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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 235, 2 April 1912, Page 4

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A London cable reports the death of the Rev. Henry Varh-v, the well-known Evangelist. Councillor John Smith, acting-mayor of Wellington since Mr. T. M. Wilfo'rd left for England, and Mr. R. A. Wright, ex-M.P., have announced their candidature for the city mayoralty. Mr. Robert Ellis, clerk to the Taranaki County Council, was yesterday granted an increase in salalry of £SO. The council also decided to appoint a typiste, in addition to the present assistant. The chairman (Mr. J. Brown) congratulated Mr. El'lis on his restoration to health and recommended the council to grant him leave of absence. Councillors unanimously agreed to the suggestion. Mr. Elhs will be away for three weeks. Mr. Bernard Espinasse, the member of the staff of "Pearson's Weekly" -who has been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for conspiring fraudulently to win prizes in newspaper competitions, is well known in Sydney and Melbourne, having lived in those cities up till about four or five years ago, doing free-lance journalistic work for various papers, including the Bulletin. He is the author of a version of "The Three Musketeers," which was played successfully in Australia, and has written many short stones and a few plays of literary merit. It was somewhat of a coincidence that the late Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, who died at the residence of Mrs. Quickball, Inglewood, on Sunday, March 31, 1912, should have arrived in New Plymouth just 71 years previously, namely, on March 31, 1841. The deceased lady arrived by the Timandra, the first emigrant ship to reach Taranaki, and she, with Mrs. Wood, of Waitara, the only other surviving lady passenger of that boat, performed the ceremony of unveiling the obelisk that was erected at Moturoa last year to commemorate the landing of the early settlers.