PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 202, 5 December 1910, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The Rev. Jo'hn Dawson, general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, is expected in New Plymouth. Nurse Sandford, of Christchurch, is on a visit to her parents, Mr, and Mrs. F. W. Sandford, of New Plymouth. An Adelaide cable states that Sir Jcmkent Colis has completed twenty-one years' service as Speaker of the Assembly, and has not missed a single sitting. A London cable states that Mr. J. Henry, oil expert, will visit New Zealand, the United States and the Far East in the interests of the Colonial Oil Company. Mr. W. J. Chaney, Chief Postmaster at New Plymouth, is promoted to be Chief Postmaster at Napier. He will be succeeded there by Mr. A. P. Dryden, assist-ant-postmaster at Auckland. Miss Erne MacDougall, of Dunedin, is t'he winner of the gold medal given by Lord Islington for competition by New Zealand students in connection with, the musical examinations of Trinity College, London.

A New York cable reports the death in Washington of Emil Daumais, who acted as Times war correspondent in India and South Africa. He was found overcome in the city streets in October, and refused to reveal his identity. He founded the Manitoba* Agricultural College. Ma-. John Barr, of <Bhe staff of the Sydney Bulletin, has been elected president of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists. There were two candidates. Mr. Barr, who was previously on tihe staff of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, worked on both the Wellington Times and the Post, and has remarkable and unusual originality of style. In St. Mary's Church yesterday the announcement "was made that the Rev. Canon Charles Ivens, M.A. Oxon, Vicar of Sowbery Bridge, Wakefield, Honorary Canon of Wakefield Cathedral, and Rural Dean, 'had been nominated as Vicar of St. Mary's. Canon Ivens was ordained Deacon in 1877, and Pries* in the following year. He is 55 years of age. Recently ihe paid a visit to the Dominion in connection -with the General Mission, and will leave for England on the &Wi inst.', Teturaing t« take up his duties about the month of May. The Rey. J. Wilkinson, ithe present curate, will probably have charge of the parish until May. 'A Palmerston North paper records the death of another of those sturdy pioneers, Mrs D. H. Rutherford, who died at iher residence, Feilding, the other day after a long and painfull illness. The deceased lady was a daughter of the late Mr. John Perry, of New Plymouth. She was born in Cornwall and came to New Zealand with her parents an the old ship Cashmere, about 1855 or 1856, and with her parents went through the many vicissitudes of the early settlers of this country. She was married in New Plymouth to the late Mr. D. H. Rutherford, and after a time went to reside on a farm at 'Hawera with her husband, but had to flee from there for a time for safety in consequence of an outbreak of war with the Maoris. On peace being restored they returned to Hawera, and subsequently went to reside near Turakima. In connection with their residence at Hawera it is believed their oldest son John was the first white child to be taken to live in the Hawera district. The late Mrs Rutherford leaves a grownup family of four sons and nine daughters. I