PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 188, 18 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. Dan O'Brien have been on a visit to New Plymouth. Dr. Savage, of Auckland, has been on a brief visit to New Plymouth. Constable Scott, of Napier, has been appointed police officer in charge of the Chatham Islands. Mr. Richard Arnst, the world's champion sculler, will arrive in Wellington to-day by the Ruapehu from Capetown. Mr. Charles Petterson, of Dunedin, has been appointed manager of the Waimate Gas Works, in place of Mr. G. Marriott, who goes to Eltham. At a meeting of the , Dunedin City Council last night the Town R. W. Richards, sent in his resignation, to take effect from March 1, 1911. The resignation was accepted with regret. A Sydney cable states that Mr. Wragge proposes to stay in New Zealand for a year, lecturing and investigating the reported prevalence of radiumbearing pitchblende in certain parts of the Dominion.

The Waimate Witness states that Mr. W. T. Wells, of Manaia, who is a member of the New Plymouth Harbor Board, intends in future to reside during the greater part of the year in Auckland, leaving his farms under the management of his sons.

Major Jackson Keddell, ex-stipendiary magistrate, died suddenly at Oamaru yesterday morning, aged 79. Deceased was coroner on the goldfields during the Maori war. He served with the military forces in the Waikato, and was subsequently appointed stipendiary magistrate at Thames. He was a Pa9t Master of Masons.

An interesting wedding took place at St. Mary's Cathedral, Parnell, on Tuesday afternoon (says the New Zealand Herald), when Miss Lilian Devore, daughter of Mr. A. E. Devore, was married to Mr. Reginald Harold George, of New Plymouth. There were four bridesmaid* —Misses Kate Devore, Blanche Devore, Nellie Douglas and Winnie George. Mr. J. C. Nicholson, of New Plymouth, was best man. The ceremony was performed by the Yen. Archdeacon Calder, assisted by Canon Mac Murray. Dr. Thomas presided at the organ. A Wellington press message states that Mr. George Gray, late accountant of the Post and Telegraph Department, and the controller of the Money Order and Savings Banks, died at his residence, Wellington, yesterday, after a very long illness. Deceased came to New Zealand when six years old, v in 1853, landing at New Plymouth with his - father, the late Wm. Gray, Esq., sen., for many years Inspector of Post Offices, and at his death secretary to the General Post Office. Mr. George Gray was born at Aberdeen, and was educated in Taranaki, and later at Nelson. He joined the telegraph service in 1867, and was subsequently promoted to be senior clerk in the accountants' branch of the combined Post and Telegraph' Department. Upon the appointment, in 1891, of Mr. J. K. Warburton as Public Trustee, Mr. Gray was appointed $o the position which he vacated when retiring on pension in March, 1907.