PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 93, 10 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. R. Lning, of the local staff of the Bank of Australasia, loft last-night on transfer to Auckland,

Mr. T. S. Weston, who has been veTj* unwell for some, time past, is gradnally regndnang his health, and yesterday was aMc to attend at his office for a short time. i

An Auckland telegram reports the death of S. St. Lawrence Toner, formerly in the Government service. and 1 latterly prwninent in music circles at Napier.

Mr. George Bollinger, formerly of the, New Plymouth staff of the Bank of New South Wales-, and now of the Cambridge branch, is spending his holiday leave in New Plvmouth.

Mr. If. Brcokmun. manager in Tarannki for Messrs. A. Hatrick & Co., is about to remove from New Plymouth to Waitara, having purchased Mr. W. H. Xosworthy's house and grounds. A Sydney press cablegram states that Mr. Ernest V. Hall was entertained at a farewell banquet by the Journalists' Institute prior to his departure for Auckland, where lie is to take up the position of cable subeditor of the Auckland Herald.

The death is announced, at Balclutha, of the wife of Mr. C. X Macintosh, an ex-Mayor of Tiniaru, now 'business manager for a leading English paper in Buenos Aires (says a Press Association telegram). The deceased came home for the benefit'.of her health. She was a daughter of Mr. John Thompson, one of the oldest surveyors in Canterbury.

Advices by the Tofua announce the death ait Nukualofa of the Right Rev. Dr. Oilier, Roman Catholic Bishop of Tonga, ■ who passed away on Sunday, September 17th. Bishop Oilier was much esteemed by persons of all ..creeds in Tonga, as he was remarkable for a genial and kindly disposition. He was appointed coadjutor bishop in the vicariateapostolie of Central Oceania in 1903, and was consecrated in Sydney by the late Cardinal Mown in April of the following year. On his return front his last visit to Europe Bishop Oilier was a fellow passenger with Archbishop Redwood as far as Svdnev.

The death is reported of Mrs. John Duthie, of Wellington. The deceased lady—Mien Miss M. A. Mercer—and Mr. Duthie were shipmates on the voyage out to New Zealand. TJie.y landed at Auckland from the ship Helvellyn in 18U3, and their wedding took place in the following year. • After leaving Auckland in I8(>(>, Mr. Duthie opened a business -at New' Plymouth, and about two years later transferred his operations to Wanganui, where he remained for some yea re, and succeeded in building up one of the largest and most flourishing hardwire businesses on the coast. Subsequently, in .1879, •he removed with his family to Wellington, where he initiated the business with which die has been actively associated ever since, and which, under 'his able direction, lias become one of the foremost houses of its kind in 'the Dominion. Additional sadness is imparted 'to the death of Sirs. Duthie by the fact that it has occurred during her 'husband's absence from New Zealand. Mr. Duthie, who. with his third son, Edward, has been on a visit to the Old Country, is now on 'his way back to New Zealand. He is due to arrive at Honolulu to-day. Of a family of ten, three predeceased Mrs. Dirtbie,'but seven (one daughter and six sons) are left to mourn the loss of a mother who was greatly and deservedly loved by them all. Major-General Sir John Charles Hoad, whose death is just reported, was the first native born Australian chosen ns the military head of the Commonwealth forces, and was 55 years of age, having been <bom at Goulbourn, New South Wales, in 1830. He worked his wav up from the ranks, and filled staff appointments under some of the best generals in the British Army. He received his commission as lieutenant in 1884, was promoted captain in ISS7, major in 1891, assistant adjutant-general and lieuten-ant-colonel in 1595. and colonel in 1690. He represented the headquarters staff of Victoria at Queen Victoria's. Jubilee celebrations in 1897. In 1899-1900 he served in the South African war, where he was in command of the First Australian Regiment, which he converted into mounted infantry; was officer commanding at Enelin; was present at the actions at Vet river, Zand river, near Johannesberg, and Pretoria and Colesburg; was assistant-adjutant-gene.i'al of the mounted infantry division. He was mentioned in despatches, received the Queen's medal with three clasps, and was made a 0.M.0. Colonel Hoad, as he then was, was chief staff officer for all military arrangements for the reception in Victoria of the Duke of York (King George V.) at the opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament in 1901. He was also Commonwealth military attache with the Japanese army in Manchuria in 1904, and received 'the Order of the Rising Sun from the Mikado. He was chief staff officer on the Australian headquarters stuff during 1902-5, deputy adjutantgeneral on the Board of Military Administration from December, 1905. in.spcctorGeueral (temporarily) from September, 1900, and succeeded Major-General Finn as Inspector-General of the forces on January Ist. 1907. Major-General Hoad wasi knighted, receiving the K.C.M.G. in June of the present year.