PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 240, 16 February 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Marfcll has been elected per nuuiunl chairman of the' Stratford Hospital Board.

Mr. U. E. Button, science master a* the Technical School, has returned from his holiday spent in Dunedin.

Mr. Newton King has been indisposed for the last two or three days. He was unable to be present at the races yesterday. A London cablegram reports the death of Colonel Eustace Balfour, a brother of Mr. Arthur Balfour, leader of the Opposition.

Freinantle advises that Vicc-Admiral King Hall, the new commander of the Australian squadron, is a passenger by the India.

Mr. S. M. Porritt was yesterday elected the Stratford County Council's representative on the Advisory Committee ot the Stratford Technical School. Mr. \V. K, Jenkins has decided not to stand for the Mayoralty of Waitava for another term. .Mr. Jas. Rattcnlmry is mentioned as a possible aspirant for the lienor.

Mr. C. Penn. clerk of the Stratford County Council, was yesterday granted a fortnight's leave of absence, which he intends to spend in the Wellington and Wairarapa distripfs.. Nurse Turner has resigned from the staff of the New Plymouth Hospital, as from the Ist inst., and Miss Susan Nicoll, of Christchurch, has been appointed to the vacancy, am) will commence duties on March 1.

The oeath is announced at Wanganui of Mr. Arthur J. Durie, youngest son of, Mr. James N. Durie. Deceased, who was a very fine athlete, had been on the stah" of the Hank of New South >wales for the past nine years. Mr. D. Stewart, teacher of the model school attached to the Normal School at lJunedin, was last night appointed assistant inspector and organiser of school work in the Wanganui district, and Mr. W. Martin, first assistant of the Dunedin City School, was appointed visiting science master.

Mr. and Mrs. Ogier, of St. Helliers, Jersey Island, who have been on a tour of the colony during the past few months, the latter part of which has been spent with their son, Mr. W. Ogier, town i-lerk of lnglewood, left yesterday by the mail train for Wellington, on their return journey. Mrs Eliza Crowther, relict of the late Mr Samuel Crowther, of Kaiwarra, died on Sunday, in her. eighty-ninth year. She was a native of Halifax, Yorkshire, and came to the Dominion in 1842 in the ship liurnhani. The deceased had lived in the Wellington district since that date. She leaves seven sons and live daughters, sixty-six grandchildren, and fifty-three great grandchildren. Major-r.eneral Hamley, C.8., who was out in the colonies for 50 years, is, writes Mr. Thos. Craston, of London, wonderfully well with the exception of his lower limbs. He has just celebrated his 90th year, writes quite in a firm form more like the writing of a man of 30, and last Christmas completed a drawing exceptionally well done. 'When in New Zealand he was considered the best shot of his day. On the occasion of the late Duke of' Edinburgh's visit to the colony, His Royal Highness and the major had good sport together. During the first part of the war in New Zealand, Major-lieiieral Hamley, C.B. was the commissariat officer, and came on board H.M.S. Nigel with the Citu Regiment, being conveyed to Taranaki. The crossing of the liar at the Manuka u neeessiated the hatchways being battened down. Mnjor-Ceneral Hamley is now living at I'pper Norwood with his daughter.