PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 250, 1 March 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Newton has been appointed an inspector of mies at Westport. At the special invitation of the King and Queen, the Kaiser's daughter will accompany her parents to F.nglnnd.

It is understood that Mr. T. R. Rya» has resigned the position of custodian of the North Egmont Mountain House. The King of Tonga, who is nt present on a visit to the Dominion, will probably spend several weeks in Auckland.

The Rev. James Ings, lately of London, but a native of Dunedin, has accepted the pastorate of the Ashburton Baptist Church.

A Press message from Sydney states that the Key. Bromilow has been elected the new president of the Methodist Conference, The death is announced from Christchurch of Mr. F. A. Archer, for thirteen years manager for Messrs. Dalgety and Co. in that city. Mr. Philip Skoglund, accountant of the National Bank, was selected on Monday night, out of eighty applicants, as town clerk of Stratford.

Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby will again he the Government candidate for the Wairarapa seat at the coming election against Mr. Buchanan. Constable Liston, of the New Plymouth police foTce, leaves by this morning's express for the South Island on a month's annual holiday.

Archdeacon Crossley, who has just been elected to the Anglican Bishopric of Auckland, is expected to arrive in New Zealand from Melbourne in about three months' time.

The death occurred at Wellington on Monday night of Miss Ella Collins, eldest daughter of Colonel Collins, from peritonitis. Hiss Collins had many friends in New Plymouth. •Dr. F. W. Ward, editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, accompanied by the Hon. 0. Samuel, M.L.C., made a motor trip down the coast yesterday, a trip which would have taken weeks, said the Visitor, when he was formerly resident here.

Another of Wellington's early settlers passed away on Wednesday evening at Bj»»Bidence, Lancaster-street, Karon, ffWe person of Mr. Wni. Feeney. The late Mr. Feeney was born sixty years ago in County -Mouth, Ireland, and came to New Zealand when quite a young man.

Captain H. W. Platts, of the Union Company's service, author of "Horace Danby," a story of adventures recently published, is shortly to have another book published by Messrs. Whiteombe and Tombs. The name of Captain Platts' latest work is "The Shifter," a nautical romance.

Dr. Agatha, of Manunul, wife of the Rev. J. I. Monfries, Presbyterian Maori missionary, died last Wednesday as the result of peritonitis. The deceased doctor graduated at Otago University, and served as a nurse to the troops in tile South African campaign. She succeeded Dr. Cairns to the charge of the Taumarunui Hospital, and had been practising in Manunui for about twelve months. At a special meeting of the Ashbu»ton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, yesterday, Mr. Hugo Friedlander, chairman, tendered his resignation, which wns accepted with regret. This is the outcome of the case which is pending against Mr. Friedlander on an information laid by Mr. Henry Davis, another member of the 'board, for being interested in the supplying of goods to the board to an amount exceeding £lO in value during one financial year.

At the Christchurch Police Station yesterday afternoon, Sub-Inspector Mc-

Grath, on behalf of the members of the force in Canterbury, presented ex-Inspec-tor Gillies with a Chesterfield suite, Mrs. Gillies with a diamond brooch, and Miss Newsome (Inspector Gillies'niece) with a diamond bracelet. Inspector Kiely, Chief Detective Bishop, Sergeant Bird, Sergeant McLennan, and Constable Koster spoke in appreciation of Mr. Gillies' services, and Mr. Gillies suitably acknowledged the gifts.—Press telegram. The Rev. George \Y. .1. Spence, the new president of the Methodist Conference, is one of the most widely-known ministers of the Church in New Zealand, bis labors having extended over thirty-one* years. He was born at a small town about fourteen miles from Bolfast, and in 187!) was transferred from the Irish Conference to the New Zealand Conference, arriving in Lyttelton in September of that year. Mr. Spence was first appointed as a probationer to Northern Wairoa, and afterwards to Auckland. During his ministry in New Zealand he has had pastoral charge of circuits at Auckland, Napier, Oamaru and Duncdin, and during the past two years he has been stationed at Palmerston North, and is superintendent of that circuit. Mr. B. McCarthy, who for some years has occupied the position of manager Ot Mr. H. Caplen's law business at Hawera, enters as a partner from to-day. Associated with Mr. McCarthy is Mr. R. D. Welsh, who has amalgamated his own practice with those of Mr. Caplen and Mr. McCarthy. The new firm will be carried on under the name of Caplen, Welsh and McCarthy. Offices are being erected opposite the Star office. Pending their completion the business will be carried on in the premises m Princes street, where Mr. Caplen has so long conducted business. The branch office at Manaia will continue as heretofore. The firm of Messrs. Welsh and Eyan has dissolved by effluxion of time. Mr. Ryan will practise on his own account.

"T lmd the pleasure of calling upon my old friend, the Hon. \V. Montgomery, at Little River, and found him, although in his eighty-ninth year, cheerful and hearty," remarked the Prime Minister to the Wellington Times, "The old veteran still takes a kern interest in the public life of the Dominion. When one remembers that it is not so many yearn ago since lie occupied the position of leader of the Liberal Party, the meeting to me was one of especial interest. He assured me that lie had watched with close interest the progress of the Liberal Party, and expressed bis personal pleasure at the satisfactory progress it had made. I was glad to receive hi* kindly and earnest wishes for my personal welfare and for a successful mission in the Old Land."