PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 240, 10 April 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Goldmg, organist of the Whitcley Memorial Church, is at present an inmate of the hospital. It will he some weeks before he will be about again. Mrs. E. J. Liddell, accompanied! by her Bister, Miss Ada Hay, left New Plymouth 'on Good Friday to spenti a month's holiday in Christ church and Ashburton. The Rev. J. McArthur. of Optmake, who is a member of the Taranaki Education Board, has resigned from the Presbyterian charge there to take up a new sphere of work at Motukarara, Canterbury. At last night's meeting of the borough council a vote of thanks was accorded the town clerk (Mr. F. T. Bellringer) tor his voluntary efforts in compiling a review of the operations of the borough covering the past ten years. ° The Hon. Geo. Laurenson, who was present at the Liberal raJly at Stratford on Monday night, in support of the Hon. T. Mackenzie, left for Wellington yesterday morning to attend the meeting of the Trades and Labor Council. Mr. M. J. Reardon will arrive in New Plymouth to-night. He is to act as an assessor on the Conciliation Council in respect to the dispute between the general laborers and the New Plymouth borough council and other employers.

A telegram from Hokitika announces the death of A. C. Grant, stationmaster of Hokitika, which occurred last nHit Deceased, who was 36 years of a»e and had been stationed at Hokitika for about four years, was operated on last Saturday for appendicitis. Mr. F. W. T. Saunders, who was recently in charge of the Powell process works at Rangataua, has been appointed engineer in charge of the construction of the trans-continental railway, a line of 1063 miles in length, which is a work of national importance in Australia. A cable from London reports the death of Mrs. Emily Soldene, a well-known vocalist, actress, journalist and novelist. The deceased, who was a widow, was born in the forties. She was well known in New Zealand, having visited here. Her best known publications are "Young Mrs. Staples," a novel, and "My Thea° trical and Musical Recollections."

Sir Joseph Ward will leave Wellington towards the end of the week for the south, en route to Melbourne on a holiday trip. He will be absent from the Dominion for about three weeks' The procedure in connection with the sitting of the Empire Trade Commission has not yet been fixed. Sir Joseph Ward will not attend the preliminary sitting of the Commission, which will 'probably commence the real business, part of its work in Australia or New Zealand in about three months' time.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Prime Ministor, after visiting New Plymouth yesterday, left in the afternoon for Manaia, where he attended a banquet at night given by his constituents in his honor. To-day he will talce part in the opening of the new post office and the library at Manaia, and will be present at a local bazaar. At night he will attend a public reception at Eltham. On Thursday he will visit Opanake in connection with Harbour Board matters, and will return to Eltham the same night and deliver a lecture on "Explorations in New Zealand." On Friday the lecture will be repeated at a social t© be held at Kaponga.