PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 270, 5 April 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. J. G. Chapman is to be farewelled by the Whitelcy Memorial congregation on Thursday evening. A Melbourne cablegram reports that Mr. E. G. Jellicoe has arrived there by the Morea en route for New Zealand. In response to a requisition, Mr. ' Mackay, the present Mayor of Wanganui, has consented to stand for reelection. Mr. Tim O'Connor, of Auckland, an. old Auckland and New Zealand Rugby rep. of the 'Bo's, is on a visit to New, Plymouth. A London cablegram states that Mr. Asquith has conferred a civil pension of £l5O a year on Mr. William Butler Yeates, poet. Mr. T. J. Fleming left Eltham on Monday for Whakatane, where he is beginning the practice of the law on his own account. Major-General Godley, Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, is on an inspection visit through Marlborough, Nelson and the West Coast. An Adelaide cablegram states that the Federal Government has appointed Dr. Basedow chief protector of the aborigines in the Northern Territory. Major-Genernl Broadwood. who has been mi a tour of the Dominion, leaveß Wellington by the Manuka to-day for San Francisco, on his return to Englad. Mr. F. P. Corkill was a passenger for Wellington yesterday morning. Miss Corkill sails by theituahine from Wellington on Thursday for the Old Country. Sergt. Haddrell, Mrs. Haddrell, and Miss Haddrell left by the mail train yesterday morning for Wellington, ano! will flail on Thursday by the Ruahine for England. Mr. J. G. Arthur and Mr. C. S. Rennell, manager and secretary of the New Plymouth Gas Company, are on a visit to Wellington on business connected with the company. Rillenian G. Halliday, 1010 New Zealand rule champion, has been able to make arrangements to go Home as a member of the New Zealand rifle team which leaves for Bisley next month. Captain J. Maxwell, of the steamer Pakcha, has been appointed assistant marine superintendent for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. He is also to be an assistant to Captain E. J. Evans, superintendent for New Zealand. A Sydney cablegram says that Mrs. Roberts, of the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union, who is returning home from the world's convenItion, addressed the local union on her work in Ireland, where she spent scv- , cral months. On Friday the Stratford staff of Mr. Newton King met to bid farewell to Mr. Colin Wilson, stock agent for the firm at Eltham, who has purchased a farm at Wikangarei. Mr. Webster, on behalf of the staff, presented Mr. Wilson with a silver watch.—Post. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, motored through South Taranaki yesterday morning, visiting the Riverdale, Kaponga, Eltham and Mangatoki dairy factories, and other places of interest. Speaking at a luncheon at Eltham, tlie Minister said he had been much impressed by what he had seen in his morning's journey. It was an object lesson of the benefits of closer settlement. If all New Zealand were settled in the same manner there would not be much to fear from an Asiatic invasion.

As there have formerly been few openings for promotion in the detective brunch of the police service, the Minister of Justice created a new rank, that of detective-sergeant, which will be conferred upon all detectives having more than ten years' service, and recommended by their inspectors as efficient. The, detectives coming within the provision* of the new regulation are William Campbell (Greymouth), Peter McMahon (Auckland), John Cooney (Thames), and T. Boddam (New Plymouth). Two members of the service who have nearly reached the ten-year mark are Detectives Mellveney (Aucklandy and J. Cassclls (Wellington).—New Zealand Times. A number of members of the Taranaki Club met at the Club House on Monday afternoon to bid good-bye to Mr. A. D. Gray, one of the original members of the club, who left for Auckland the same night. Mr. J. B. Roy, vice-presi-dent, was in the chair, and proposed the health of Mr. Gray in felicitious terms. Messrs H. Bedford, G. Grey, and C. W. Govett also spoke in appreciative terms of Mr. Gray's qualities as a club man and a citizen, the two last-named particularly referring to him as a bowler. The toast having been heartily honored, Mr. Gray replied briefly, saying that he had enjoyed the twenty-two years ho had lived in New Plymouth, and had made friends whom he was loth to leave, but he was not going very far away, and hoped sometimes to meet them.