PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 103, 21 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. Carter hopes to arrive back from LondoH about November tl. Dr. Bennett, of Blenheim, and formerly of Sew Plymouth', is on a short visit here. The Rev. John Laird has been invited to become the minister of the Baptist Church, Spreydon, Christclmrch. An Australian paper states that Mr. E. J. Watt, of Hawke's Bay, may take up his permanent residence in Sydney. A Sydney cable reports the deatli of Lady Sutton, wife of the President of the; Legislative Council, after a short illness.

Mr. Will Perry, who has been on a visit to the Old Country, is expected to return to Saw Plymouth about the first week in December.

ffhe Rev. W. B, Woolley, who for some years occupied the pastorate of the local Baptist Church, is spending a holiday here, and is accompanied by Mrs. Woolley. Mr. Alfred Crooke, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the Licensing Committee for the districts of Taumammii and Taranaki, vice Mr. 11. S. Fitzhcrbert, S.M. The latter gentleman is suffering from ill-health. The death is announced in the Hawke's* Bay Herald of Mr. Samuel Breachen, of Elsthorpe, aged 7"2, who arrived in the Dominion (a child in arms) in 1840. His parents settled at the Lower llutt. The deceased, who was a widower, has left a large family of sons and daughters.

A cable message from England was received in Christchurch yesterday announcing the death of Major fi. M. Hutton, a«on of the late Paptain F. W. Hutton, formerly curator of the Canterbury Museum. Major Mutton was educated in Christchurch. He obtained a commission in the Royal engineers, and served in the Boer War, where he gained the. D.S.O'. distinction. His death was the result of an accident. He w,as forty-five years of [ age.