PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 30 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that Mr. Redmond Barry has been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

It is officially announced that Bishop Gore, of Birmingham, is to be, transferred to Oxford.—Press cable.

Mr. Robert Lee was yesterday reelected chairman of the Wellington Education Board.—Press telegram. The friends of Mr. 11. Russell, sen., of the firm of Messrs. Kussell and Son, will regret that he is in a very critical state of health, and the family has been summoned.

Captain F. G. Kimbeli, of Jlawera, formerly manager of the Bank of Australasia at New Plymouth,.succeeds Captain Wright as Provincial Commissioner of the Boy Scout movement in Taranaki.

Miss Eleanor F. Peyman, formerly of Napier and Wanganui, has been appointed matron of the Sydney Homeopathic Hospital. Mass Peyman was trained in the Napier Hospital, Hawke's Bay, and has been engaged in private nursing in Wanganui for the past two years.

There were two candidates for the position on the Teachers' Superannuation Board rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. T. Hughes, who represented the South Island contributors. The result of the voting was as follows: James Archibald.Valentine, 525; Emile Ulyssc Just, 621. Mr. Valentine is headmaster of the Timaru High School. Mr. Jus* is headmaster of the Lyttelton District Higjh School. Lieutenant-Colonel John Fifc-Cookson, who died on July 14 at Lee Hall, Wark-om-Tyne, aged sixty-seven, -was a New Zealand war medallist. On the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war he was appointed Military Attache to the British Embassy in Constantinople, and accompanied the Turkish armies in the Balikan campaign and subsequently at Gallipoli, .receiving his brevet of major. He described his experiences in a, book. 'With the Balkan Armies." He retired with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Later he took by Ttoyal license, the additional surname and arms of Cookson under the will of Mr. John Cookson, of Whitehill, on succeeding to the Whitehill estate. , He was a J.P. and D.L. for Durham, and a J.P. for Northumberland and North Yorkshire. Of all field sports, especially salmon fishing, he was very fond, and among his publications was ail excellent book on "Tiger Shooting in the Doon." Lieutenant-Colonel FifeCookson was unmarried.