PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 272, 7 April 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Archbishop Kedwood, who attended the consecration of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth (Dr. Clune), has returned to Wellington. Archdeacon P. Walsh and the ltcv. S. Nixon, of Auckland, are proceeding to London by the Kuahino. The Hon. Thos. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture and Tourists, who visited Mokau yesterday, leaves there early this morning with Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., for Te Kuiti. Mr. Hosking, K.C., of Dunedin, became indisposed on Tuesday while conducting a case at the Wellingtou Appeal Court, and was still too unwell the next day to appear in the Court. W. Fogwell and J. Arnst {brother of the champion sculler) arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Moeraki from Sydney. Fogwell, before leaving the New South Wales capital, issued a challenge to row the winner of the PearceKemp race. Mrs. 11. 11. Hughes, of Mt. Eden, Auckland, is spending a few weeks with her son, Mr. W. L. Hughes, schoolmaster at Waiongona. Mrs. Hughes intends paying a short visit to Hastings in connection with Maori mission work prior to returning home by the Main Trunk line. Dr. J. Malcolm Maclaren, of London, an eminent geologist, who had been on a visit to his birthplace, Thames, where he was a State school boy and graduate of the School of Mines, booked on his return journey by the Mjinuka, which has sailed from Wellington ■ for San Francisco via Auckland. At "Christchurch, on Friday last, Mr. Justice Denniston, on the application of Mr. S. G. Raymond, admitted Mr. W. D. Campbell as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr. Campbell was subeditor of the Taranaki Herald some eight or nine years ago, and was a candidate for a southern constituency at the last general elections. A London cablegram reports that Mr. Moberly Bell, managing director 6t the Times, died suddenly in his office. Mr. Moberley Bell was the Times correspondent in Egypt from 1805 to 1890. He , was assistant manager of the Times from 181)0 to 1008, when he became managing director. He is credited with being the author of numerous new developments in connection .with the Times, including the sale of *the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the foundation of the Times Library. Mt. F. Simpson, Commissioner ot Crown Lands for the Taranaki district, retires from the service on the 30th inst., cm the usual three months' leave, under the Superannuation Act. His place at New Plymouth as Commissioner will be filled by Mr. William Armstrong, at present cliief draughtsman in the Dunedin office of the Lands and Survey Department, who assumes his new duties on May 1. Mr. Armstrong has had thirtyfive years' continuous service in the Department, and was formerly in the Lands Office in the Hawke's Bay and Marlborough districts. The position of ehief draughtsman for Otago has vet to be filled. The retiring Commissioner, Mr. Simpson, held a commission in the Second Waikato Company during the Maori disturbances. He adopted the profession of land surveyor in 1863, and joined the Government service in 187.5. He was appointed chief draughtsman at Napier in 1892, and was promoted Commissioner of Crown Land 3 and Chief Surveyor for Taranaki in 1904.—Dominion.