PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 30 September 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cable reports the death of M>r. .Hartnntt, ex-Sergeant of Arms of tlio Assembly for nearly forty years. The Rev. I). D. Forde Carlisle, who recently resigned his connection with the Primitive Methodist Church, Eltham, has received a cadi from the Berhampore Bhptist Church, Wellington. Mr. Carlisle Ims tlic matter under consideration. A very old settler of Stratford —Mr. R. KirkpatricU -passu! away 011 Wed-' ncsday morning -.omewhat suddenly, at the age of Tl' year*. The late Mr. Rirkpatrick wa> foreman to the old Ngaere Road l'oard, and subsequently to the .Stratford Town Board. Mr. S. C. Owen, I'.ir (lie jiast tight years headmaster of the East Christchurch Public School, and who has been for 1" years connected with the school, was the recipient of presentations from the school committee and teachers, from the boys of the school and from the girls of the school, tin? occasion l>eing his retiring to take wp the position of inspector under the North Canterbury Education Board. Several speakers eulogised Mr. Owen as an educationalist and administrator.—Christchurch wire.

Major "Francis Eastwood Campbell, of Awahuri, whose death is reported, was uf the Campbells of Skaringdon, and a son of Colonel Campbell, who saw much service ami distinguished himself in the Peninsula war (nays the Feilding Star). Major Campbell, when he got his captaincy in the 2&rd Welsh Fvisilicrs, was the youngest to hold that rank, and "was highly estwmed by his commanding officers; so much ho th-at when lie forwarded his resignation to the Horse Guards it was returned to him with a request that he would reconsider his decision. Howevw, lie had decided to come to New Zealand with his father, and arrived with same of the first s<jttl«rf> in Canterbury.