PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 198, 30 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is announced of Mr. T*oma» Humber, "father" of the English cycle trade, according to a Press Association cable message received yesterday from London.

Mr. Henry Brown, accompanied by Mrs: and Miss Brown, returned to Inglewood by the mail train last night, and were accorded a hearty welcome by a number of friends. It is pleasing to. note that the trip Home has been entirely satisfactory and that both Mr. and Mrs. Brown have returned much, benefited by the voyage. A London cable reports the death of Mr. Kichard Oliver, an ex-Legislative Councillor of New Zealand. He was bom in Penzance, Cornwall, and emigrated to Xew Zealand, where he took part in political iife. Mr. Oliver represented Dunedin City in 1878-81, was Minister of Public Works in the Hall Ministry in 1879-81, and a member of the executive in the Whitaker Government in 1882-83. He was Postmaster-General in the Atkinson Government in 1884, and was called to the Legislative Council in 188 L He had resided in England for some years.

Mr. J. M. E. Garrow, of Dunedin, has accepted the appointment of Professor of English and New Zealand Law at Victoria College, Wellington. Mr. Garrow is a distinguished graduate of Otago University College. He was for many years in the service of the Otago Education. Board, having held positions at the Albany Street and Kaikorai Schools, Dunedin. After a very successful career as a teacher he quitted that profession and; entered business in Dunedirn in partnership with Mr. G. L. Stewart, now secretary of the Wellington Education Board. He subsequently turned his attention to law, and passed, through, the necessary course with distinction.

On landing at Capetown just prior to the commencement of the festivities in. connection with the inauguration of the Union of South Africa, the Hon. Georgw Fowlds, New Zealand's representative, was presented with an address of welcome from the various Trades Union and labor organisations. The address welcomed the recipient "to the Mother City of the Union of South Africa," and proceeded: "This small greeting in no way eoaveys ithe admiration held by the toilers of South Africa for you. We trust that your stay in this country will' be a pleasant one, that good health may attend you, and that you may long be spared to assist the present policy of government adopted by New Zealand."'