PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 7 March 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. John Gilmour, of Manaia, was on a visit to New Plymouth yesterday, proceeding north by steamer last evening. Mr. C. K. Wilson, M.P. for Taumarunui, is at present on a visit to this end of his electorate. He is accompanied by Mrs. Wilson.

It is seventy years since Mrs. Samuel Maxton, of Greytown, landed in New Zealand. The pioneer is now eight-five years of age. The Taranaki Agricultural Society has appointed Mr. A.' W. Wood its representative on the Technical School Advisory Committee. Word has been received that Mr. Philip Grey, son of Mr. Geo. Grey, solicitor, has passed the first section of his B.A. and L.L.B. examination.

Messrs. F. Bradley and Sullivan arrived in town yesterday to complete arrangements for the opening of Barton Bros.' circus on the 13th inst.

Mr. R. G. Sellar, of Hawera, solicitor, was yesterday admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Sim, "on the motion of Mr. D. Hutchen, of New Plymouth. The death is announced at Westport of Mr. William Lloyd, a pioneer business man of that town. In the early days he was a member of the firm of Lloyd and McTaggart, of Dunedin.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Huxtable, of Roslyn, Dunedin, celebrated their diamond wedding yesterday. Each is nearly ninety years of age, but both are still in v •omparatively vigorous health. Canon Sadlier, the new Bishop of Nelfon, has had a lengthy colonial experience, and training in the colonies now seems to be recognised as the most appropriate for service in high places in the colonial church (says the Colonist). A graduate of London and Melbourne Universities, the Bishop-elect is now in his forty-fifth year. He was ordained to the deconate in 1891, and to the priesthood in the following year, by the Bishop 'of Melbourne, and after a brief curacy in one of the Bendigo parishes he was appointed vicar of St. Paul's, Bendigo, occupying that incumbency until 1899, when he became Vicar of Holv Trinity, East Melbourne. He received the appointment of Canon of Melbourne Cathedral in 1901. Canon Sadlier was also for some years, concurrently with his parochial duties, lecturer in theology at St. John's and Ridley Colleges, Melbourne. He is described as an earnest churchman of the broad school, who will be a decided acquisition to the Church in the Dominion. Should Canon Sadlier accept the preferment offered him, of which we understand there is no doubt, he will be the third Bishop the Victorian clergy have supplied to New Zealand, the others being Dr. Julius, Bishop of SJftristchurch, and Dr. Crossley, Bishop of Auckland.