PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 158, 3 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London wire state's-that General Sir Baden Powell aajls hi! America tomorrow, thence to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. T Mr. W. A. Veitch, M.P.ffor Wangamii, has resigned the president!)- of the Amalgamated Society cjf Railway Servants, because the rules nrovufy that the president must be a mfeiiihef of the railway service. j A cablegram receive/1, by an Australian paper states, thatjtylr. Edgar Stead, of Christchureh, /New Zealand, has won the £SO and £l2O pifton shooting handicaps promoted ■by'ijb-he English Gun Club. j. Mr. C. MacGibbonJwho was for seven years manager for .■•.the Bank of New South Wales at Odjrnaru, and recently returned to New Zealand from a holiday trip to England anil Scotland, has now been appointed manager of the Dannevirke branch of the/ same bank.

A private telegram received in Hawera from Auckland, on Friday last, announced the/'death of. Mr. Thomas Twigg, and the ,news will be received (the Star says) with regret by a large number of old. friends in this district. Mr. Twigg was one of the earliest of the settlers..'.' He was here away back in the seventies, when there was very little European population, and gradually worked his way up contracting. Later on he was farming, then he became also foreman or engineer to the. County Council, and did some very good practical work. He subsequently became interested ;in the milling industry, and' irj company ■with the) Messrs. Quia established the works on Glover road and sawroiMs to supply it. A few years ago hie retired from all business in this district, fand went to reside in Auckland; wntsre his son, Mr. W. R. Twigg, is njbw; in business.

Mr. Richard Allen, a ' well-known Southland settler, died on Tuesday,. ag<p; seventy-five years. He emigrated to/South Australia from London in 1855, asf a young man. For. ten years he was af stock-keeper in the Northern Territory, and then he went to Port Victor »nd became the pioneer of the Riverina's shipping trade, being the first to ship Avool from that locality. From 1883 to /1803, Mr. Allen was (says the Southland [Times) a stock agent at Mount Gam- | bier, and in the latter year he decided J on a change to New Zealand, and made | his home in Invercargill. His activities J first found outlet in connection with the Preservation Inlet mining industry, and lie was .legal manager for the Morning Star and Golden Site Companies .in their palmy days, when there was a heavy cake of gold to collect and bank on the arrival of every steamer from the Inlet. After the halcyon days of mining at Preservation had passed away Mri Allen carried on business as an accountant and public /secretary. In. recent years Mr. Allen co-operated with remarkable sucoess with the Central Unemployment body of London in bringing out to New Zealand lads of good type, and placing them with farmers, thus putting them on the way to do well for themselves. Mr. Allen kept in touch with his boys in their situations, and regularly received letters from them in which fchey constantly expressed gratitude for the assistance they had received from him.