PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 31 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable reports the death of the father of Ruydard Kipling. Mr. R. Persse Creaghe, manager of Tellurides, Ltd., was in New Plymouth yesterday. Count Von Rex, German Minister at Pekin, has been appointed Ambassador at Tokio.

A< press message reports the death of Mr. John M'Whirter, R.A., the wellknown artist.

Tile Duke of Connaught will sail for Canada in September, his appointment being for two years, subject to extension.

The death of Lord Winterstoke, better known as Sir. W. H. Wills, of the wellknown tobacco firm, is reported from London.

Mr. J. C. Davis, one of the directors of the firm of L. D. Nathan and Co., died at Auckland on Saturday, aged Gl years, of heart failure.

Prince Leopold and Dr. M'llroy intend to leave Christchurch on Thursday for the West Coast. They will visit Hokitika and Westport, and then go to Wellington. The Hon. 0. Samuel and Mrs. Samuel returned from Auckland yesterday, the hot weather altering their intention ol going to the Islands and other northern districts.

The death is announced of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward at the age of 06 years. Mrs. Ward began to write for the press at the age of thirteen years, and produced a large number of novels.

The following were amongst the passengers per s.s. Rarawa for Auckland last night:—Messrs W. F. McAllum, C. Arnold Jones, \V. C. Phillips, Mrs. Thomas Bayley, 3en., Mrs. Dryden, ano« Dr. and Mrs. McDowell.

The Hon. R. J. Black, M.L.C. (Sydney), director of the A.M.P. Society and also of the Bank of New South Wales, and Mr. .R. Tecce, general manager and actuary of the A.M.P. Society, arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday night.

In the Otago Daily Times of 27th inst. appears. the name of Mr. G. N. MacDiarmid as having passed in both subjects the medical professional examination of the New Zealand University. Mr. MacDiarmid is a son of Mr. N. K. MacDiarmid, of New Plymouth, and an expupil of the local High School.

Among other recipients of degrees from the Senate of the University is Mr. Percy George Bamford, who'has taken that of Bachelor of Engineering. Mr. Bamford is a son of Mr. George Bamford, of Hawera, and was educated at Hawera public school, Wanganui Collegiate College, and Canterbury College.

A Nelson wire records the death of Mrs. Bond, wife of Mr. W. T. Bond, one of the proprietors of the Colonist, after a long illness, at the age of seventy. Mrs. Bond leaves to mourn their loss her husband and family of two sons and two daughters. The sons are Mr. Percy Bond, of the Colonist, and Mr. J. H. C. Bond, traflic manager for the Union Steam Ship Company, Dunedin.

Mr. Shirley H. Watkin, younger son of the Rev. J. B. and Mrs. Watkin, of the Tonga Free Church, was strickeh down without warning by heart failure (writes the Tonga correspondent of the Auckland Star) when riding from his residence to Mua. The body was brought down to the home of the bereaved parents the following morning and buried by the Rev. H. Page during the afternoon. Mr. Watkin was well liked by everybody, and left a large circle of friends. Though the afternoon was very wet the whole town turned out to the funeral to pay their last respects tu one so esteemed.