PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 12 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

•Air. .1. If. Quilliam is, we are sorry .<;■ to Irani, conlinud to his bed. I Air. I'. 0. Corliss, Commissioner of Stamps, was a passenger per s.s. Rarawa last night for Auckland. Air. F. .). Easther lias received definite news of his transfer to the Auckland branch, and leaves on Friday. Air. Arthur Standish has recovered from his recent illness sulliciently to be able to take a little riding exercise. Sir Joseph Ward left Wellington yesterday evening in compuny with His Ex- . cellency the Governor for Invercargill. A London cablegram states that Air. Harcourt has recovered, and has resumed his attendance at the Colonial Office.

Air. Alark Newith, one of New Zealand's oldest settlers, died suddenly at l'oxton on Alonday at the age of eightyfour.

Air. AI. J. Brookes, North island manager of the Dresden Piano Company, and Air. (i. W. Henderson are on a visit to New Plymouth. Air. K. B. Bain, who succeeds Air. L. Osborn as manager of the Taranaki branch of the State Fire Insurance Office, has taken up his new duties.

A Sydney cablegram reports that Lord Chelmsford, Governor of New South Wales, has obtained six months' leave of absence, and will visit England in April. The wife of the Rev. P. A. Copeland. ' Methodist minister of Eltham, passed away suddenly on Tuesday evening. The 9* - remains arc to be taken to Auckland for '•> interment.

Air. J. D. Henry, the petroleum expert, has accepted an invitation to at*, tend the conference of the Australasian Institute of Alining Engiueers at Waihi next month.

A Melbourne cable reports that the newspapers state that the Governor-. General (Lord Dudley) will resign this year. Government House officials neither confirm nor deny the statement. Mr. H. Garland, of Oamaru, who was a member of the Edinburgh Officers' Training Corps, and Captain B. J. L. Harris, of the Nelson Cycle Corps, are the latest to be appointed to the instructional military camp at Taukcrciiikau, says a Wellington telegram. ;

Mr. W. J. Geddis, managing <fiwctor ■ of the Napier Daily Telegraph Company, leaves Auckland By the Manuka on Wed- 1 nesday 011 a nine months' trip to the 1 Old Country. He will be accompanied by his partner in the Auckland Observer, . Mr. W. Blomfield ("Bio").

Plunket Nurse Murray arrived by the mail train from Dunedin on Monday night to take up the duties of Plunket ' Nurse in New Plymouth. She is the i guest of Mr. E. Whittle, Red House Hotel, telephone 3, and her services are now available to anyone requiring her help and advice. Mr. Victor Grayson, who sat as M.P. for Colne Valley, Yorkshire, from 1007 till January, 1910, when lie was defeated, • stood for Kennington, London, last month, but was badly beaten, the poll • < rosulting: Mr. S. Collins (Liberal) 3585, ' Colonel F. A. Lucas (Unionist) 3510, Mr.' V. Grayson (Socialist) 408. -,■> A well-known farmer of Kaiwaiwai (near Fcatherston), died on Wednesday at the age of sixty j'ears. Deceased, who had been ailing for some time, was a son of the late .Mr. .Josiah Tocker, a pioneer settler of the district. He was born at the Lower Uutt, and leaves a widow and family of two sons. A meeting of Wellington citizens decided that Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon.

Dr. Findlaj- should be entertained at a banquet prior to their departure for Lon-

doii, and that Lady Ward and Mrs. Findlay should be entertained at a "social* or an "at home" in the Town Hall. Both functions are to be non-political.—Press telegram. His Excellency the (iovernor, who left ■ Wellington for Invercargill last night, will on Friday go across to Stewart la- ,iy land, returning to Invercargill at night. ; On Saturday morning he will motor to Winton, and in the afternoon he will :i turn tue firsi sod of the Invercargill tramways. Lord Islington will spend Sunday in Invercargill, visit Mataura » next da}', and go on to Dunedin in the evening. A visit will l>e paid to Mount y Cook before His Excellency returns to fj Wellington—Press Association. ,a[ The reported "severe illness" in Lon- ~i don of Mr. Justice Denniston seems to ■ have been rather an exaggeration. It .■' appears that on the day previous to hiq proposed departure from England, Mr. Justice Denniston consulted his medical t, adviser as to the advisability of having * a small operation performed for an old* Vj standing trouble. It was decided to, )| perform the operation, and the extent J; ... its severity may be judged from the "j fact that he loft Enyland twelve days I f after by the Ophir, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday. .Mr. Justice Denniston is (hie to arrive in Wellington on . ! tlie '23 th inst.

Among the recent appointments undfer the new Defence Act is that of Captain Hudson. Prior to his appointment, the Captain was a journalist attached to ■ | t staff of the Otago Daily Times, Dunedin. *< He has seen service in India, and active service iii the Boer war, having gone through' that awful night at Magersfontein, when the brave (ieneral Wauchope and his Highlanders were wiped out of existence. On that occasion, it will be remembered, some ol' the Highlanders

who were shot and hung over the bathed wire fences, so attracted the Boers' lire ,•* that their bodies were like sieves v S«n ; removed, having been bored by scores'*"' bullets. ;

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, the Right Rev. 11. \Y. Cleary, D.D., arrived at the Auckland railway station , at 2.30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, says an . • Auckland Press message. He was met ~.3 by Archbishop Redwood and other dis- -j tinguished clergy from various parts of • J New Zealand, and was welcomed also , -5 by the officers of the Hibernian Society "1 and by a fairly large crowd of his par- i ishioners and the clergy of the diocese. •4 Hi-hop Cleary was escorted to his houtt : 1 by a large following, lie spent the ' early part of the day at the Presbytery, at Otalmhu, suiting the convenience of the reception committee by staying his arrival in Auckland until the afternoon. A Wellington telegram states that the * retirement of Inspector O'Brien, of Dun- '1 edin, and Sub-Inspector (irecn, of Timaru, has been decided upon. Both officers are sixty-one years of age, and 1 both have ber'n in the force since 1874. ... It is understood that, the appointment of a Chief Inspector, as recommended by .■; the Police Commissioner (Mr. H. W. , Bishop, 8.M.), is not considered neces- r i , sarv. A Wellington telegram received Inter states that Inspector O'Brien, interviewed by a Press representative, said he was sixty-one years of age, four years under the retiring limit. He enjoyed the ' ji very best of health, and never felt more '»£" lit for duty than at present. The whole •, matter had come as a surprise to him, yA'| the telegram from the Commissioner be» J| ,ing the first intimation that he had rfr S ccived of his proposed retirement. , rt ! j|