PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 189, 19 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

ice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Com-mander-in-Chief of tlie Australasian Squadron, is at present on a trip up the Wangauui river. The Rev. Father McDonnol, who after recuperating in Wellington for the last six months, has just returned to his parish at Meanee and- Tavadale, Hiiwke's Hay, was presented with an illuminated address, accompanied by a purse of sovereigns, hy his parishioners.

A successful debut was made by Miss Ida .Moran, formerly of Wellington, at a concert which she'gave in Sydney last week. .Miss Moran, whose voice is a mezzo-soprano of excellent quality, was enthusiastically greeted by a crowded house, and the newspaper notices of her singing are extremely favourable.

Ihe death is announced, in his seventyfirst year, of Mr. John Edwin Davies, who was for over twentv-five years headmaster of St. Stephen's Native School, Auckland, from which position he retired early in 1904. Among his pupils were Dr. Pomare (native health officer), Rev. 1 1 . Bennett, and other members of the Maori clergy, and the late Hone Heke, M.P.

Mrs. C'olborne-Veel, widow of Mr. J.V. Colborne-Veel, M.A. (who died in 1895, and was for some time editor of the Christchurch Press, and later secretary of the North Canterbury Education Board), died at Christchurch on Wednesday evening. She was a daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Anstey, of Oxford and mother of* Miss Mary Colborne-Veel, a frequent contributor to Australasian, English and other periodicals, and author of "The Fairest of the Angels" and other verses.

Archbishop Redwood, who represented New Zealand at the Eucharistic Congress at Montreal, returned by the Moeraki from Sydney on Wednesday. His 'jat'e, who was the sole representative ot Australia and New Zealand at the congress, visited the chief cities of Canada and the United States after the conference was over. At Ottawa he was the ?uest of the Prime Minister (Sir Wilfrid Laurier). He returned via Queensland., spending ten days with his brother, Mr Vernon Redwood, who is Mayor of Toowoomba.

The funeral of the late Albert Stinson, who was killed in the Opunake motor coach accident on Wednesday, took place .yesterday. The pall-bearers were deceased's fellow employees in the Transport. Co., and a few intimate friends followed directly behind the hearse. In the first carriage were Messrs X. Kin? and M. Fleming, representing the directors of the company. Amongst the many beautiful tributes were those of the employees and directors of the Transport Co. The service at the graveside at Henui Cemetery was conducted by the Rev. F. G. Evans.

Mr. J. Hammond, who, according to a cable message received from London reis to proceed to Australia with two British biplanes, is a son of the late Mr. Joseph Hammond, formerly owner of the Bulls racecourse. Mr. Hammond has resided for some years in Seaford, England. He is a skilled aviator, the first colonial to. hold a certificate a S Pilote Aviateur of Aero Club of France. On his second flight he covered twenty-five miles across country at a height of 2000 feet in his SanchezBesa biplane. He has flown at Rheima. Bethany, Vitry, and in other parts of France.