PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 70, 13 September 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. and ilrs. Walker and family willreturn. to New Zealand by th» Coaintliic, which sails from London on October 12. ( . . The death occurred yesterday at the age of 80 years of Mrs. Mary Gooder at tho residence of her son-in-law (Mr. Stott) Finnerty road, Xgaere.—Angus. Mr. and Mrs. Bland Holt, well known in theatrical circles, returned to Australia by the Zealaiulia, after an extended tour' through Europe and America. Mr, C., T. Scale, the custodian of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society's hatcheries on the Fnjnkloy road, is an illmate of the local hospital, as the result of an accident. His- many friends in Taranaki will regret to learn that Mr. W. iMj&Kenzie—"Long Mae," of football fame—is laid up with appendicitis at Palmerston North, and will wish his a speedy recovery. Colonel Chaytor will he in New Plymouth in the course of a few days to confer' with the Agricultural Society's executive in connection with the proposal to lease the Society's .proposed new building as a drill hall. The Mr. William Leader who was tho victim of the Are at Carrington road on Monday night, is believed to be identical with tiie Mr. Leader who was manager for the first year >»t the Rahotu dairy factory. An "inquest is to be held today. . ~ ,

Another of our old identities ha£ passed, away in the person of Mr. Thomas Jnch. He arrived in the "first ship," tho William Bryan, in 1841, when he was quite a little chap. When foe grew up he joined the boating service, and afterwards entered the Harbor Board's employment. He remained in the board's service untik few years ago, when on aoccount of indifferent health and advancing years he retired.

Lieutenant-Colonel. H. Q. Ohauvel, tA.D.C. to the Commonwealth GovernorGeneral, lias been appointed to take up the duties of Adjutant-General t>f the Commonwealth Forces, upon, the completion of Colonel Wallack'a term in October. Colonel Wqllaak will be transferred' to another''position, Lieutenant. Colonel Chauvel, who is 'forty-si* years of age, took a commission as lieutenant in the New South Wales Light Howe in 1880. In 1890 lie was appointed to the Queensland permanent staff 'aa captain, lie commanded a brigade of the Commonwealth Horse in South Africa, and wa9 made a lirevet-lieutenant-eolonel after the war. >

Aboard the R.M.S. Orontes, which arrived at Fremantle last weejc, ia> Mr. J. G. Balsillie, who is to take charge of iho Radio-Telegraphic Department of the 'Commonwealth. He is a Qtieenslander, 28 years ol age, and has been engaged l for three years at a salary of £OOO. He left Queensland ten yeans ago in order to study the wireless systems, and underwent a thorough course vyitli the best German professors of science, attending the lectures of such men as Dr. Sejbt nnd Dr. Rosenthal, who were then the leading lights in the radio telegraphic world. Mr. Balsillie was- afterwards sent "11 over the world, to such places as China, Russia, and Siberia, for the purpose . 0 f erecting wireless stations.

A well-known Melbourne physician, William Robert Fox, died at his residence on September 2. twelve mouths ago. after he had packed up to take a prolonged trip abroad, Dr. Fox •broke down in health, and he had been an invalid'ever since. Dr., 'Pox wa» fifty-two years of age, and he had practised for about twenty years in North I' itzroy, and for the last seven years ii) Collins street (says the Argus). At tha tiru'e of the Frafcer shooting case, some years ago,-before the rays were in general use, Dr. Fox attracted some attention in the medical world l»y sending to London a number of skiagraph# showing the position of tl» bullets in Dr-. l'rnser's ■ -head. <> These skiagraphs were reproduced in the Lancet.

The .ranks of Rugby enthusiasts in Taranaki are lessened to-day ]>y tlio death of one of the most p6puliir supporters of our national game, Mr. Alf. •Tury, who died at Waitara early yesterday morning. He had only been jij possession r,f the Club Hotel at Waitara foi a month. Whilst recovering from an illness he was exposed to tlio night air, and contracted pneumonia, to which he succumbed in about a week. The Into -Mr. Jury, who with Mrs. Jury, was one of the most popular licensed" victuallers on the coast, was., keenly interested in all matters appertaining to sport, and for some years Mr. Jury wis on the management committee of tlio Taranaki Rugby Union. He was. hotelKeeping at Okaiinva, Xormnniby and Hn•wera, where he kept the Shamrock and afterwards the Egmont Hotel. He waa a brother of Messrs. W. :H'. and F. .Tiny, o New Plymouth. The interment take* Place this Afternoon at Te Henui Oine-