PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 100, 5 January 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Admiral Evans, of the United' States '■ Navy, is dead from acute indigestion.— ' Washington cable. A Melbourne cablegram reports the' ; death of Mr. Lewis Hiddle, Commissioner of Savings Banks. The death of Mr. Con O'Donoghue •■ took place at Hastings on Tuesday. The deceased, who was licensee of the' Albert Hotel at Hastings, was seized with a - paralytic stroke, a fortnight ago, '' from which he never recovered. Sir. O'Donoghue owned and raced several horses. Two old residents of Timaru passed .' " away yesterday, Frances Sarah, relict of -~ E. P. Sealy, provincial surveyor and al- ."? pine explorer in the earlv days, aged 30; and Mary,, widow'of Richard Tnrnbu.lL for many years M.H.R. for Timaru j aged 83. Mrs. Turnbull had been an invalid for a long time.—Timaru press wire. Mr. James B. Turner. M.L.C., Mayor of Suva, arrived vin Auckland by the Ta- : June from Fiji on Tuesday morning and is. staying there for a few days before proceeding on an extended tour to Eu- ' rope. atr. Turner, who is a member of ' the Legislative Council of Fiji, says that the political atmosphere of the island dependency is at the present time compara- ■ tivfily clear, while matters generally are '• ■ pretty prosperous with both native and Europeans.

Mr. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of ' Chas. Dickens, the novelist, died in New York on Wednesday. He was Seized "' with an acute attack of indigestion during a lecture, tour. He was taken ill on Monday night in a lecture hall' and was removed to an hotel, where he recovered temporarily. He was preparing to go to Kingston to fulfil an engagement" ' when he was overcome. No funeral arrangements will be made until a decision ■' is arrived at by his relatives in. Mel- ' bourne.

The death of Mr. Thomas Rowes oe- , eurred on Wednesday at the Hawera Hospital. Deceased, who was a colonist ' of some fifty years' standing, and held the New Zealand war medal, had resided in. Hawera for between fifteen and twenty years, and prior to "that lived at Wanganui. For a number of yeara - Mr. Rowe, who was unmarried, had been an invalid, and at the time of his death was 72 years of aga. In the early' days '' Mr. Rowe raced a number of, horses, • True Blue winning the Wanganui Cup . ' of 1875 in his .colors, and his -horse. > Opawa repeated the performance in the following year.—Star. Many playgoers in New Zealand wafl '' hear with regret of the death in Mel- ' bourne of Mr. Frank Lincoln, the bright , young English comedian, who was here recently as leading man with "The Gay \ Gordons" Company. Mr. Lincoln "was very bright and gripful iu personality, vand was much the best of the p'errormefß •who figured in the company mehtione'd; '■' When.in Wellington, he stated 'that'hew.i*.' had been re-engaged by J. ('. Williamson, . Ltd., for another year, and fancied that ' he would be in New Zealand with "The Quaker Girl" Company. Instead of that "; he was placed in the pantomime "Sindbad ' the Sailor," in which he figured as Sindbad.

The death of Dr. Jame? Oswald Drlws, '■ M.A., D.D., was-reported by a Press 'As-' sociation cable message from London on ■' Wednesday. Born at Port Glasgow in , : - 1835, he was ordained in 1859, and two ■ years later was removed from Bast Kilbride to be colleague to Dr. CandlL-sh in the Free St, George's Church, at Edin-' " burgh. In 1864 he resigned owing to ill- • health, and spent three years without a charge at .Melbourne. Victoria. Re-' turning to London, he became minister of' the Regent Square Church, and from 1888 to 1!)07 was Principal and Barbour -• Professor of Divinity in the Theological College of the Presbyterian Church'of ' England." Fe has written several religious books.

With regret we (Hawera Star) record - the, death of Mrs. D. Livingstone'/ of iainape, which occurred on New Year's Day. Deceased, who was the second daughter of Mr. T. J. George, late of the Star office, now of Qtakeho, was for some years engaged in teaching at * Uavjera and other schools, and was head nustress of Frascr road school, when ' some three years ago she left the ■ boards service to be -married. Since her, marriage she had been .living at Taihape. On Thursday last sjie underwent a serious surgical operation, and; ftira. ■ coupkDf days progressed' favorably, but on Saturday night collapsed and never '*•■ rallied, away on New Year's .Day The news will be received with ' ■ great regret by ,a large- c i re l e of friends ' and.acquaintances in this district

At the Sydney Grammar School prizegiving the other week, the headmaster "■» bad something to say about Australian • manners. "There is one service," he said, "which.the schools can render this State at the present time. Our sooial life just now suggests the danger of a general deterioration in maimers—a danger that people may mistake rudeness of conduct for the best expression of a spirit of independence. It seem* to me that the schoolmasters and mistresses of this country should devote themselves to a conscious and specific effort towards education in manners. Yon can't teach manners, from a book of etiquette. You need in teachers a personality which will infuse into the pupils a modesty and good form which seems to consist ;n the avoid- , . ance of unnecessary offence in word or deed to one's neighbor." The death took place at his residence, Brockley," Glen Iris, Victoria, on De- ' ' cember 23, of the, Rev. 11. T. Tucker '- canon of SI. Paul's Cathedral. Mel-' bourne, at the age of (12 years, By his death, says a Melbourne'contemporary ' ~ a conspicuous figure in Anglican Church "> ; . history has passed awav. The deceased' clergyman was educated at Moore 0»1ege, N.S.W., and the University of Melbourne, and entered the ministry in 1873, when lie was ordained bv Bishop , Perry. He was appointed to the ehW' • ■ of Christ Church, South Ynrra, which lift \ held from 1880 until Ins ,uperannuataoV ' m 10.08, a period of 28 years. On his" retirement from the parish, the late canon was presented with a souvenir of v , £2OO from the congregation. He subsequently took up organising work at Fern Tree Gully, where he establishea - . churches in several newly-settled dis- '' • tricts, and later on assisted his son, the - ' Rev. G. Tucker, in carrying 0 n mission- * ; ary work in West Australia. Deceased' '■ * was a canon in St. Paul's Cathedral since ■ ■•• 1894. He was the author of several, in, ■■•'. tercsting works, including "The New Arcadia,'' "After Many Days,!' and /'Light' . / oi Latter Days." Deceasvfl leaves a' ,v .■■ wulcw mid thiec daughters. • , ,