PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 242, 12 April 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. T. Tvviss, one of the Crown lands rangers, is ill with typhoid fever. Mr. Justice Cooper returned from a trip to En aland by the Moeraki on WedUUbiluj', Mr. J. C. Armstrong, district tiaffi* manager for the railways, is at present in New Plymouth. Mr. ,T. G. Delaney, of the literary «taf! of the Eltham Argus, has been appointed editor of the North Auckland Times. Messrs Newton King, R. Cock, and the Rev. Mr. Cruickshank arrived by the Rarawa yesterday morning from Onehunga. After holding office for a number of years, Mr. A. Shuttleworth has tendered his resignation as chairman and a director of the New Plymouth Gas Company. . It is not generally known that the Hon. Dr. Te Rangihiroa, the Minister for Native Affairs in the Mackenzie Cabinet* was brought up in the Urenui district, where his connections stjll reside. The Grey River Argus says that a telegram received in Westport leads to the belief that the Hon. R. McKenzie will, at the first opportunity, roteagainst the present Administration. Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, who was here the other day, was a resident of New Plymouth thirty-eight years ago, when he was a probationer in the Wesleyan Church. . The death occurred , at Palmerston North last week of Mrs. Bert Symee, of Waverley. Deceased, who was only thirty years of age, was a daughter of Mr. T. Nicholson and a sister of Mr. J. C. Nicholson, of Messrs Roy and Nicholson, solicitors, New Plymouth. At a meeting of the Methodist Church Circuit this week, a resolution expressing the loss of the church in the death of Mr. C. A. Benbow, and of sympathy with his widow and family, was carried by the members standing. A letter of sympathy was directed to be sent to the widow and family of the late Mr. Mynott.

News has been received in Christchurch that Dr. L. Cockayne, F.L.S., has been selected by the Council of the Royal Society, of London as one of fifteen gentlemen selected for ejection into the society this year (says the Lyttelton Times). The fellowship of the RoyaJ Society is one of the highest honors conferred upon scientists in any part of the world. At present there is only one other fellow of the society in New Zealand, Professor W. B. Benham, of Dunedin.

On Wednesday, April 3, at the residence of her parents, Miss Ada Ceceldine, of Te Wera, was married to Mr. Geo. Sharman, of Levin. The officiating minister was the Rev. Mr. King. Tlie bride was given away by her father. She was attended, by two bridesmaids— Miss Olive Ceceldine, her sister, and Miss Myrtle Sharman, sister of the bridegroom. Mr. Jas. Rogers, of Pohokura, was best man. After the ceremonT the young couple left for Rotorua for their honeymoon. Among the visitors to New Plymouth this Easter is Mr. John McDonald, of the East Coast, after an absence of 44 years. It will be remembered by the older residents' that it was Mr. McDonald who first visited Pukearuhe after the massacre of Rev. Mr. Whitely, the Gaskoyne family, and others, and carried the news to New Plymouth, warning the settlers as he rode alpng, afterwards returning to the scene of the massacre as guide to a troupe of mounted volunteers. Mr. McDonald left the distriat soon after with his father, the late Sergt. MjcDonald, formerly of the Artillery, and others of his family, and has not seen the district since. Mr. McDonald is much impressed with the progress of both town and district. Miss Rosina Buckmann arrived in Sydney from New Plymouth last week, where she sang the soprano part in Bach's "'Passion" a't the Town Hall. She was then to go to Melbourne, having been engaged fbr the two performances of Professor Marshall Hall's opera, "Stella," at Her Majesty's Theatre on May 4 and l'l. On May 21 Miss Buckmann will be singing "in "The Golden Legend" at Auckland. Then she will go to Wellington and Christchurch to take the part of Santuzza in concert-form performances of Cavalleria Rusticana." Concerts in Auckland, Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and other places are to follow. In all probability Miss Buckmann, who has rejected &n Australian engagement for comic opera, will leave for London or New York at the end of July.