PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 5 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. R. f'ock leaves this morning for Dunedin, and will be absent for about a fortnight. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of James Thompson, a well-known studmaster, after a short illness. 'Mr. A. Crookc, who has been acting m relieving magistrate at Wanganui for the ]>ast three months, leaves at the end of the present week for New Plymouth. Mr. Kerr, S.M., who has quite recovered from the amdent which incapacitated him, resumes duty at Wanganui alter Mr. Crooke's departure. Baroness do Stuyler, who suffered from smallpox on the Dutch packet steamer Van LinseJiotcn, died at the quarantine station, Sydney, last week. She fell ill some days before the steamer reached Brisbane, but the health authorities there did not detect the disease. On the arrival of the Van Linschoten at Sydney the case was at once diagnosed a-s 'smallpox, and the steamer and all on board were ordered into quarantine. Baron d« Stuyler, it is understood, possesses a large estate in the Dutch East Indies.

* h ';?\' Gla - V ' P rinci P ll ' l of the Wellington Training College, has been appointed principal'of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne. He commences hia new duties next February. Mr. fira.y was born at Milton, and finished his education at the. Otago University, takinghis M.A. degree in 1897 and B.Sc. degree in 1001. After teaching in primary schools he became vice-principal of the Dunedin Training College. Then he was appointed chief inspector .of schools in the Wanganui district, and came to Wellington as principal of the Training College in that city in 1906.—Press telegram.

The late Mr. Montagu Adams, whoso death was recently announced, was in the New Zealand Police Force for about fifty years in Marlborough. He was sergeant of the police there in the sixties. When the ''rush" to the Wakamaritia i»mko out in 1804 Sergeant Adams was in charge of the mounted «scort conveying the gold from the field to Blenheim once «, week. Members of this escort were Mr. Allen, now living in Haveioek, and Mr. Peter Maling, who went Home as a witness in the Tichborne ease. Deceased was a vigorous disciplinarian—a quality that stood him in good stead in handling the rougher human elements of the district in the early days. For some time he acted as clerk to the local Magistrate's Court and to the Haveioek Town Board, but had lived in retirement for many years. One of the very early New Zealand colonists. Mr. John Hart, died in Christchuroh on Friday. He was born in Devonshire in 1830, and came out to Xew Zealand in 1842. In his young days he was of an adventurous disposition, and on one occasion undertook the long march overland from New Plymouth to Wellington and back through the unsettled native districts. He was a good Maori scholar, however, and had no trouble with the Maoris, although they remonstrated with him for his rashness in going overland at a time when many of the tribes were fighting one another, and were talking of concerted violence against the Europeans. He went to Canterbury in 1(802, settling after a time at Dunsandel. He was one of the first farmers in Canterbury to import a, reaper and binder; this was back in the 'seventies.