PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 146, 29 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Taranaki Education Board has nominated Mr. Gilbert Carson, of Wanganui, for the position of member of the Committee of Advice of the Wellington Training College. News has I>een received that although Dr. Henry, the mi<*ioner. U much better, he luus had to cancel his Cambridge mission and go on to to llotorua from Hamilton for a few days' recuperation. A Melbourne cable states that London advices announce the death of Captain Trotter, of the Tyser Line, who was for many years connected with the Australian and New Zealand trade. Colonel Davies, C.8., has received the warm congratulations of the Duke oi Connaught on his appointment to command a brigade at AJdersliot. The King also has expressed his pleasure at the step. At Waitara on Monday Sergeant Haddrcij, in charge of the New Plymouth Police Station, was married to Miss Johnston, daughter of Mr. John Johnston. The Rev. Harrison performed the ceremony. 'Mr. Herbert Haycock, for years the resident manager of tha W'haknrewa institution at Motueka, died on Monday. His management of the children (says the Colonist) was lwustxl on lines which, won him the respect and affection of the youngsters. Mr. C. Ilausnuui tea been appointed works manager and chief engineer at .the Wellington Meat Freezing Company's establishment at Waingawa, near Masterton. Mr. Hausman had been fourteen years ehief refrigerating engineer at the Wellington Meat Export Co.'s works. An old settler in tho person of Mr. Francis Farrell o'Riley died on Tuesday at Whitenmn's Valley (Hutt), at the age of 91 years. lie was born at County Caven, Ireland, and was married when only 10 yearn of age. Mr. O'Riley has left a grown-up family of six daughters and two sons. A Wanganui (vire states that a large gathering of the >Pot»t and Telegraph officers, representing all grades of the services, entertained Mr. D. MSiller, chief postmaster, who haa been promoted to tihe charge of the Wellington office. Mr. Miller was presented with a gold chronometer and Mm. Miller with a gold muff chain. The Rev. C. E. Porter, who has been relieving for the Presbyterian Church at Manaia, is visiting Wellington, He will subsequently take up work in the Auckland district. The rev. gentleman last week met with a painful accident through falling off a bicycle. He received some nasty abrasions about the body, and was unable to take services on Sunday. The Mangawoka Settler states that Mr. W. A. Bowater, who contested the Taumarunud seat art last election as an Oppositionist, will again come forward. The paper adds that it has reliable information that Mr. Bowater will oppose, though reluctantly, Mr. Boddie, the Te Kuiti candidate, if the boundaries are not altered and Te Kuiti' remains in the electorate. He is, however, in hopes, and believes that tihere will be a change in boundaries before the next election. In the event of a readjustment, the probability is that Waimarina will be the centre of the electorate.

A Dunedin telegram states that Rev. Dr. Ni9bet, pastor of the First Church, who returned to Dunedin last Saturday after an extended visit to Australia, owing to ill-iiealth, died> somewhat-sud-denly last night. He was going about as usual during tihe day, and, as a matter of fact, officiated at a wedding ceremony in the afternoon, ibut at about 7 p.m. be took a sudden seizure and passed away within « few hours. Death wa» due to a variety of caiises, the Immediate one being hemorrhage of tihe brain. Dr. Nisibet obtained leave of absence in July, 1909, on account of ill-health, and after spending some time at Picton he went to Australia. He was 62 years of age, and is survived by a widow, two sons and a daughter. 'Mr. A. J. Willis, ex-clerk of the Executive Council, the oldest Civil Servant in New Zealand, died yesterday,- aged* 82 (says a Wellington Press wire). Deceased was Iborn in Capo Colony and entered the Tasoianian Civil Service when 12 years old and joined the New Zealand service in 1800 as secretary of the Otago Provincial Council. He woe secretary to the Cabinet and tuerk of the Executive Council from the abolition of the province till he retired laist year. Deceased was twice married. He leaves a widow, one son (Mr. W. Willis, of Gore) and one daughter (Mrs. Hill Jacks, of Dunedin), by his first wife, and the following % his second Mrs. E. Geacb (Sydney), Mrs. Will Lawson, Mrs. D. Steel (Johnsonville), Mm. A.* Hubbard (iMasterton) ,Mrs. Mowatt (Blenheim) and tihe Misses Willis (2) and Ave sons: Mr* <sep. 'lVillia (secretary to the Wellington Charitaible Aid Board), Mr. B. Willis 1 (Wairarapa Farmers 3 Co-op.), Mr. Cecil Willis (fourth engineer s.s. Maori), and Messrs F. and R. Willis (Blenheim). News has been received from England of the death of the Rev. J. E. Newell, one of the best known and most highly esteemed missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the South At the time of hi» death' Mr. Newell was on a visit to Germany, where he contracted pneumonia, and died after a very brief illness, the end being so sudden that his wife and family, who wet® in Enigland, were unable to reach him before his death. The object of Mr. Newell's visit to Germany was to confer with the Rhenish Missionary Society with regard to ■their request for Samoan pastors of the London Missionary Society to take up missionary work in German New Guinea. Mr. Newell was appointed by the London Missionary Society to the island of Savail, in Samoa, in 1880, and had therefore completed thirty yeans of active missionary service. He had a profound knowledge of .the Samoan language, and in addition to editing tile "Sulu," a monthly magazine in the native language, was 'active in general translation work for the benefit, not of ihia students, but of the native community generally. He waa in bis fifty-ninth year, and has left a widow and five children.