PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 2 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. James Stirton, ex-world's cham pion pianist, arrived in New Plymouth last evening. A Sydney cable message states that the rumor regarding the retirement of Earl Dudley, Governor-General, is unfounded. His Excellency said, "This is the first I have heard. I know nothing whatever about it." N Canon Tupper-Carey, M.A. (Oxon), who has been invited to hold a mission in St. Mary's Church, arrived in Wellington on Wednesday by the s.s. L'limaroa, and came on as far as Wanganui, where he is the guest of Archdeacon Jacob. He will arrive in New Plymouth on 'Saturday by the 3.30 train, and take part in the reception service that night at 8 o'clock. Sir George Stuart White, who is reported to be critically ill, is now seventyfive years of age. He served through the Indian War, including the march to Kandahar (in which he won his V.C. in 1879). He saw service also in Egypt, and conducted an expedition to Khob, afterwards becoming Commander-in-Chief in India. In the early stages of the late Boer War, Sir George White commanded the British forces in northern. Natal, and was besieged in Ladysmith, which he gallantly defended till relieved toy General Buller. On September 14 the headmaster of the Central School, Mr. H. Dempsey, will complete twenty-five years of service in that capacity, lie having taken over the control of the jCentral and Courtenay street schools on September 14, ISBS, in succession to the late Mr. Foulis, who met his death through an accMent while riding on the beach near Te Henui. It has heen determined to hol<l a public meeting in the Theatre Royal on Thursday, September 22, when an attempt will be made to evidence in some measure the high esteem in which Mr. Dempsey is held by all classes of the community. The Mayor will preside over the meeting. A suitable address is to be presented as a memento of Mr. Dempsey's connection "with the school.

3Jr. Joe Harris, the lay missioner who has come from England to assist Canon Tiipper-Carey in the preparations for the mission in the Dominion, is a well-known social worker in the Old Country. He has been for seven year»s on the Lowestoft Board of Guardians; and, in addition to his ordinary work as lay-curate in charge of a mission district, he attends seven courts, ami looks after the welfare of prisoners discharged from the district gaols. Mr. Harris is anxious to gain all the information he can while in i New Zealand about our system of charitable aid. Mr. C. M. Lepper, the secretary of the Taranaki Charitable Aid Board, has kindly arranged to show Mr. Harris over the institutions managed by the Board this morning, and to explain how we manage our affairs.