PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 152, 6 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney wire states that Mr. Whitson will act as manager of the Union Comp.my in Australia (luring Mr. Jackson's absence. An Auckland telegram states that Mr. John S. Goodwin, ex-Inspector of Schools for Auckland, who had been acting temporarily as Inspector of Roman Catholic Schools, was found dead in Andrews' Stables, at Otahuhu. In order to have more time for his business between New Plymouth and Opunake, (.Mr. Hugh Baily lias resigned the secretaryship of the White Cliffs ' Dairy Co. at Pukeiiliure, ami -Mr. Reuben Pepperell has been appointed secretary to the company. • An old Wellington resident, Mr. Nun Wilton, died on Tuesday, ageu eightyeight yenrs. Deceased's father arrived' in. New Zealand by the ship Oriental ia 1843. After farming in the Wairaiapa for some time, the late Mr. Wilton entered business as a seedsmand on Lambton quay. He had lived in retirement for many years. Three brothers are ulive—Mir. Job Wilson (Wadestown) and Messrs. Charles and Thomas Wiltou (Masterton). Deceased leaves a large family. The late Dr. Rlomfield,\ of Dunedin, whose death was reported on Monday,, aged forty-seven years, from acute pneumonia, was bom at Hastings, England. His father was at one time a mission-" ary m Jamaica, and his mother, who was well known to Dr. Riley, was a woman of very lofty ideals and of a fine type. Dr. Blonifield received his medical education at the London Hospital, where he scored many very signal successes, winning five scholarships and several prizes (says the Otago' Daily Time). He took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1891, and in the same year he was accorded the degree of M.B. of the London University, besides taking high honors in medicine He took his M.D. degree m 1896. In 1901 Dr. Blomfield, having in the meantime come out to New Zealand, was appointed lecturer on Materia Medica at the University of Otago, and this position he held ever since. He was married to the second dfCughter of the Hon. J. R. Sinclair, and, besides the widow, he leaves a girl of five years of age and a boy of eighteen months. To the many who were acquainted with • him, professionally or otherwise, Dr. Blomfield was known as a man of very high character, modest and unassuming, -despite his undoubted ability.

Mr. Robert Nunez Lyne, FX.S., E.R.G.S., who for the last fourteen years has held the position of Director of Agriculture for the Government of Zanzibar, has been lent by that Government for a period of two' years to> the Government of Portuguese East Africa, for the purpose of reorganising the Department of Agriculture in that dependency, and is now on his way to take up the work at Lorenzo Marquez (writes a London correspondent under date August 2fiL Mr. Lvne attributes his success entirely to Lincoln College School of Agriculture, Canterbury, where he went through the regular course ot lectures and practical farm work under the late Mr. W. E. Ivev, the first director and orgnniser of the college and the college farm. Mr. Lvne, at the age of eighteen, went to New Zealand, and thence to his cousin, Mr. Chudleighs, sheep station at the Chatham: Islands, where he remained four or five years. Returning to New Zealand lie entered n't Lincoln College, and after his course there, came back to England, obtained an estate agency, and after a short time was appointed "agricultural -lecturer at Wellingborough Hall under tlie County Council; thence he was appointed to his present position. Mr. Lyne modestly ascribes to Lincoln College and' the teaching of Mr. Ivcy all the honor of any distinction which has come to him; at the same time he thinks that the board of governors should confer de- , grees, as he considers that it would be an immense advantage in after life for ex-students to hold a distinctive _ degree.