PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 19 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. If. llempton, collector of customs, is on holiday leave, and Mr. W. Rose is acting temporarily. Mr. Lloyd-George, whose illness was announced a few days ago, is progressing favorably.—Press cablegram.

Captain Hennah, inspector of Are appliances at Government institutions, arrived by the mail train last night. Dr. Milroy, locum tenens for Dr. Walker, who is about to visit England, arrived by mail train last evening.

The Hon. Oliver Samuel and Mrs. Samuel leave by the mail train this morning on a trip to the north of Auckland.

A Sydney message states that Prince Leopold of Battenberg is a passenger by the victoria, which left that p»rt for New Zealand yesterday. Mr. D. Herlihy has resigned his position as chairman of directors of the Moa Co-operative Dairy Company. Mr. Jones lias been elected in his stead.

Mr. F. J. HeatU>y, who has been appointed organise/ in connection with technical education throughout the province, is taking up his residence in New Plymouth.

Baron and Baroness de Bethune, of Bet gium, were passengers by the Maheno, which arrived in Auckland from Sydney on Sunday. They intend touring New Zealand.

A Sydney cable advises that the Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister of Education, will be a passenger, accompanied by his two daughters, for New Zealand by the Mantua on Monday next. Captain Dorling, of the Northern Company's steamer Claymore, arrived in New Plymouth yesterday morning on holiday leave. Captain Roberts is now in command of the Claymore.

Mr. Whitehead, for some time past secretary of the Inglewood Tradesmen's As j sociation, is leaving Inglewood. On Tuesday evening he was presented by the members of the association with a diningroom clock.

■Master Wylie, son of Mr. Wylie, headmaster of the Waitara 'School, was the only Taranaki boy to pass the matriculation and medical preliminary examinations, the results of which" we published yesterday. Mr. John Cudby, J.P., of Lower Hutt, has seen 82 summers, and will have resided sixty-«ight years in the Lower Hutt on the 30th inst; and is still halo and hearty. Mr. Cudby (says the local paper) is possibly the oldest Justice of the Peace in New Zealand.

At yesterday's meeting Cr. Porritt resigned his seat as the Stratford County Council's representative on the Hospital Board. The resignation was accepted with regret, councillors 'being eulogistic of the work done on the Board by Cr. Porritt. Cr. Christoffcl was elected to fill the vacancy. Dr. G. P. Clark, ex-member for Caith-ness-shire in the House of Commons, arrived in Auckland by the Maheno from Sydney on. Sunday, on his fourth visit to New Zealand, having hut been here eight years ago. He is accompanied by his wife, and, acting under medical advice received in London, proceeds to Rotorua in the course of a few days for the purpose of taking the baths there. The Archbishop of Armagh recently resigned his position, and thus removed from th« ranks of the English Church clergy one of its most prdminent figures. He was the senior Bishop of the Church of England, aud the honor of being the senior Bishop of the Anglican communion has descended from him to the Primato of New Zealand, Dr. Neville, who has been Bishop of Dunedin since 1871. '

Messrs. T. Ronayne (General Manager Oi Railways), A. *L. Beattio- (Chief Mechanical Engineer), .1. E. Armstrong (District Traffic Manager, of Wanganui), 'P. T. Jones (District Engineer), J. Burnett (Chief Engineer), and W. A. Wood (District Traflic Inspector), nrrived in New Plymouth last night on their annual inspection visit. They will proceed to Moturba this morning, and will pay a visit to the Taranaki Petroleum Company s works, afterwards leaving by special train for Waitara. The Anglican Bishop of Manchester writes to the Church Times as follows:—My attention has been cnlled to the notice which appeared in your columns of the appointment of Bishop Neligan as Diocesan Missioncr in this diocese. The notice should have been subject to this qualification that "Bishop Neligan, while desirous of accepting the post, could not definitely accept it until he had consulted his medical advisers in London, hnving been compelled on medical orders to resign from the BisJiopric of Auckland. The appointment, therefore, cannot be complete until the Bishop of Manchester has received the opinion of Bishop Neligan's medical advisers."