PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 141, 23 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Tlie death is reported from Sydney of Mr. J. A. Gunn, a member of the Legislative Council. Mr. <_'. S. tiould has been appointed county engineer for Kawhia, out of fifteen applicants. Mr. Gould has had considerable experience in the Roads Department, and was recently engineer for the Oliura countv.

The Hon. E. Mitchelaon, of Auckland, has been created a Knight of Grace ot the Ord«r of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. A similar honour has also been conferred upon Sir Ja<mcs Mills, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, of Dunedin. Mr. S. How, who is leaving for Waverley after 14 years' residence in Waitara. was entertained at a smoke concert on Tuesday evening, and presented by the Clifton Druids Lodge with a case of carvers, and by the choir of St. v Patrick's Church with a case of pipes and a silver-mounted walking stick. Dr. W. J. Barclay, of Thames, is one of three doctors selected by the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, from nine candidates, for submission to the Minister for the post of medical superintendent of the Southland Hospital. The others arc Dr. .T. Garfield Crawford (Portsmouth Hospital, England), and Dr. C. 0. Little (Xnsfhy), Mr. A. MoncricfF Finlayson, who left New Zealand in 1908 as exhibition (1851) science scholar in geology, hascompleted his scholarship and gained the degree of Doctor of Science (London). He is now on his way from -London to> Rangoon, to take up an appointment as. petroleum geologist on the Burma oilfields.

The Right Rev. Dr. Maelagan, whose death was reported in the cables on Tuesday, had a notable career. The son of a distinguished officer who served in the Peninsula war, he was born at Edinburgh in 1823, graduated into the armv, served in India, and retired with the rank of lieutenant in 1852. Then hewent through the ordinary University course at Cambridge, where he took deand entered the Church and had a distinguished and hard-working career, becoming Bishop of Lichfield on the death of Dr. Selwyn (so well known, oarticularly in Xew Zealand). Ultimately York, from which he retired a year or more ago, being succeeded, curiously, in that high position by another brilliant young Scotsman, Right Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang.