PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 31 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Constable Whitehouse, of New Plymouth, leaves on Friday under transfer to Wellington.

The Prime Minister returned to Wellington from the north yesterday—Wellington ..wire. Mr. Hugh Fraser, of the' reporting fitaff of the Auckland Herald, is on a visit to his people in New Plymouth. News lias been received from England that Mr-. Newton Matthews, an old High School boy, has succeeded in qualifying for his M.8., Ch.B., Mrs. Leys, wife of Mr. T. W. Leys, editor of the Auckland Star, died after undergoing an operation fot a painful malady from wliich she had suffered for several years. Mr. Chas. Aliier, accompanied by Mfss Ahier, leaves New Plymouth about the middle) of March for a trip to Jersey. They expect to reach New Plymouth on their return prior to the end of the year. Mr. W. H. Bridges, assistant-super-intendent of the A.M.P. Society, will arrive in New Plymouth from Auckland today in company with his wife and family, who' have arrived from England, per s.s. Mamari. -

In the University commerce examination the following New Plymouth candidates passed in the specified- subjects: —J. F. Anderson in book-keeping and accounts (elementary), auditing (elementary), rights and duties (elementary); H. B. Burdekin in book-keeping and accounts (elementary), auditing (elementary), and duties (elementary); S. B. Williams, in auditing (advanced), bankruptcy and joint stock companies. The death is reported from America of Miss Edith Crane, the wife of Mr. Tyrone Power, and the creator of the part of Trilby in George du Maurier's play of that name in Australia and New Zeaiand, She was a very fine exponent of the part (which was enacted to the Svengali of Mr. Reuben Fax), having a peculiar voice which suggested to a nicety the tone-deafness of the character. It was in 1906 that the actress first visited New Zealand, but subsequently she visited Australia with her husband, playing a round of emotional parts, none so well as Trilby. It is a coincidence that the news of the death of Miss Crane should reach Wellington whilst the original Trilby (Miss Dorothea Baird) is there. A Press message states that a baronetcy has been conferred on Mr. John Henniker Ileaton. Mr. Henniker Heaton was Conservative member of Parliament from 1885 to 1910. He is noted for many reforms in the postal service. Of sixty reforms he tabulated in 1885 no less than forty have been carried out chiefly through his persistent advocacy. The chief of these are the parcel post to France (1887), telegraphic money orders (1889), and reduced postal rates to India and Australia (1890). He was always a strenuous advocate of Imperial penny postage, which is now an accomplished fact. At present he is urging the adoption of penny-a-word cablegrams. Mr. Henniker Ileaton married an Australian lady and has considerable interests 111 Australia, where he is at present on a visit. He is 04 years of age.