PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 303, 19 June 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. W. F. Carncross, M.L.C., arrived from Auckland by the Rarawa yesterday morning, and left for Elthani at mid-day. Mr. Walter King, of the Public Works Department, and a nephew of the Hon. C. H. Mills, died at the Auckland Hospital on Sunday night. The manager of the Cheltenham Dairy Co., Mr. J. Murphy, has accepted a position at llawke's Bay. Mr. J. Young, his assistant, will be promoted to the managership. The British Australasian of May 9 states: "We are informed, on excellent' authority, that Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P. for Hutt, has been offered and has ac- % cepted, the vacant Attorney-Generalship in the Mackenzie Administration."! Last week Mr. and Mrs. Alex Colson, of Egmont road, celebrated the 58th anniversary of their wedding. Mr. Colson is 84 years old. and Mrs. Colson 74, and the whole of their married life has been spent in the New Plymouth district. Mr. W. Elliott has resigned the chairmanship of the Rongokokaka Co-opera-tive Cheese Company, which he had occupied for four years. The directors passed a vote of appreciation for his services. Mr. B. Morriss was elected to fill the vacancy. The Hon. A. M. Myers stated, on being questioned on Tuesday, that nothing had yet been decided by the Government in regard to appointing a successor to Sir Joseph Ward, as New Zealand representative on the Imperial Trade Commission. No officer has yet been appointed to command the contingent of New Zealand cadets which is to visit Canada, but Mr. Myers indicated that an appointment would probably be made this week. Mr. R. C. Hughes ha# been advised of the death at Plymouth of Mr. John Godfrey Single. Mr. Single came to New Plymouth with his parents in 1860, during the Maori War. His father was attached to the Royal Engineers as clerk of works. He returned to England with the Military Forces in 1866. His son John was a draughtsman in the office ol Messrs. Watson and Brown, builders and timber merchants, but he returned to England with his parents. After a short time with a London engineering firm, he obtained a position in the Indian Civil Service. He was mostly engaged in protective and irrigation works on the banks of the Indus. He retired on a handsome pension about twenty years ago, and joined his parents at Plymouth. He married a Miss Sears and made his home at No. 1 Esplanade, facing the historie Hoe, where Drake was playing bowls when the Spanish Armada hove in eight. He leaves a widow and two daughters. His only sister, who died at New Plymouth during the siege of 1860, lies buried in St. Mary's churchyard.