PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 203, 7 May 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss E. Mace 'has been appointed typiste for the office of the clerk to the Taranaki County Council. Mr. Paul Willcox was elected to the vacancy for uie Rahotu riding of the Paribus roau, defeating Mr. A. Chnpman by five votes. It is understood that Major-General Finn (ex-Inspector-General of the Commonwealth Forces), who arrived in Wellington by the Ruahine from London, last week, contemplates taking up land in New Zealand. The death occurred at Kakaramea on Sunday of Mrs. J. W. Randell, through bronchitis. The deceased lady was in. her sixty-ninth year, and with her husband had been looking forward to celebrating her golden wedding on June 22. Mr. Death was elected by the narrow majority of one vote" to fill the vacancy on the Patea Harbor Board caused by the retirement of the chairman, Mr. G. V. Pearcc, M.P. At the meeting of the board yesterday Mr. A. Christensen was elected chairman. The Hon. Arthur Myers follows golf as a recreation. He won a valuable prize in a competition at Trentham on Saturday. On the fact being mentioned at a, public meeting at Upper Hutt on Saturday night, some sport called for "Three cheers for Myers!" The response was instantaneous and hearty. The chairman (Mr. J. Brown) has been appointed by the Taranaki County Council to represent it at the meeting of representatives of local bodies, to be held at New Plymouth on Tuesday May 14, for the purpose of selecting two delegates to attend the conference at Wellington in connection with the Local Government Bill. At the annual meeting of the local branch of the Church of England Men's Society last night, members carried, by acclamation, a hearty vote of thanks to one of their number (Mr. J. C. Legg), who is shortly leaving New Plymouth. Eulogistic reference was made to the good work performed by Mr. Legg in the interests of the .society and the church generally. The death is announced of Mr. James Boleyn, of Okains Bay, an early pioneer of Canterbury. Born at Caputh, Perthshire, in 1830, deceased arrived in New Zealand with his parents in the ship Duke of Bronte in 1854. Mr. Boleyn first took up land in 185G, purchasing a fifty - I acre section at Stony Bay West, in the Okains Bay district, from the old CanI terbnry Land Association.' He added to his holding from time to time. For some years he I was a member of the Okains Road Board and the Akaroa County Council.

Miss Eleanor Davies-Colley, the first woman to be admitted a Fellow of the Royal College ,of Surgeons, entered the London School of Medicine for Women in 1902, and obtained the London M.8.,, B.S. degrees in 1902, and the M.D. las* year. She has held the posts of assistant anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital, senior house surgeon at the New Hospital for Women, Euston road, and demonstrator in anatomy at the London School of Medicine for Women. Her father, the late Mr. J. N. Davies-Colley, was a member of the council and of the court of examiners. Two of her brothers are also Fellows of the Royal College. Brigadier-General Gordon, C.8., District Commandant of New South Wales, who was recently appointed chief of the general staff in Australia in succession to the late Sir John Hoad, is the senior officer in the Commonwealth service. He Was born in 1850, and joined the permanent forces in South Australia as lieutenant in 1882. Promotion in this State was rapid. A year after joining he was made captain, and then in 1885 he gained his majority. Seven months after he was appointed chief staff officer. In 1892 he was made commandant of the State Forces, with the rank of lieutenantcolonel. In 1898 he went to England and served for two years on the ordnance committee at Woolwich Arsenal. He was appointed district commander of Victoria in 1902, when he waa made bri-gadier-general. Since 1905 he has been commandant of New South Wales. In South Africa General Gordon had command of a mounted column and was concerned in action in the Orange Free State, and in operations near Johannesburg. General Gordon takes up his new duties on May 11. Mr. D. C. Collins, son of the Hon. Dr. Collins, M.L.C., of Wellington, enjoys the rare distinction of being the only Double Blue who ha* come to light for forty-two years, says the London correspondent of the Press. The last Duble Blue, also in cricket and rowing, Was Jack Dale, who batted and pulled l for the victorious Cantabriana in 1870, so the New Zealander is bridging a wide gap. By the way, the title Double Bine was formerly reserved absolutely for men who won their place in cricket and the eight, but latterly a practice has grown up of applying it to men gaining representative honors in any two of the sports for which the Blue is awarded. The first real Double Blue under the stricter meaning of the term was Charles Wordsworth, afterwards Bishop of St. Andrew's. He was one of the fathers of the boat race. He rowed four in 1829 and played cricket for Oxford in 1827 and 1829. "Tow Brown's" brother, C. E. Hughes, was a Double Blue, and so was Lord Justice Chitty. Each university has contributed eight to the list, and »t the schools Eton has found four, Tonbridge three, and Harrow two. Wellington is the only school outside England to produce a Double Blue.