PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 19 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London message reports the death of Dr. John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury. A Launceston cablegram reports the death of Mr. Murray, local manager ol the Union Steamship Company. Mr. S. Sargeant, for some years Health Inspector at Wangianui, has received notice of to Rotorua. Elsewhere in this issue Mr. J. S. Tosland. of Pihama, announces his candidature for the Egmont scat in the Democratic interests.

At the Borough Council meeting on Thursday night the resignation of the bsr«ugh engineer (Mr. Kendall) having been accepted, the Council decided, on the motion of Councillor Clarke, to place on record its appreciation of the able and valuable services rendered to the Council by the borough engineer during the time he had been in the employ of the Council. In speaking to the motion, Councillor Clarke eulogised the work of the engineer and the careful and painstaking manner in which his duties had been performed. The engineer had resigned his appointment entirely of 'his own accord, and whilst the Council regretted having to accept the resignation, they wished Mr. Kendall every success in his new sphere of labor. Other council-i lors concurred in the motion, which was carried.

At yesterday's meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board, the following resolution was passed, the members standing:—"That the Board place on recoi'd its appreciation of the valuable services rendered by the late Mr. Tisch not only to New Plymouth, of which he was Mayor, but to the whole of the district in the various positions he has from time to time held, and also to express its heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. Tisch in her irreparable loss, and- that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to her." The chairman, Mr. J. B. Connett, in proposing the resolution, said that the late Mr. Tisch was one of New Plymouth's most valued citizens. He had had only one object in view, and that was the advancement not only of New Plymouth, but of Taranaki generally, and he had always stood for progress. Mr. DockriH seconded the motion, endorsing the remarks which Mr. Connett had made.

The death occurred in Hawera on Thursday of an old and respected settler in the person of Mr. James Cowper, who had been ill for some time. In the early days the late Mr. Cowper fought in many of the skirmishes with the Maoris and was one of the band of military settlers who received a block of land from the Government for services rendered. Ho did not take part in the public life of the country, always being of a retired disposition. Deceased leaves a wife and a grown-up family of two sons and four daughters. Three of the daughters are married, and are Mrs. C. F. Baker (Eltham), Mrs. F. Ralcer (Hawera), and Mrs. A. Allen (Alton).— Star.