PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 193, 13 February 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. B. Roy. yesterday returned from a short visit to Oamaru. A Paris wire records the death of Louis Delaunay Beleville, the inventor of the boiler that bears his name. •Mr. E. 0. Day, of the local branch of the Union Bank, is under transfer to leave for Wellington on Thursday morning" Mr. Samuel J. Jackson left for Auckland last night on business connected with a sitting of the Native Land Court which opens there to-day. Mr. Robert Helton Johnson, a very old colonist, died in Southland last week, in his eighty-third year. He arrived in Nelson in 1850 from England by the ship Poictiers.

Mr. D. H. Guthrie, M.P., at a garden party at Feilding yesterday afternoon, received an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns. Mr.. Massey and other M.P.'s were present. The death of Captain Nicholson Woods, aged 60, formerly for many years connected with the Union Company, is reported from Wanganui, For the last six years he was employed by the Canterbury B.S. Company, and had skippered for some time past. The cause of his death was heart trouble.

Mr. A. Milne, of the Borough Council's electrio lighting department, has been promoted to the position of electrical assistant, and his salary increased by £l2 per annum. The change will take effect from April 1 next. Mr. W. H. Haggett, late of Tokomaru Bay, has, succeeded Mr. Milne as linesman, and Mr. H. Malt, assistant at the/ poweT-house, has been increased by £l2 per annum.

Cabled news of the death of Lord Lister was received from London yesterday. He was 85 years old, and was famous for his work on the cause of septic infection vf wounds, a process which led to the employing of antiseptics in all surgical operations. Before his discovery no wound was ever free from germs, but with the advent of the histerion system deaths from operations were enormously reduced. Lord Lister was appointed to the chair of surgery in Glasgow University in 1860, and afterwards held chairs at Edinburgh and King's College. London. He was created a baronet in 1883, and a peer in 1897. A later cablegram states that Lord Lister died at Walmer on Saturday from pneumonia after four days' illness. The end was painless. Upon the request of the Royal Society, the Dean of Westminster offered the Abbey for burial, conditional on cremation, but Lord Lister had expressed a desire to be buried at Hamstead with his wife. The first part of the service will be held in the Abbey on the Kith.

"That this Council expresses its heartfelt sorrow at the death of the late Mr. Fitzherbert, iS.M., and places on record its high appreciation of the faithful and zealous manner in which he discharged nis duties as Stipendiary Magistrate during the long period he was stationed at New Plymouth; and that the deepest sympathy of the Council be tendered to his widow and relatives in their sad bereavement," was the text of a motion passed by the New Plymouth Borough Council at its meeting last night on the motion of the Mayor (Mr. G. Browne). Bearing upon the death of another prominent citizen the Council decided also to express its profound sorrow at the death of the late Mr. Armstrong, and place on record its high appreciation of the faithful and zealous anamier in which he discharged his duties as Commissioner of Crown Lands during the short period he was stationed at New Plymouth, and that the deepest sympathy of the Council be tendered to his widow and relatives in their sad bereavement.