PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Jas. McVeagh, of Eltham, is on a short visit to New Plymouth. The Commissioner of Police is visiting New Plymouth, having arrived from Waitara yesterday. Bishop Verdon (Dunedin) yesterday celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood. Mr. Howe Kennell, of the Woodville' Examiner, is at present visiting his brother in New Plymouth. Senior-Sergeant . Haddrell, who han been for a trip to England, is expected to return to New Plymouth this evening. Mr. .T. IT. Watkinson, son of the liev. James Watkin, one of Xew Zealand's ipioneer Methodist missionaries, is dead. —Sydney press wire. Mr. H. E. Wood, Napier representative for Messrs. Dalgety and Co., is at present on a visit to New Plymouth. He will return by the midday train. Colonel Birkcnshaw, in charge of the North Island province of the Salvation Army, who has been recall*! to Melbourne, leaves Wellington by to-day's Sydney steamer. The death of the Kajah of Nabba, Sir Hira Singh, Malwindar Bahadur, was nounced recently in a Press Association cable message. He was sixty-eight years old, and was- an honorary colonel in the British army, serving in the last Afghan war. The Norfolk Island correspondent •£' a Sydney contemporary states that two more of the old Pitcairn Island identities have passed away—Miriam Christian (Aunt Miriam), 83 years old, and Edward Buffet (Uncle Eppet), 75 years of age. Mr. Blacke, of Waverley, died at the Patea Hospital on Tuesday morning. He had been in indifferent health for some time past, and had resigned the managership of the Bank of Australasia at Waverley, and intended entering business on his own account. A severe cold, upon which pneumonia rapidly supervened, necessitated his removal to the hospital. The many friends of Captain Morrison, of the Napier defence staff, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Napier hospital on Tuesday last, will be glad to hear that he is making good progress towards recovery (writes the Hawke's Bay Herald). Captain Morrison is very well known in Hawera, where he was for a uumber of years connected with the Hawera Mounted Rifles.