PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 62, 4 September 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At Christchurch on Saturday Dr. Valintine was married to Miss Yickers. The Agcnt-Oncral in London for New South Wales, Mr. T. A, Coghlau, who was recently operated on for appendicitis, has resumed his duties. .Mr. \V. .1. Xapier has definitely decided to again become a candidate for the Waitenmta seat. Mr. Alexander Harris is the Opposition candidate. Mr. W, Angland'is announced as an independent candidate for Timaru. IJe has been a member Of the Harbor Hoard and is now oil the Borough Council. Mr. William I l '. Hurley, M.A., at present 011 the stall' of the Lvtteltun District High School, has been appointed, science master at the Auckland Technical College. Mr. William Cut-field, of Fitzroy, who sustained a fractured leg on Friday, as the result of a trap accident, was, when enquiry was made at the hospital last evening, reported to be progressing favorably. Mr. W. 1). S. Maedonald. M.P., is now making satisfactory progress towards recovery, and it is definitely stated that an operation will not lie necessary. He expects to be back again in the House this week. Mr. Selby Morton, of Wanganui, was married on Thursday at Wnnganui to Miss -May llearne, of St. John's Hill. Mr. Morton is well-known/ as the secretary of the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Society. Umdon Opinion states: Lord Cowdray, belter known as Sir Weetman Pearson, is as pleased as Punch that his son-in-la.w, Lord Denman, is to be GovernorGeneral of Australia; and has signified the same in an agreeable manner, by adding £IO.OOO a year to tho salary allowed by the Commonwealth—doubling: I it, in fact, for Lord D.

The engagement has been announced of Mr. Anthony Wilding, of Chvi«tehurch, the world's cluimpion tennis ]>layer, to Miss Joel, daughter of 31 r. Jack Rarnato Joel, the well-known London financier. It may be that this engagement has brought about Mr. Wilding's decision not to come to New Zealand in December to play in the Davis Cup contest.

The death occurred at Napier on Friday of Mr. Walter Henry Pearson, aged 7(1. Deceased came to Xew Zealand in IS.").'), and two years later joined the Land and Survey Department, Willi which he was connected till 18S4, when he retired on a pension. He was Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor ill Southland in the early days. Mr. H. Okey, M.P., who has been illdisposed through influenza during the past few days, is about once more, and will return to Wellington by Tuesday's until. ,Mr. Okey has had numerous telegrams of enquiry, and on Saturday Mrs. Okey received the following wire: Our party anxious to know how your husband is. Whole party earnestly hope soon be restored to perfect health. (Signed) Seddon, Hall. Frank La wry, Polund, Glover, Taylor and Rangihiroa. The death is reported from Duncdin of Mr. Robert Watt Brown, another of the pioneers of 184 S. Mr. Brown arrived with his' parents in the ship Bcrnicia in December, 1848. They remaincil in Dunedin till the year 1833, when they settled 111 the East Taieri district. The deceased gentleman was very highly esteemed. A native of Paisley (Scotland), he came of a long-lived race, his father, a Waterloo veteran, attaining the age of 02 years, and his mother !)."> years, both being well known in the Taieri district.

Mr. 11. Low. nf the Lnml ami Survey Oilier, Wellington, win) lias been trans,furred to New Plymouth, after thirty years' service in Wellington, was on Friday the recipient from his colleagues of an address and a despatch ease. The Commissioner (Mr. Mackenzie) made the presentation, and referred to the long and faithful service Mr. Low,had given in Wellington, and to the goodwill and esteem in which he was held by his colleagues. At New Plymouth .Mr. Low -will till the position lit" chief draughtsman.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Kiret'ookson. who died on duly 14 at Lee Hall. Wark-on-Tync, aged liT, 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 th'o Turkish armies in the Balkan camjxiign and subsequently at Oallipoli, receiving his brevet of major. He described his experiences in a book, "With the Balkan Armies."' TTe retired with the. rank of lieutenant-colonel. Uiter he took by Royal license the additional .urmime and arms of Oookfon under the will of Mr. .lolin Cookson, of WliitehiH. <lll suceeedinir to the Whitehall estate. He was a •LP. and D.L. for Durham and a d.P. for Northumberland and North Yorkshire. Of all Held sports, especially salmon fishing, he was very fond, and among his publications ivaa an excellentbook 011 "Tiger Shooting in the Doon." Lieutenant-Colonel i<'ife-Coofeon was unmarried.