PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 151, 22 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. Pelham, formerly of Pungarehu, and now chairman of the Raglan Town Board, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. W. 11. Hawkins, of Pahiatua, who has been on a hurried visit to the coastal district, returns home by this morning's mail train.

Mr. J. Hore has been notified that he has passed the first section 'of the law professional examination, and Mr. Lan P. Grant that he has passed the second section.

A London cablegram notifies fihat Messrs. H. Dean, li. Barker, H. Wilcox and 0. Barnes, New Zealanders, have been appointed second lieutenants with the Dorset, South Lancashire, Notts and West Kent regiments respectively. Mr. George Henry Daniell, one of Palmerston North's earliest settlers, died at the hospital in that town on Tuesday last. He arrived in Falmerston in 1874, and had resided there ever since, where he followed the occupation of a building contractor for many years. At the West End breaking-up ceremony yesterday afternoon Mr. H. J. Gilbert, on behalf of the West End school cricket team, presented Mr. Mackay with a silver-mounted wallet, as a token of the bays' appreciation of the energy he has displayed as captain of the team. Mr. Mackay suitably responded. Miss OTRorke, who is leaving Prankley school where she has been teaching for the last two years in order to accept an appointment! as assistant at Rahotu, was last night presented 'by the junior pupils and teachers of the school with a slight token of esteem. The presentation, which was made by Mr. Winfield, headmaster, consisted of a silver bucklo and two hat pins, one a mosaic and the other a remarkably beautiful enamel trie.

Mr. E. Pfankueh, who has been connected with the District Lands and Survey Department for the past five years, leaves at the end of the month to take up his duties at Blenheim, where he has been transferred on promotion. During his sojourn here he has been conspicuous in football, cricket, swimming and lawn

tennis circles, and will be sorely missed by his club associates and numerous personal friends, all of whom will wish-him success in his new sphere. Archdeacon Harper, who shortly leaves the Dominion to reside in England, was entertained at a farewell function at Bishopseourt, Christclvurch, yesterday. Bishop Julius, in presenting Archdeacon Harper with a small purse of money from his friends outside Timaru, referred in feeling and appropriate terms to Archdeacon Harper's long services to the church in New Zealand, and to the universal affection and esteem in which he is held. Archdeacon Harper suitably acknowledged.—Press wire. The death is reported by cable from London of Mr. W. Dymock, formerly general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Dymock, who was born in Edinburgh, came to Australia as a boy. He joined the Bank of Australasia in Sydney, and after some years' service with that bank, joined the National Bank of New Zealand, taking charge at Dunedin in 1870. He retired in 1893. For the last fourteen years Mr. Dymoch had been residing in London. He leaves a widow, three daughters, and a son (Mr. E. K. Dymock, accountant, of Wellington).