PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 5 June 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram announces the death of Lady Tatton Sykes. Mr H. J. Brown, of the British Empire Oilfields, Ltd., and Mrs. Brown, arc back in New Plymouth.

Colonel John Anderson, M.R.C.VS. who served in the New Zealand war. 1860-0, died at Bombay on May 1.

Wiki Kemp, the celebrated chieftainess, daughter of Major Kemp, died at Putiki yesterday, aged 01 years.

A private message states that Colonel F. W. Abbott died of pneumonia on tht steamer lonic on his way to take chargu of the Christchurch district.

The wife of Mr. E. de C. Clarke, M.A., of Auckland University, died after a short illness of pneumonia last Thursday afternoon. Deceased had many friends in New Plymouth.

Mr. Mansfield, the Wanganui borough engineer, last night tendered hiß resignation, which the Council accepted, and, as a mark of appreciation of the work he has dona, granted him six months' salary. ;

Dr. James Eight, professor of political eeonomy at Canterbury College, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Coat of Living Commission caused through the retirement of Mr. J. Rosa, of Dunedin.

A Dunedin telegram says:—lt is understood that the Hon. J, A. Millar ifl suffering from trouble with his eyesight, and that his medical adviser has ordered him to take a complete rest for a time. Mr. Millar left for the north by the second express yesterday. The death of Mr. Fortunatus Bvely* Wright at Christchurch, at the age of' 83 years, removes one who played a prominent part in the public life of Canterbury since its earliest years. Mr. Wright was born in England in 1829, and arrived in Christchurch in 1862. For four years he was in the serviee of the Union Bank of Australia, and later was chief postmaster of Canterbury for eighteen years, resigning position to take the chief agency fo* Canterbury and Westland of the Government Life Insurance Department, ii 1859 he established an overland mail service between Dunedin and Christchurch. In 1873 Mr. Wright read a paper before tho Philosophical Institute of Canterbury on the desirability of dedicating small areas of land for the people of New Zealand The newspapers took the matter up, and it resulted in the formation of recreation reserves in various parts of the country. While resident in Lyttelton, Mr. Wright, in conjunction with Mr. C. W. Turner, started the first savings fcai* in Canterbury, wihich, after a life o1 It years, was merged into the Pbet Office Savings Bank. Mr. Wright, who managed the affairs of the bank from beginning to end, was also instrumental in starting the first building society.