PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A,Sydney wire records the death of Mataafa, ex-King of Samoa, at the aire of 85.

. A London,, cablegram reports that Mr. \yilford, Mayor of Wellington, has arrived in improved health. Mr. A. Cliff, secretary of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, leaves for Masterton shortly to attend the annual show being held there next week. .'. ( Mr. F. W. Fagan, an ex-resident of New Plymouth, w on a visit to the town. In company with Mrs. Fagan and his family he leaves on March 23rd on a visit to England. Mr. Longchu, the Chinese Consul for New Zealand, who is on a visit to New Plymouth, visited the Moturoa oil works .yesterday, and in the afternoon' the Taranaki Jockey Club's race meeting. Fireman H. Moon has been delegated to represent the New Plymouth Fire Brigade at the annual conference of fire brigade® at Rotorua early in March. Fireman E. Clarke, who is leaving New Plymouth, has resigned from _the brigade. A Sydney cable states that the City Council welcomed Mr. Phillips, ex-Mayor of Auckland. The deputy Lord Mayor presented him, on behalf of the councillors and citizens of Auckland, with a badge and replica of the Mayoral chain as an appreciation of his services. Mr C. H. Poole, late member for Auckland leaves about the end of this month on a trip to England to attend to private business mattery He-.has. con- , spntgd to deliver an. a4dress : ,at coln C^aijfaqua. meetnlgs in Illinois, gi> ing 200 lectures jn 100 days oft "New Zealand—its peopl*, its scenery, and reforms." '

General Sir Robert Baden-Powell,'who "lias conjimenced his world tour, in America ji on behalf of the Boy Scout' movement, en route to New Zealand and AjwtraM is accompanied on his tour, by'"a Miff of young men who are acting voluntarily as his "aides." Among them is Mr. Noel van Raalte, the brother of. Miss : van Raalte, whose engagement to Lord Howard de Walden was announced recently. Sijr Robert will lecture on the Boy Scout movement in the United .States an<l many of the towns of the Domimiong.

At. .the meeting of the Mt. Egmont Masonic Lodge last evening, Wor. 'Bro. H. Potter, who has been an active member of the lodge for the past seventeen yeare, but is now leaving for Auckland, was presented by Wor. Bro. F. C, Bellringer, oil behalf of the brethren of the lodge, with a Past Master's jewel. At the lodge of instruction' the previous week. the_ members presented him with a case of. pipes and tobacco pouch, suitably, inscribed, as a slight acknowledgment of the interest he has taken in them. '