PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 100, 18 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The, Uev. .T. A. Kempthorne left for Auckland yesterday to attend Synod. The Rev. Ji.lin Wilkinson loaves by tomorrow's boat oil tlic panic errand. A Sydney cablegram reports the, death of Mr. Norman Selfe, engineer designer •of the first ocean-going steamer built in Australia, and also of the three gunboats used by the New Zealand Government in the Maori war. A London cable states .that .Mr. Bernard Holland's life of the late Duke of Devonshire is reviewed as a notable contribution to history, and the story of a scrupulously honest statesman. There is a remarkable eliapter on the erisis of 1903. Mr. Chamberlain's letters declare that lie would have delayed, perhaps abandoned, his advocacy of Tariff Reform had he known of the Duke's opposition before committing himself.

At St. Mary's Church yesterday afternoon Mr. Charles R. Fairbrother, formerly of Carterton, was married to Miss Nellie 11. Snowball, .second daughter of Mr. Edward Snowball, formerly manager of the New Plymouth Sash and Door Company. Rev. .7. Wilkinson was the officiating minister. After the ceremony there was a family gathering at the residence of the bride's father, Carrington road, and thence tliey travelled by motor-car to Stratford, to connect with the afternoon train for Wanganui, where the honeymoon will be spent. The llawera Star reports the death of Mr. J. S. Young, of the Like road, Hawera. 'Mr. Young came to Xew Zealand from Scotland about ISM, and after being in business for a short time at Manaia, went farming, taking up a native lease near Kapuni. Liter on he moved into Hawera and has resided there for some twelve years. Deceased, who was of a reserved disposition, did not take a prominent part ill public life, but he was at one time' a member of the directorate of the Kaupokonui Dairy Factory. He was a popular and valued elder of the llawera Presbyterian Church. He leaves a wife and six daugh- - ters, two of whom are married. Mrs. Moore Hunter and Mrs. J. Hunter, and two sons, one of whom is studying medicine at Home. Mr. R. Sinclair, of Xew Plymouth, is a cousin of the deceased.