PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 226, 6 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Melbourne cablegram states that Messrs. Hughes and Batchelor are pa* scngers by the Moeraki for New Zealand.

The ladies of Sydney presented Lady ■Poore with a iiandsome gift of jewellery in view of her early departure for England.

Professor Collie, of the United States, who is on a tour of the colonies, arrived from Sydney by the Warrimoo on Wednesday. Mr. Morgan Carkeek, who has been a surveyor in the Government service for the best part of half a century, it about to retire.

The Hawcra Star says it has the best authority for stating that MY. G. P. Wake will be a candidate for the Egmont seat at the next election.

Mr. F. E. Hardy, of Eltham, who has been an inmate of the New Plymouth hospital for months past, has so far recovered as to be able to leave his bed.

Mr. W. W. Beswick, the retiring chief postmaster of Oamaru, was on Saturday, evening the recipient of a presentation from the combined Post and Telegraph staffs.

The Rev. H. T. Rawnsley, formerly vicar of Waitara, and afterwards in charge of the Waimate Plains parish, has accepted the oh'er of the Patutahi parish, Hawke's Bay.

Four priests, direct from Ireland, via Suez, by Orient steamer, Revs. Fathers Dere, Hartnett, Cronin, and Kinkead, were passengers by the Warrimoo to take up work in New Zealand.

Professor A. W. Bickerton has published a letter in the Times a column in length describing his impact theory apropos of the discovery of a star of the eighth magnitude in the Milky Way. He also read a paper before the British Astronomical Society.

Among the arrivals by the Warrimoo from Sydney on Wednesday was Monsignor Petrelluzzi, editor of the "International Review of Social Science," Rome, who is on a four years' tour of the world studying the social.and economic conditions of the countries visited. He will probably remain in the Dominion about a couple of months.

Three vacancies caused by the nonacceptance of positions as adjutants under the new defence scheme by Captains Roache and Blair and Lieutenant Couper have been filled by the selection of Captain King (Nelson), Lieut. Robinson (Petone), and Lieut. Gibb (Auckland). [Sergt.-Major Lambert (Wellington) and Sergt. Walker (Millerton) have been selected to fill vacancies as non-com-missioned officers.—Press .Association.

Mr. William Henry Churton, one of Auckland's best known accountants and mining agents, passed away at his. residence, Onehunga, on Monday evening. The deceased, who was born and educated in Auckland, was 64 years of age. He was a son of the late Rev. J. F. Churton, one of the earliest settlers in the colony. Born at Auckland in "1846, Mr. W. H. , Churton was educated in his native town. In the Maori war, during 1863—4, Mr. Churton served as a volunteer, and saw active service in 1863.

The Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, the new Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who arrived at Dunedin on Wednesday morning, en route for his diocese, will break his journey in Christehurch this evening. He will be met on arrival by Bishop Grimes and a number of the clergy of Canterbury, with representatives of the laity. An address congratulating his Lordship on his elevation to the episcopate will be presented at the cathedral residence on behalf of the Bishop, clergy and laity of the diocese of Christchurch.

Mr. J. Strauchon, Surveyor-General, and Mr. Humphreys, who formerly held that position, will leave Wellington on January 12 to attend the conference at Hobart of the Federated Surveyors' Boards of Australasia. Among the matters to be discussed is, an invitation from Lord Crewe to representatives ot the surveying'staffs of the' British colonies to a conference in London, to consider the creation of a surveyor's diploma which will be current throughout the Empire. The Australasian conference opens on January 12, and Mr. Strauchon intends visiting Melbourne and Sydney afterwards.

An illuminated address is to be presented to Mr. Chew Chong, of New Plymouth, on Saturday. The text explains itself:—"We the undersigned settlers in the Taranaki district wish to place on record our appreciation of the services which you have rendered to your adopted country. Your having, on your arrival from China in the early sixties* entered into- the export trade of fungus was the means of saving many" a' family from want and penury in the early days of settlement in the district by causing a circulation in our midst of over half a million of foreign money, and this the outcome of legitimate trade and not from loan. When- later you entered the butter business, being almost a pioneer in factory manufacture, you led the way into what has become the mainstay of the district, and helped to develop an export which materially assists in the prosperity of the Dominion. That this industry passed from private into co-operative hands and thereby caused you considerable pecuniary loss is on your account to be deplored, but cannot be traced to a want of business acumen nor to a want of desire to assist your fellow settlers on your part. We wish that we may for many years constantly meet you in our midst, and that you may enjoy the rest to which your years and exertions entitle you." Then follow the signatures of 85 of the prominent men of North Taranaki.