PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 64, 6 September 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. Mcßeth, of Egmont Village, underwent a successful operation in a New Plymouth private hospital yesterday. A Sydney cable reports the death of Mr. Kcdleaf Frederick La&setter, head of the great commercial firm of Lassetter and Co. : Mr. Archibald Ashworth, of Alexandra, is announced as a candidate for the Otago Central seat as an Independent.— Press wire. Mr. W. D. Powdrell has been re-elcetcA chairman of the Kaupokonui Dairy Co., and Mr. A. Wileocks chairman of tho Riverdale Co. Mr. It. C. Hughes has ibeen elected president of the New Plymouth Beautifying Association in succession to the late Mr. 0. Tisch. The death is announced at Napier ol Mr. Walter Henry Pearson, one of \ the Dominion's earliest residents, and [ for many years a prominent officer of the I Lands and Survey Department. [ Mr. C. A. Bcnbow, district manngcr of the A.M.P. Society, leaves by mail | train to-day on a short holiday, which will be spent in Wellington. During Mr. Benbow's absence Mr. E. J. Reid, relieving officer, will be in charge at New Plymouth. Cabled'news has been received that i Dr. Kenneth Mckenzie, son of the Hon. 3 T. Mackenzie, obtained a gold medal at j Edinburgh University for his thesis on - the mamm&ry gland, which he wrote as - part of his qualification for the .M.D. s degree. This is one of the highest - honors obtainable for a student at - Edinburgh. B Mr. .Milton Craig, who left here some 5 fifteen years ago for Fiji, has returned 1 to his old haunts. Ho has taken up his D position, as formerly, with Messrs 11. ' Collier and Co. Mr. Craig notices n " marked appearance of prosperity in New " Plymouth. Mr. Craig has, during his " absence, invested in cocoamit lands in '" Fiji, is a "planter." The death is announced of Mr. Krwtor- '■. iek George Henry Stockman, at the adj. viinral age of eighty-two year-. The late Mr. Stockman was the last of the charter members who formed J the Loyal Egmont Lodge, 1.0.0. F. J M.U., having been initiated on April 0 0 ISo". He had been an invalid for many „ ye.irs, tat prior to his illness lie £ took an active interest in his lodge. .. ' ami district. Tlie funeral will leave his p late residence. Lemon street, on Thursday afternoon, and it is hoped that a good attendance of members of the Order will' be present. The announcement of the marriage of Madame Calve to Signar Garpari came to Australia by the last English mail. It was conveyed' in a private letter, which states that the marriage took place in France last .Time. The famous diva was born at Decazeville, near Uveynon, Southern France, in 1803. She made her operatic debut as Marguerite at the Monnaie in Brussels, on Septeuubcr 2fl, 1882, since when her career has been an almost uninterrupted succession of triumphs. Signor Gaspari is quite a young man. not more than twenty-five or twenty-six. He possesses a tenor voice of fine quality. He was the tenor of Calve's concert company during her recent four of the Commonwealth and \i>\v 7ofllnllfl.