PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Mary Hall, the great African traveller, is staying in New Plymouth.

Mr. G. A. Marchant has been reelected chairman of the Stratford County Council. , » A Melbourne cable reports the deaths of Mr. Purvis, leader of the Victorian Bar, and Mr. Graves, formerly Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council.

The Rev. F. G. Evans is confined to his bed through, an accident which occurred while gardening a day or two ago. It, is expected the reverend gentleman will be incapacitated for several weeks. Mr. Cecil Caiman, son of Mr. G. Caiman, of Wanganui, has been appointed engineer to the Occidental Gold Mining Company at Cobar, New South Wale 9. Mr. Colman is but twenty years of age. Mr. Henry Burnett, secretary to the Greymouth Harbor Board, has been appointed, out of about 40 applicants, to the position of secretary to the Auckland Harbor Board. The salary is £450 per annum. An old New Zealander, named William Farquhar Paterson, aged 84, died at the Tumut Hospital, New South Wales, on November 7. Mr. Paterson, a son of the late Rev. Mr. Paterson, of Wellington, came to Wellington when about fifteen years old. At the installation of the Ngamotu Lodge of Freemasons on Thursday night Bio. F. P. Corkill, late Provincial Grand Master, was presented by the Taranaki lodges with a chain of office and breast jewel as a memento of his seven years' work. Mrs. Corkill was also the recipient of a cabinet of table silver in appreciation of her assistance in the social features of Freemasonry. Mr. T. S. Andrews, a prominent American sporting journalist, arrived in Wellington from Sydney by the Marama on Wednesday, and has gone south on a visit to Dunedin. Mr. Andrews had rather an exciting experience when bathing at Coogee (Sydney) last week. He, with others, was sporting in the surf, when the cry of "Sharks'/' was raised. There was immediately a bolt for the beach, but after getting into shallow water Mr. Andrews turned round to see if there was anything in the alarm, when he distinctly saw two huge sharks swimming about in the breakers about thirty yards from the beach, in comparatively shallow water. The old idea that sharks will not venture into broken water was dispelled by the experience.