PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph Ward returned from the south to Wellington yesterday. Mr. James Lett, an old Wanganui resident, died on Friday, aged 73 years. Sir Allen Taylor has been re-elected as Lord Mayor of Sydney for the sixth time. —Sydney press cable. A Christchurch wire stales that on Saturday His Excellency the Governor laid the foundation stone of the Seamen's Institute at Lyttdton, which is being erected by the Lyttelton branch of the British and Foreign Sailors Society. Mr. James Moore, for many years connected with the Missions to Seamen in Wellington, who went Home at the end of May last on leave of absence on account of his health, has, on the advice ol Ins doctor, resigned his charge of the work in Wellington, and will not return to New Zealand. Mr E. G. H. Mainwaring, eldest son: w n M? lnwirin g> of Whitmere Hall, Staffordshire, England, is dead. He ]< T d i he „ Public Works ' Department under Mr. C. Y. O'Connor, and four or five years ago retired from the Cml bervice on a pension, .being then a land officer in the Railway Department.— Christchurch press wire. The chairman of the Taranaki Oil ana freehold Company has received a. very interesting letter from Mr. Balloch, the company's late manager, who is now serving the Venezuelan Oilfields Exploitation Co., Ltd., in the capacity of district superintendent, in charge of a number of wells. He finds the heat, very trying, and' 'has recently been laid' up for three weeks with malarial fever.