PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 201, 4 May 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. B. Murray has been elected chairman of the Wanganui Harbor Board for the eighth time. Mr. George Ball, an old and highlyrespected resident of Wanganui, died yesterday at Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Connett intend leaving next week for a trip to Rotorua. They will be away for a month. At the invitation of a number of school committees the Rev. A. M. Bradbury has accepted nomination for the vacancy on the Education Board. Mr. H. D. Bedford, of Dunedin, ha* announced his intention of throwing in his lot with the unity campaigners of the New Zealand Labor Party. The consecration of Canon Sadlier to the Bishopric of Nelson will take place on July 21, instead of on St. James' Day, May 25, as originally intended. - At the Harbor Board meeting yesterday members wished Mr. C. A. Wilkinson "bon voyage" on his trip to America and Canada. He will leave early next week. Colonel Jas. Allen, commanding the Otago Division of the New Zealand Garrison Artillery, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces officers' decoration, his total commissioned service being close on twenty-one years. Major-General H. Finn, C.8., InspectorGeneral of the Commonwealth Military Forces from 1905 till 1907, and now retired, was a passenger by the Ruahine which arrived in Wellington on Wednesday. General Finn is touring New Zealand. Members of the New Plymouth NoLicense League made a presentation oi a fountain pen to the retiring '< reasurer (Mr. J. H. Frethey) last niaht, as a slight recognition of his servii ■ s and the esteem in which he is held. Mv Frethey is leaving the district, Mr. Charles E. Warner, superintendent of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade, has been appointed superintendent of the Christehurch Fire Brigade, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Superintendent Erck. There were eleven applicants for the position, several coming from Australia. The consecration of the new Bishop of Melanesia, Bishop Wilson, is, according to information received by the Bishop of Auckland, to take place in Dunedin on July 14. The consecration of tb» Bishop of Nelson, under the new arrangement proposed by the Primate, will take place at Nelson on July 21. In response to an invitation from the Nonna-nby Town Board, the chairman (Mr. S. J. Elliott) was appointed to represent the Clifton County Council at the ceremonies of unveiling a cairn at the Waihi cemetery and also a monument in the Victoria Park, Normanby, as a memorial to the fallen soldiers. Though T. A. Edison is «5 years old, he is as youthful as most men at 25. Po» many years he has lived under a selfdenying ordnance, both in respect to sleep and food. He retires at midnight and rises at 4.30 a.m. He considers that the great bulk of the people eat far too much, and that many shorten their live» in consequence. Still another erstwhile Taranaki boy has distinguished himself in the medical world at Edinburgh. Mr. W. A. Bowie, for some time in the Public Worla Office, at Stratford, has succeeded' in gaining first-class honors in the jnnior division oLmedicine, second-class distinction in junior surgery alnd second-class honors in diseases of ear, nose and throat at the a'ecent Edinburgh examinations. Messrs. A. B. Charters, M.A., and F. G. Stuekey, M.A., have been appointed schol inspectors for the Wellington Education Board district. The former is at present headmaster of Greytown school, and the latter headmaster at Island Bay. , These two gentlemen act in succession to Mr. J. S. Tennant, the work of inspectors having increased largely of late. Each holds a Bl teacher's rovtificate. A Press Association message from Auckland announces the death of Mr. Richard Monk, who for mnny years eat in the House of Representatives as member for Waitemata until his retirement in 1902. The late Mr. Monk was 81 years of age. He was born in Lancashire, but his parents brought him to New Zealand at a very early age. In 1849, at the age of seventeen, Mr. Monk acj companied his father to the California diggings. He returned to New Zealand after a time, and entered into business as proprietor of a sash and door factory, subsequently becoming connected with the Mercury Bav Timber Company. In 1881 Mr. Monk'first stood for Parliament as a candidate for thr Parnell seat, but was defeated. Five yenrs later he was elected as member for Waitemata. He was defeated in the gr(>at struggle of 1890. and was elected in 1893. but unseated. From 1896 to 1902 he represented the constituency continuously in the Opposition interest.