PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 23 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. H. Quilliam has sufficiently recovered from his illness to be able to. resume business.

A Sydney cablegram reports the death of the Rev. Albert Pearce, the veteran South Sea Island missionary.

Mr. Miller, of Hunua, Presbyterian home missionary, is to succeed Mr. Irvine in charge of the Wuitara church district. Mr. W. L. Fitzherbert, who is on a. short visit to New Plymouth, will probably return to Palmerston North tomorrow.

Madame Antonia Dolores is a passenger for New Zealand by the Moeraki which left Sydney yesterday afternoon' —Press cable.

The Premier will deliver a political address at Stratford on Wednesday evening and will in all probability come on to New Plymouth the following day.

Friends will be glad to hear of the satisfactory progress of Mrs. Fisher and Mr. Honnor, who were seriously injured in the motor-car accident at Waitararecently.

Miss A. F. Ironside, M.A., of Lyttelton, but formerly of Auckland, has beeni apjwinted senior mistress at the Palmerston North High School, vice Miss Lynch, resigned.

Dr. Douglas Reid, of Blenheim, who has been acting as locum tenens fo* Dr. Home, left on Saturday for Blenheim, but will sojourn a day or two at Stratford.

Mr. Harry Levien, "father" of the New South Wales Parliament, and Mr. Lilloy, barrister, of Brisbane, son of thelate Sir Charles Lilley, are on a visit to Wellington.

A New York cablegram states that the death has occurred in the hallway of. a New York hotel, from cerebral' hemorrhage, of Paul Morton, ex-Secre-tary of the Navy.

Adjutant and Mrs. Wellington, of the Salvation Army, have completed their term at New Plymouth, and leave onFriday next to take charge of the Newton branch, Auckland.

Mr. T. Humphries, formerly SurveyorGeneral, will be elected president of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors at the annual meeting of the Institute tobe held in Dunedin on the 25th inst.

Mr. Henry, the English petroleum expert, who is visiting New Zealand in theinterests of financial circles at Home, will arrive in New Plymouth this morning by the Rarawa.from Onehunga.

. A Berlin cable states that the tour of the German Crown Prince has been modifled,'owing to the existence of plague in China. He will avoid Manchuria, and' on his return will probably visit South Africa, Hadwaii and Panama.

At the conclusion of the evening service at St. Mary'* Church last evening Mrs. Wells (nee Hiss Josephs), a member of the choir, was presented by Mr. T. Woodard, in the absence of the Rev. 'F. G. Evans, with a framed photograph of the choir, of whian she has been a useful member. The present was in the nature of a wedding Sergeant-Major Thomas Jones died at Timaru.on Monday. He was born •in Wales in 1853, and joined the Army at > 1!) years of age, took part in the *iil« war, including the battle of Ulundi, and was present at the burial of the Prince Imperial. Having attained the rank of color-sergeant, lie returned Home, and became sergeant-instructor to the British Constabulary, and about 1883 was appointed drill instructor to the South Canterbury Volunteers. On Friday evening at the' conclusioa of choir practice at St. Mary's Church, the retiring vicar, the Rov. F. Q. Evans,' was presented on behalf of the choir . with a framed enlargement of a photograph of the choir. Felicitous remarks were made by Messrs. Bannister and Woodard, and by Mr. Evans in his reply, concerning the very cordial relations which had existed between the vicar and the choir in his fourteen years' charge of the paris, and the retiring vicar , warmly thanked the choir—one of the best in New Zealand—for its loyal and excellent service.

The death occurred on Saturday at Christchurch of Alexander Cracroft Wilson, aged seventy years. The late Mr, Wilson was the second son of the late Sir John Cracroft Wilson, C.8., and was for some years connected with the Bank of New Zealand here, then under the management of the late Mr. J. L. Coster. He subsequently entered into partnership with Mr. Henry Sawtell, under the style of Wilson, Sawtell, and Co,, who traded for some tune as general merchants. For a good many years Mr. Wilson held the post of Registrar of Canterbury College, till failing health compelled him to resign. He then retired into private life. For some two or three years Mr. Wilson had been an invalid.—Press Association. A notable classical scholar and authority on general philosophy and Sanskrit has passed away in the person of Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, of Cambridge, who had achieved a world-famous reputation as a great thinker and -writer. He was remarkable for his adherence to the habit* or the .simple life. Ho reached the age. of eighty-six, and was the possessor of one of the finest libraries in Cambridge, and his proud boast was that he had obtained the wherewithal to purchase hit; books with what ho had saved in food. His theory was that a man could live on sixpence a day, and in his own case he became an ocular demonstration of the theory. He was a strict vegetarian, and he achieved a marvellous amount of literary work during his life. It is.always believed tiiat it was hi* studies of the excesses of the Romans, in their days of luxury and licentiousness, that made him a convert to the simple life. He always maintained that the Romans when at the zenith of their grcatnero ami power were, abstemious and moderate in all things, but that even at their worst they were surpassed by rich people of modern times.