PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 162, 8 January 1912, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. H. Stevens, Inspector of Post Offices, is an town. Mr. 0. Buchler, headmaster of the i Ashkurst school, is on a visit to New; Plymouth. A Sydney cablegram reports that Mr. Myers, of Wellington, has returned from ; England, and sailed for New Zealand* on Saturday. , Mrs. W. Buckle, of Hawera, died on i Saturday night The deceased lady waa i well known and highly respected in Tara--1 natal ■ Mr. A. IL. Dixon; town clerk o$ . 'Whangarei, who hag .been spending a holi- . day in New Plymouth, left for AuckJ land by the Barawa on Friday night. ■ Stnior-Sergeamt Dartt will leave New Plymouth in a few days for South, and! will then probably go on leave. Mm Dart leaves this morning for Stratford for a few daye. The Ten. Archdeacon Walsh has re-" signed the Archdeaconry of Waimata, but at the request of the Bishop he will retain (the title of Archdeacon. He now resides with Archdeacon Willis at Cambridge. , The death occurred on Sunday last, at Wanganui, of Mrs. John Seid, one of the , oldest residents of the district, The de- . ceased, who was 74 years of age, came to Wanganui in the early 'sixties, and , went through all the troublous times of the Maori war. The late Mrs. Reid, who was very widely respected, leaves a ' grown-up family of five sons and four daughters. At the Education office on Saturday, Miss Gilbert was presented by the staff with a silver jewel case on the occasioa of her severing her connection with the office. The secretary, Mr, Whitcomibe, when making the presentation, spoke highly of the manner in which Miss Gilbert had discharged her duties during the time-she had .been in the .board's service. Mr. Ballantyne, who replied on behalf of the recipient, also complimented her on the faithful work she had done. Only twenty Maoris sailed by the Somerset, Maggie Papakua-a being one of the number. Maggie's engagement to Mr. btaples-Browme, of 14, Harrington Gardens, S.W., and Oxfordshire, is definitely announced in the English papers. The marriage will take place in New Zealand. Thirteen Maori men and seven women have remained' in {England, but their plans are not known. Mr. Stall has offered them an engagement at the Coliseum. The cabled statement that the London limes had sharply criticised the svstern of the New Zealand University on the line of complaints made recently by the University Reform Association in Wellington, referred to Mr. Henry Maior who is probably the RSv. Henrv D A* Major, who passed through a distinguished course at Auckland University Colliege, graduating M.A. in New Zealand | and. subsequently graduating at Oxford He is now vice-principal of Ripon College, Yorkshire. He has gone through beth the New Zealand and the Engliih University courses, and he is also opposed to the proposed reform.