PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 220, 15 March 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

His Honor Mr. Justice Sim left by yesterday morning's mail train for Wellington. Mr. E. Whittle was a passenger by yesterday's mail train, en route for Sydney. He will be away about a month. A cable from London announces the death of Mr. Arthur Sassoon, who was an intimate friend of King Edward, aged 71. Mr. J. Paton (chairman) has been delegated to represent the New Plymouth Fire Board at a conference of boards to be held at Wellington in April.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie will arrive in Eltham on Saturday night, and intends to go on to Opunake on Monday. It is probable that Sir James Carroll will also visit Opunake on that day.—Eltham Argua. Private Loveday, the rifle chamipon of New Zealand, met with a great reception on his arrival home on Wednesday evening (says a Press Association telegram from Woodville). A large number of people assembled at the railway station. The champion was placed in a carriage along with the Mayor and the member for the district, and drawn through the town by members of the fire brigade, boy scouts and school cadets. A halt was made in front of the post office, where congratulatory addresses were delivered by the Mayor, the member for the district, and Majors Nelson and Stevenson, and replied to by the champion. Mr. Loveday was entertained at a smoke concert in the Drill Hall on Wednesday night. Engineer-commander G. H. Cockey, D.5.0., R.N., who has been lent by the British Admiralty to the Australian Navy for three years, has arrived in Melbourne and taken" up his duties as assistant to Engineer-captain Clarkson, the third member of the Naval Board. Commander Cockey, who is in his fortyfirst year, served aboard H.M.S. Karrakatta on the Australian station from 1894-97. He was decorated for services with the Royal Marines during Admiral Seymour's retreat from Tienstm in 1900, having landed with the naval brigade for the defence of the city, and accompanied the admiral's forces when they marched to attempt the relief of the legations in Pekin. He was left at the Hei-Ru arsenal with the marines as guard of the party told off to destroy it; he was employed in mounting the 4in guns of H.M.S. Algerine in Tientsin, and was present at the taking of the native city of Tientsin.