitara, has been appointed vicar of St. Matthew's, Hastings, in succession to the Rev. J. Hobbs, resignedThe Harbor Board meeting yesterday passed a resolution regretting the illness of two of the members, Messrs. E. Maxwell and Price, and expressing the hope that they will soon be restored to their usual health. A press wire from Feilding reports tihe death of Mr. John Strawbridge, aged 84, one of the oldest settler* in the Wellington province. He fanned in Wairarapa, and then came to the Feilding district in 1879. He leaves relatives in the Wairarapa and Waikato districts, including three sons, tihree daughters, 54 grandchildren, and 16 great grandchildren. At the Tukapa Football Club's social on Thursday evening Mr. Dawson Webster, the club secretary, was presented with an initialled silver cigarette holder: by Mr. G. Tisch, club president, on behalf of the ladies' committee, wilio were desirous of showing their appreciation of the courtesy and interest displayed by him in the club's affairs generally and in tlie arrangements for the annual social.

Professor T. H. ILadby, Professor of Physics at Victoria College, has, according to a Press Association cable from •Sydney been elected president of section A (physics and mathematics) of theAustralian Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Laby went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from Sydney, as research exhibitioner, and as Joule student of the Royal Society. Hewaa for some time engaged in research, work at the Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge, under Sir J. J. Thomson, whicli ha 3 turned out so many brilliant young men, Professor Rutherford among the number.

Mr. John CDea' has been offered and; (has accepted a position as a dairy instructor, and will in future be attached to the staff of the head of the dairy division (iMr. ,D. Cuddie), reports the Dominion. Mr. O'Dea has been managen of .the Pihamia factory for someyeare, and has made a splendid reputation for himself as a butter-maker. For several, years his butter was figuring in leadingpositions in the principal show competitions all over New Zealand, and at tihe recent "Waikato andi Hawera Winter shows he established the remarkable record of winning all the butter prizes at 'both fixtures. Pasteurisation, be toldi the Hawera Star, was the secret of hissuccess. {Nothing definite could be ascertained as to where the headquarters of the new instructor would be. Some time ago Stratford was mentioned as the place, but there is jgood reason for believing that Mr. lO'Dea will' Reside elsewhere. >

Mr. E..W. Fache, brother of Mr. G. CFaohe, of the Old Age Pensions Department, after an absence from New Zealand of three years in Terra del FuegO' andi Dutch Guiana, where he was engaged in gold dredging returned by the lonic. He went out to Terra del Fuego under engagement to the 'Rio Perez Gold Dredging Company,, of the Argentine, which was somewhat of a disappointment. On arrival in London, homeward! hound, he accepted an engagement with the Brahmini Gold 'Dredging Syndicate, to control one of their dredges in the interior of Dutch Guiana, the trip being made by way of the Barbadoes. There he found the j climate very trying, and was laid low with fever on two occasions. Acting on medical adivice, and only in a partially convalescent state, ihe left, via New York, for London. There he was obliged to enter a private 'hospital, and: it was only after many months treatment that ihe was able to leave for (New Zealand. " I've had enough of Dutch Guiana to do me for a lifetime," he says.—Times.