PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 172, 19 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Castle has been re-elected president of the Pharmacy. Board of New Zealand. Mr. C. A. Powell, the well-known solicitor of Masterton and ex-Mayor ;of that town, is very seriously ill. x Mr, and Mrs. H. J. Brown and Mr. J. D. Henry left Auckland last night and will arrive in New Plymouth to-day. The Rev. Mr. Philips, for many years in charge of the Presbyterian Church at Manaia, died at Auckland on Tuesday morning.

A Dunedin telegram reports the death of the Rev. David Born?, ex-Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, at the age of 65.

A Brisbane cablegram reports that Archbishop Navarre, Vicar-Apostolic of British New Guinea, died in Townsville Hospital. He spent 25 years in mission work in New Guinea.

Archdeacon' Cassell and Mrs. Cassell, of Hawera, who last week returned from a trip to the Old Country, were on Wednesday evening entertained at a welcomehome social by the parishioners. [Rev. Clive. Mortimer Jones, B.A. (Oxford), who is at present in charge at the Bay of Islands, has been appointed to the parish of St. Andrews, Cambridge, vice Ven. Archdeacon Willis, retired. Mr. R. W. Carpenter, who has .been 'on the literary staff of the Auckland Star for some time, and previously edited the Waimate Witness, has received the appointment of editor of the New Zealand Graphic.

Mr. A. McKenzie, of the Joll Dairy Co., Okaiawa, has been appointed manager of the Okitu butter, cheese and bacon factories. He was-selected from a large number of applicants, and has had considerable experience.

Mr. R. H. Levien, M.L.A., president of the New South Wales Totalisator Commission, is "father" of the Assembly, having sat in Parlianffent for 32 years. Probably no other present merti-. ber in Australia has sat continuously for so long a term.

A Palmerston telegram states that the death occurred early this morning of an old colonist, William Collingwood, father of W. 0. Collingwood, town clerk. Deceased was 80 years of age. He lived for 25 years in Wanganui, and about three years ago came to reside with his son in Palmerston.

Canon Pascoe. vicar of Holy Trinity, Avonside, has resigned the charge owing to failing health. He is the priest with the second longest record of service in the diocese of Christchurch, having .begun his ministrations at Waimate in 1871, and has been vicar of Avonside since 1880.—-Christchurch telegram. f -Rev. D. Borrie, who had been a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Otago since 187(5, died yesterday, aged 65 years. He was pastor of the North East Valley Church from 1884 till 1905. when failing health caused his retirement. Mr. Borrie was Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1905. —Press wire.

After leaving New Plymouth, where site will A'isit her relations, Miss Rosina Buckmann goes to Melbourne, to take the leading part in an opera composed by Professor Marshall Hall, tlie foremost musician in the Commonwealth. He was so much taken with her work in the Melba grand opera season in Sydney and Melbourne that the Professor specially selected the New Zcalander for his prima donna, and she is now studying the part during her present resting period.

Onbled advice lias boon received from Ttaly that Miss A. Van titarcren, daughter of A\ ellington's rabbi, made her delmt as prima donna in grand opera at iSossano, and that the result was a triumphant success. Tn London she studied under Dr. Arkell, who paid her the unique, and, it is said, unprecedented, compliment of being present at her first appearance in grand opera. Her voice is a contralto, and Signor Recordi, the famous conductor at Milan, speaks of it in terms of the highest praise.