PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 262, 15 March 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Liddle Kelly, the well-known author and journalist, is spending a short holiday in this district. He is accompanied by Mrs. Kelly. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Huglison, of llahotu, who have been attending the Methodist Conference at Cliristchurch, returned to New Plymouth yesterday.

Mr. A. MoClure, town clerk of Canipbclltown, was last night appointed town clerk of Ashburton, in succession to thti late H. H. Fooks, There were 42 applicants.—Press telegTam.

The death occurred on Monday at Waimate of Mr. John Manchester, who since 1863 was closely connected with the history and development of that town, of which he was tne first Mayor.

The Timaru Presbytery yesterday sustained a call to the Eev. Frank Jeffreys, of Dunedin, to St. Andrew's, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. J. H. G. Chappie, who has established a Unitarian congregation in Timaru.—Press telegram. Mr. Walter Bevan, a barrister, has been appointed Solicitor-General in New South Wales. The office has been revived in order to relieve Mr. Holman, Attor-ney-General, who is acting as Premier during Mr. McGowcn's absence at the Coronation.—Press cable. Mr. A. L. Dixon, assistant at the town clerk's office for the past five years, has received the appointment as town clerk at Whangarei. This is the second occasion on which assistants trained by the local town clerk, Mr. F. T. Bellringer, have been thus promoted. Mr. E. F. Hemingway, town clerk of Stratford, who recently resigned the position to take up the proprietorship of the Patea County Press, was a visitor to New Plymouth last night. At its last meeting the Stratford Borough Council decided to present Mr. Hemingway with an illuminated address. He is to be tendered a big farewell function by the people of Startford. Mr. W. G. Shoemark, of Kaimiro, is leaving on a trip to England and the Continent by the Orvieto, leaving Sydney on April 11th. During his residence there Mr. Shoemark has taken much interest in local affairs, having been director of the Mangorei Dairy Co for ten years and a member of the school committee for fifteen years, for the last ten of which he has been chairman. Settlers of the district are tendering him a farewell on the 24th inst. Two ox-pupils of the New Plymouth High School, who are making good progress in their studies at Victoria College and Glasgow University respectively, are Master Phil Grey and Jas. Sinclair. Their athletic prowess still remains with them also. Recently, in swimming sports at Wellington, Grey won the Victoria College Championship, 100 yds; the Swifts Club, 220 yds, half-mile, and mile races; and was second in the Blair Cup,, half-mile, from scratch, losing by six feet. Sinclair captained Glasgow University football fifteen in an important match recently, and played a great game, being responsible for a great deal of the scoring.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand was present at a lunch given at the Guildhall this week to welcome the Duke of Connaught back from South Africa (writes the London correspondent of the Wellington Times under date February 3). On Wednesday Sir William Hall-Jones took a party of New Zealanders to Canning Town to see the launch of the Thunderer, the world's largest Dreadnought battleship. Later he attended the dinner of the Institution of Electrical Engineers at the Hotel Ceeil, and next night was present at a dinner given by the Agent-General of Queensland in celebration of the opening of the Torres Straits route to Brisbane. He was also to attend the reception given by Mrs. Asquith and the Marchioness of Lansdowne in connection with the opening of the new Parliament.