PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 162, 18 October 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Reginald Humphries was in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. Wrii. Humphries is making good progress at the local hospital. Mrs. Harry Ward has returned from a twelve months' tour of England and the Continent. Dr. Harrison, sen., who is paying a visit to his son, Dr. G. H. Harrison, of Eltham, was in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. J. B. Reid, 8.A., of the Temuka District High School, has been selected for appointment as secondary assistant in the Hawera school. Dr. Chappie, M.P. for Stirlingshire, Scotland, who has been on a brief visit to New Zealand, has arranged to leave Wellington on his return journey this. week.' Mr. J. K. Bogle, for thirty-four yeaTß stationmaster at Waipukurau, is reti»ing on superannuation. He has received several presentations from the railway staff and townspeople. Writing to Mr. A. L. D. Fraser, of Hawke's Bay, Sir William Russell states that he has leased a country house at, Lewes, in Sussex. He states that he will probably spend the winter in the South of Prance. The Rev. Canon Tupper-Carey, of York' Minister, England, who conducted' missions in New Plymouth and Wanganui, has beqn on a brief visit to Auckland. Yesterday he proceeded to Rotorua for a few days. Lord Islington is expected to arrive at Hastings to-day to attend the Hawke's Bay A. and P. Show, opening on Wednesday. During his stay in Hastings His Excellency will be the guest of Mr. A. H. Russell, president of the and P. Society.—Press wjre. • A Timaru Press Association wire says jthat Miss B. M. Watt, M.A., lady principal of the Girls' High School, has been given twelve months' leave on full pay to enable her to take a sea voyage for the benefit of her health. Miss Mulholland, first assistant, takes charge. A London cable states that Prince Francis of Teck has and travelled to London on Friday, but; then had a relapse, which necessitated his going to a nursing home and undergoing an operation for acute pleurisy. His throat had been operated on before he was taken ill at Balmoral. A later cable' gram states that the Prince's strength is , well maintained. A Brisbane cablegram states that George Armstrong, a New Zealander, a passenger by the steamer Changsha, died aboard the vessel and was buried on Thursday Island. This may refer to Mr. Geo. Armstrong, late proprietor of the Opunake Times, who was on a tout of the world and was expected back in a month or two. He was about 38 years of age, and kis parents reside in CaTterton. His many friends along the coast will join us in hoping that it is not he. The death occurred at Auckland on Monday morning of Mr. Harry Can ham, a resident of that city of years' standing, who had reached his 77th year. The deceased, who was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, came out to New Z«aland in the ship Yarrev, which arrived at Auckland in June, lvSfil. He was. employed for a time at Drury, and sue- ■ cessively was engaged as a coal mer- •, chant, island trader, and produce mer- \ chant in the city, later as stevedore for the Packet Company, whose vessels traded between Auckland, Thames, Gisborne and Napier. General Harrison Gray Otis, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles "Times," of which the 1 office was destroyed by an explosion and lire, against whose life the plot was apparently aimed, was born in Ohio in 1837. He went through the Civil 4Var, rising to the rank of lieutenant tolonel of volunteers, and being mentionail for gallant and meritorious service. Since then he has been prominent in Califomian journalism for 33 years, as editor and manager of the Lbs Angelas "Times." He commanded a brigade in the Phillipine Islands, during the Spanish-American War, and was brevet- , ed major-general of volunteers in March 1899, "for maritoriotts conduct at the Bat'tle of Calcocan." He retired from active service on July 2, 1899, and since then Juts devoted himself to journalism. Dr. Neligan, late Bishop of Auckland, arrived in Wellington on Sunday from the north by the Tongariro, by which steamer he sails for London on Thursday next. In a farewell message to the people of Aucklamd the Bishop said:— "We say good-bye to you and our work here with sincere sorrow. You and the work will ever be remembered in our prayers. As we look back, we are conscious of many failures in many directions. We ask our Heavenly Father to pardon them. He is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, and we know that you, our proved friends, will believe that we have just honestly tried to do our best in the work to which God has called us. During these past five months Mrs. Neligan and I have been greatly strengthened of God through the kindly words of countless friends over the iiotese. The women of the diocese telt me what Mrs. Neligan's influence and wort meant to them, and thaj; they knew she was their friend. The men tell me a thing, over and over again, from all parts of the diocese, and make me further they xegarded me as fkeir friend. More than these two facts no man can well want as cause for thanksgiving. I can never adequately expiess what the clergy have been ai}d always must be to me. This I know: No Bishop has ever had such a loyal band of men behind him. The same is equally truei of the laity. I know they have trusted me as I trusted them. The outcome of such natural trust has been: God has • granted success to aft our joint work in Sis servioe." . hm