PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 156, 30 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. H. Watkin, son of the Rev. James Watkin, one of New Zealand's pioneer Methodist missionaries, is dead. Mr. F. Waldegrave, Under-Secretary for Justice and Commissioner of Police, will be in New Plymouth till early nest week. A London cablegram reports the death of Captain Tortesse, superintendent at Sheerness. He was a son of the late ltev. Mr. Torlesse, of Christchurch. Mr. A. Oldham, formerly manager for Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co., who has been on a visit to New Plymouth during the past few days, returns to Auckland by this morning's mail train. The Ven. Archdeacon Harper left for Dunedin to-day, en route for England, where he will live. A large number of his late .parishioners and others farewelled him at the station.—Timaru wire. Senior-Sergeant Haddrell, accompanied by Mrs. Haddrell and his daughter, returned to New Plymouth last night, after a trip to England. As the sergeant's leave expires on December 31 he will resume his duties on January 1. The movements of Senior-Sergeant Dart, who has been relieving in New Plymouth, are not yet known, but he is expected to be here for at least another week. The many friends in New Zealand of Captain Thomas Malcolm, eldest son of the late Captain James Malcolm (one of the pioneer skippers in the Union Steam Ship Company's service), will hear with regret of his death, which took place recently at Shanghai (China). Mr. Malcolm was (says the Otago Daily Times) well and favorably known as chief officer of the steamers Wakatipu and Herald, and after resigning from the company's service left for China, where he rose rapidly to the post of commander under the flag of the China Navigation Company, being at the time of his death master of the Tamsui, trading between Eastern ports. The climate, however, told its tale upon him, and his death was due to an attack of tuberculosis. The deceased was an old Dunedin boy, and inherited the seafaring life from his late respected father, who in his dav was more intimately known in connection with the ill-fated steamer Penguin, which vessel was under his charge for many years.