PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 90, 6 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL

'['he Walwmi County Council to-day appointed Mr. J. S. Whiteside, of Opotiki, to the position of county, engineer. A Perth cablegram reports that Mr. Taylor, M.P., the leader of the antiopium party, is a passenger by the Orsova. A London cable states that Dr. Itoytf Carpenter, who resigned the Bishopric of llipon, lias accepted the Cawmry oi' Westminster. Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., who is relieving here during the absence of Mr. H. 8. Fitzherbert, S.M., on sick leave, presided at the court sitting yesterday. A ipress cablegram states that Lord Xorthcote was buried at Upton-on-Tyne- r and simultaneously a memorial service was held at St. Dunstan's-in4he-East. The King, the Duke of Conna-ught, theCommonwealth, and the Australian! States were represented. , Mr. P. Mandar, member of Parliament for Marsden, is seriously H.l, and has been admitted to a private hospital. Some time ago Mr. Marnier had to take a .few days' respite to recover from an attack of the illness which has accounted for the absence of many members this session. He returned to his duties toosoon, and has now suffered a serious relapse. The death occurred at Palmerston yes* terday of .lames Skerman, one of the) pioneers of the district. Mr. SkcrmrtU arrived in New Zealand in tile ship Himalaya in 18/fi, and settled in the Palmerston district, lie was prominently connected with the early history of the dairying industry in the Manawatu, and established the first cheese factory in the district. Mr. Skerman celebrated his golden wedding in 11)02, and his wife who accompanied him from England died in 1905.—Press Association.

Mr. Frank Wilding, a great great great grandson of Captain Cook, was a passenger by the Macedonia, which reached Fremantle last week. He served with the Shackleton expedition, and was one of the quartet of intrepid men who penetrated the Antarctic continent and carried the British flag to within 87, miles of the South Pole. In the course of an interview Sir. Wilding paid he was going again, in charge of either the second or third landing party. He was delighted to bear that Dr.' Mawson wa receiving so much financial snpp* -•* When Sir Ernest Shackleton start' j**his expedition he was somethi'- -<1 °» £:(5,0()0 in debt. He thought " •'? fike son was an ideal man for the Jr. M'awleadcr of the expedition. F position of of pluck and go, and his ' *e had plenty were in his work. neart ami' soul

The death is repor' Jlr. Henry (icorgc *cd from Kuuinra of pioneers of the , Haymes, one of the llr. Haymes, West "Coast Coldnelds. sliiro, Englir who was liorn in Devonwent to ' ,<«!, seventy-eiglit yours agOj He foil' Australia when n young man. to™ jfl-e'cl several gol'd' rushes iii Victor , afterwards coming' tb New Zea- " A-. He landed in Otago, and was .Mo'hg the first lot of men on the. <Siihriefs Gully gold'lielcl. From there '( lie journeyed on foot to ITokitik.i, the >; trrip occupying a fortnight. He met ,( Vith varying success in that part of > the colony as a miner, and then thirty- ;• five years ago went up to Kumara. ' There he remained until liis death. Until ten years ago he engaged in mining pursuits, and later lie managed a gro- , eery business. He Had lived'a-retired' I life' for the past year. The deceased leaves a widow and' a son.