PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 280, 19 April 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. G. W. Dent, of Eltham, who has been spending a day or two in New Plymouth, returns home to-day. •Miss Peggy Fulton, daughter of the Recorder of London, who fell from a balcony in Johannesburg on Friday, has died from her injuries. The Rev. J. W. Burton, the minister recently appointed to the charge of the Whitelcy Memorial Methodist Church, is to be tendered a welcome at the White ley Hill to-night. Mr. W. Burling, the Waikanae cen tenarian, recently had a touch of influenza, but successfully fought it off, and is still able to move about and enjoy his smoke on the balcony of his house.

Mr. E. de C. Clarke has declined the appointment as field geologist to the Geological Survey of West Australia, having no intention of resigning his demonstratorship at Auckland University College. The Rev. J. W. Griffin, who has taken charge of the Methodist Church at Opunake, is a 'keen cricketer. Prior to leaving Dannevirke he was presented with an enlarged photograph of the "A' Dannevirke team, .of which he was a member. A Wellington telegram states that all the standing committees in New Zealand have approved the nomination of the Rev. P. H. Sprott, vicar of St. Paul's, Thorndon, to the bishopric 01 Wellington. His consecration is fixed for June 0. Mr. Henry D. Baker, American ViceConsul for Australia, who is visiting New Zealand with the intention of reporting to the United States Government on the commercial conditions locally, is at present prosecuting his inquiries in Wellington. Mr. Baker is making Wellington his headquarters during his stay in New Zealand, but expects to visit every part of the Dominion. Mr. F. Simpson, Commissioner oi Crown Lands, is at present confined to his house, having been laid up for the past fortnight. At yesterday's meeting of the Land Board, Mr. J. Heslop, in taking the chair, regretted the fact that Mr. Simpson was incapacitated by illhealth from presiding at. the meeting, particularly as it was the last occaison on which he would have done so, owing to his retirement at the. end of April. On adjourning, the members of the Board repaired to the residence of Mr. Simpson, and presented him with a case of pipes and a silver match-box, suitably inscribed. Mr. Heslop, in making the presentation, remarked that although at times, as was the case in every local body, differences of opinion had existed between the members and the chairman of the Board, still the result had been to still further cement their friendship, and lie could assure Mr. Simpson that all Hie members of the Board wished him many years of health and prosperity in which to enjoy his well-earned retirement. Mr. Simpson, in a short speech, thanked the members for their kindly expressions. DELAY IS DANGEROUS. There is no class of ailment that affects the system quicker than bowel complaints, and any delay in treating diarrhoea or colic is dangerous. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the only remedy that is absolutely reliable in cases of this kind, and as some member of the family is always liable to attack at any time it should always be kept in the' house. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers. For Children's Hack in or Couah at nisht, Wood*' Great Peppcrmi' \ Cure, 1/fi, 2/G.