PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 16, 13 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. Alf. lioon, of New Ply. mouth, leave to-day 011 a visit to tke Fiji Islands, where t\ey Intend to stay for six or eight weeks. Mr. T. M. Wilford, Mayor of Welling, ton, is making steady progress towards complete recovery from his recent, operation, and expects to he out of bed early next week.

Mr. and Mrs. C'ock left by the. mail train yesterday for Wellington, en route to Hobart and Sydney, via Bluff. They may extend the trip to embrace the Fijian Islands.

In May last, at Rrompton, England, Mr. C. J. Wray, of Wanganui, formerly of Ilawera, was married to Miss Ada Wray, daughter of the late LieutenantGeneral Edward Wray.

Colortel Chavtor, officer commanding the Wellington district, whs in New Plymouth last night to hold an examination of officers and to confer with the executive of the Agricultural Society with reference to the proposal to erect a combined agricultural and drill hall. Major B. ,T. Stone, who some timfc ago was in charge of the Taranaki Division of the Salvation Army, ha 9 had a nervous breakdown, and has been ordered to rest at New Plymouth for a while. He will not be taking part in any services during his stay. Mrs. Stone is with her husband.

There are now fewer than four New Zealnnders occupying professorial chairs in the Old Country, namely, Professor Rutherford, of Manchester (the distinguished physicist), Professor Gerald Leighton (Pathology, Royal Veterinary College. Edinburgh), Professor Heattie (Patnology, Sheffield), and Professor Herring (Pyhsiology, St. Andrew's I. A Wellington message states that cabled advice has been received of the sudden death at Washington of Mr. Clifford Bramnh, of Wellington, who was on a visit to England and America. Mr. Brama-h was well-known in dog-fancying circles, and acted as judge at dog shows throughout New Zealand. He was (10 years of age, and leaves a widow and one son.

The many friends of Mr, A. D. Robertson, manager of Messrs. Dalgety nnd Co.'s Wanganui branch, learned * with much regret on Tuesday that he. had passed away at Hamilton, where he had gone in the hope of recruiting hit) health, which had been indifferent for some time. The deceased gentlemap. who was only 33 years of age, was much respected by all who knew him.—Wansnnui Chronicle.

Mr. E. Chatterton has been appointed manager of the Gore branch of the Southland Farmers* Co-operative Association, and will commence his new duties on Ist September. Mr. Chatterton has bad many years' experience in the grocery business in New Plymouth, and is very generally respected. He ii a prominent worker in the Kcehabite Order, and will be much missed by the local Tent. He has also been for many years a member of the quarterly board of the Methodist Church, and was for a time circuit steward.

Detective J. J. Cassells, who is being transferred to Napier, has been stationed at Wellington for the last ten veavs. He elfocted the arrest, single-handed, ol the notorious armed burglars Ferris, Sinclair, Hamilton, and Cosgrove, -wlit dynamited safes and broke into warehouses and dwelling-houses a few years ago. Each of these criminals was' sentenced to ton years' hard labor. After the arrest the' detective recovered, several hundred pounds' worth of jewellery stolen bv these men. Detective Cassells brought to book the three garrotters who terrified Wellington some years ago. These men were each sentenced to ten years' hard labor. When Sir Joseph Ward went to England in 1909 Detective Cassells accompanied him, the Prime Minister having been threatened b,v a man who had at one time lived in New Zealand. Detective Cassells joined the police force at Wellington in 1893. He was transferred to Wanganui, then to C hristehureh, and was promoted to the rank of acting-detective in .the.latter place by Commissioner Tanbridge in 189fi. lie was transferred to Wellington in moo. and raised to full detective rank the following year.