PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 232, 6 February 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Fehon, cx-ltailway Commissioner, is dead; aged 77.—Sydney cable. Dr. Maclagan, of Kaponga, is returning shortly to the Old Country. Sir Joseph Ward left Auckland lor Ohaktfhe last night.—Press Association. The Bishop'oT Wellington, Dr. WalMs is now paying a farewell visit to South Taranaki. The death of (Jeneral l'iet Cronje, of Jioer war fame, is announced in a Capetown cable. Mr. W. T. Mansfield, engineer and town clerk of Masterton, has been apointed engineer to the Borough of Wanganui. A Melbourne cable states that Sir Thomas Carmichael, Governor of Victoria, will leave Victoria in May next. According to the last number of "The Layman" the Rev. H. A. Favell, late vicar of Stratford, has now been appointed mission chaplain to the Bishop of Brisbane.

Mr. W. Wilson, who for two years hag been attached to the staff of the Hawera District High School, proceeded to Foxton on Saturday, whither he has been transferred. Sir Joseph Ward told a Rotorua audience that he was now the senior Minister of the Crown in Australasia, and had almost completed his quarter of a century of Parliamentary work. The death is announced in a London cablegram of Birch, the jockey who won the Grand National Steeplechase on Moifaa in 10W. His death wag the outcome of an aceident at Gatrick in 1900. The Hon. Sir Charles Bowen/Speake* of the Legislative Council, will be amongst the New 1 Zealanders who are going to the England for the Coronation. He proposes leaving New Zealand on the Bth inst. Mr. VV. A. Cameron, who for the past three years has been in charge of the Customs House at Patea, is to be transferred to Auckland. He will be succeed" ed by Mr. J. C. Patrick, of the Auckland office. Prior to his leaving New Plymouth for Wellington, Mr. H, Davy was presented by the staff of Messrs. Mackay, Logan, Caldwell and Co., for whom be was district manager, with a set of gold sleeve links. Mr. C. J. Reakcß, M.R.C.V.S., director of the live stock and meat division of the Department of Agriculture, has taken the degree at the Melbourne University of Doctor of Veterinary Science, by examination. Mr. Monckton, of Otakl, has expressed his intention of contesting the Otaki seat in the interest of the Opposition. He is the son of the late Dr. Monckton, of Feilding, and was for some time British Resident at New Guinea.

Mr. Alfred E. Maclndoe, late chief engineer of the Northern Company's steamer Karawa, has been appointed aa inspector of machinery, surveyor of ships, and examiner of marine engineers, land engineers, and engine-drivers. A Calcutta cablegram states that Lord Hardinge welcomed the German Crown Prince. The latter, speaking at a banquet, reciprocated the Viceroy's wishes for the continuance of friendship and goodwill between Great Britain' and Germany.

Mr. S. L. Mark, of the United Insurance Company, Ltd., hag been appointed inspector for the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, Dunedin. Mr. Mark, whose headquarters will be in Dunedin, leaves New Plymouth at the end of the present month. The death occurred at Greymouth on Friday of Mr. William Rae, a wellknown resident of that town. The deceased, who was born in Scotland, went to Victoria in 1852, and was afterwards attracted to New Zealand by the gol~d discovery at Gabriel's Gully. In 1873 he and Dr. Sewell established the Dispatch Foundry Company. A London cablegram reports that (though the information is not official) it is understood that Sir John Fuller has accepted the Governorship of New South Wales. Sir John Fuller was born in 1864. He Is married, and has two sons and three daughters. He was A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India in 1894-5, and has been Liberal member for the Weskbury division of Wiltshire since 1900. Mr. C. Musker, who met with an accident at Uruti about a fortnight ago, is progressing favorably towards recovery. Owing to the fact that our informant obtained particulars at the meeting of the Clifton County Couneil, of which Mr. H. H. Musker was an absentee member, our report stated that he was the victim. We are sorry if we have caused either brother's friendß needless anxiety.

Many people throughout the Dominion will regret to hear of the death of Mr. John Maclennan, of Dunedin, one of the best known of New Zealand's minor poets. His book of poems, "Neptune's Toll," was published some time ago. Mr. Maclennan's verses were always characterised by a cheery spirit of hope and optimism that was very inspiring to those who were awaTc of his great physical sufferings. Much sympathy will be felt for Mrs. Maclennan and her three sons. Captain William Farquhar, a resident of Auckland, died on Thursday. Cap- « tain Farquhar was commodore of the Northern Steamship Company's fleet for thirty years. He was in charge of the Clansman when she picked up fifty or sixty survivors at Houhora from the Elingamite, which was wrecked at the Three Kings in November, 1902. Two years ago Captain Farquhar was appointed Marine Superintendent for the Northern Company, but resigned twelve months ago. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family of seven. The death is reported bv the Ota?" Daily Times of Mr. John Simmons, of Hampden, at the age of 79 years. He was one. of the miners who were allured from Australia in 18G2. He was only moderately successful on the goldfieliM, and afterwards purchased a small fflrm near Hill grove, where ho resided till about nine years ago. He was of a very observant disposition, and was on one occasion appealed to by the Otago Institute to furnish it with some notes on the frost, fish. These notes were regarded by the Institute as setting at rest and clearing up some points which hitJierto were somewhat obscure.