PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 13 April 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. W. Gillies will be a candidate for the Hawera mayoral chair. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Prime Minister, returns to Wellington this morning. The death is announced of Mr. J. Pinkerton, a very old resident off ftton North, at the age of 75. Mr. W. Williams, recently of the staff of the Sydney Evening News, hat been ■ appointed editor of the Eltham Argus. Dr. Fitchett, Public Trustee, who hat been in Taranaki the last few days, returned to Wellington yesterday morning. Mr. John Strauchon, Under-Secretary for Lands, has been apjpointed to b» I member of the Board of Land Purchase*, I in place of Mr. Kensington (retired). Professor F. W. Haslnm, who has occupied the chair of classics at Canter- . bury College for the past 32 years, il ,'. resigning on the ground of ill health. \ Mr. Edmond James Morgan, who died on Thursday at Waitui, near Inglewood, was 71 years of age. He landed in the Dominion in 1856 and saw service in the 1 Maori war. He leaves a family of three sons and three daughters. At Kaponga on Thursday night a largely attended function was held to bid farewell to the Rev. W. B. Scott, Methodist minister, on the eve of his removal to Aramolvo. He was a prominent footballer and a member of the Taranaki Referees' Association. Mr. C. P. Lindegreen, of Hastings, has been appointed organiser for the Opposition party, in succession to Mr. R. R. Martin, Who has resigned in order to take up other duties. Mr. Lindegreen was secretary to Mr. H. M. Campbell, M.P. for Hawke'a Bay, during the last election campaign. At a meeting.*! the New Plymouth C. T. Mills was appointed to 411 v ths vacancy on the directorate caused bj the retirement of Mr. A. Shuttlewortb. who for 32 years had been a director and';,,. chairman of the company. A hearty vots ' v of thanks was accorded Mr. Shuttlewortb for his past services. At the Veterans' Home, Auckland, on Sunday, there died Isaac Gleed, late of the 57th Regiment, who had attained the age of 80 years, having served with ; (l the &7th Regiment from 1851 to 1868. He saw service during the Crimean war, and was awarded the Turkish medal, also the Sevastopol one, with bare for Inkerman, Balaclava and Sebastopol. For ' service in Taranaki he also received the Maori war medal. The Masterton Age says: "A pleasing . ceremony was performed in Masterton, when a number of Mr. H. H. Reynolds' friends waited on him at his private residence, to bid him farewell prior t« his departure for Stratford. Mr. E. Feist, on behalf of those present, handed Mr. Reynolds a gold-mounted fountain pen, and in doing so stated that his friends •;'. could not let him depart without showing in some degree the very high regard they had for his many sterling qualities. They all wished him every success in his new sphere of life. The recipient suitably acknowledged the presentation "