PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 69, 12 September 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. Winalade, the well-known Opaki rille shot, is taking tip life frttidencc in New Plymouth.

Tile lie v. 11. {). 'J'ownsond llairbv, late curate of fit. Mary's New Plymouth, was married at' Auckland Istht week to Miss Keiwterdmp, of Taumaninui.

The Mayor of Kllhari) (Mr. (!. P. Wake) is in such an imldft'erenit state of health that, under medical advice, he is counpellotl to go to Napier to recuperate.

A Melbourne cablegram report* tile death of Mr. \Y. JI. Stephen, only surviving son of the l:itc .Sidney Stephen, acting-Chief Justice of New Zealand from 1835 to ISSB.

A Wellington message states that lather died thcire on Saturday everting, aged (i 7 yews. He labored at different times'at Wellington, Blenheim, Jteefton and Napier'. On Thursday, the 14th inst., at 7 p.m., the induction- of the ftev. T, 11. Jioscivcare will be held in St. Andrew's Pre.«hytcirian Church, New Plymouth, to 'be followed »t 8 p.m. by a welcome so» cial in tho school hall.

Mr. W. Armstrong, Commissioner ol Ciowni Lands in lamnaki, returned <vn Saturday from a fortnight's tour of the eastern portion of the Tarnnaki U-md Board's district, from Te Kuiti to Pipiriki, and also to JJouglas. A \ cry popular function, and a very pretty and successful'' one as -well, is the Whiteley 'Flower Show. - It is to be held this year in the Whiteley Hall on Ihur-da.y «f this week, am! entries close to-night at Mr. C. Carter's shop.

Miss Mills., youngest daughter of fiii .Tames Mills, -managing director of the Union Steamship Company, died at n sanatorium near Christchunji on Friday night after a lengthy illness, Kir James and Lady Mills are at present in London!

Constable Liston, who has been transferred from New Plymouth to the charge of the Te Wera Police Station, left by yesterday morning's express. On Saturday evening lie was presented' by his comrades here with a pair of silyerilnicked military brushes and silver Cigarette case, the presentation being made by Detective-Sergeant Boddam.

Oil the eve of his departure on a holiday trip to New Zealand, prior to taking .charge in Kydne.v, Mr. David Mills wias made the recipient of a presentation from a large dumber of friends and comrades connected with the Australasian Overseas and Inter-State Shipping Trades. He was subsequently entertained to dinner at the Australian Club. —Melbourne press cablegram. At the Borough Couneil meeting last night the Mayor tendered a welcome to Mr. H. ,T. Gilbert, who took his seat as a* councillor for the AVe.st Ward, referring to the (fact that >('r. (Gilbert's previous experience on the Council would stand him in good "stead. Cr. ■Gilbert acknowledged the welcome, and congratulated Mr. liiowne on his election to the Mayoral chair, and the same time regretting the -ad event —the death ol Mr. Tisch—'which had made the appointment necessary. He paid a tribute to the former Mayor's memory and to th<* work he had done in the interests ot the borough. , He was pleased to bp once more on the; Council, he said, and went on to remark that Cr. Mamrix a.iwl himself were the only councillors who had not been nomiii'ited by the so-called Progressive Association, but whilst this was so hi* hoped that any proposals they might bring forward for the welfare ol the trough would receive the hearty support of the Council.