PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 321, 10 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that the King and Queen are in Yorkshire, visiting industrial factories and collieries.

The death has occurred of Mr. James Wilson, of Makino, aged 83 years. Mr. Wilson was born in Ireland, and came to New Zealand with the Csth Regiment G7 years ago. It is probable that one of the first appointments the Massey Government will make is that of High Commissioner, and that Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, exPrime Minister, will receive the position.

Steps are being taken at the Thames to erect a suitable memorial of the late Mr. James MeGowan, who was so intimately and popularly , associated with the public life of the goldfields from the earliest days. Word hai? b'een received by the Southern Gross Mission steamer, which arrived at Auckland on Monday from the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands, of the death of the Rev. G. H. Andrew, at Bugotu, on April 20. The Rev. W. P. Paterson, D.D., Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University, passed through Auckland by the Marama on Friday. He has been spending his vacation in Australia, and is returning to Scotland jiia Vancouver. The death is announced of Mr. W. Gordon Rich, of Christchurch, who arrived in Auckland in 1852, and subsequently settled in the South Island; aged 84 year 3. Mr. Edward Hiorns, another well-known resident of Christchurch, died on Sunday, aged 75 years. For the post of agricultural instructor at the South Canterbury schools, at a salary of £350 and travelling expenses, the Board of Education selected from forty applicants Mr. W. Martin, 8.A., D.Se., at present instructor under the Wanganui Board. Messrs. W. Low and W Ellard were the next choice.

Prior to his departure yesterday morning for Blenheim, Mr. W. T. Coad, late senior mail clerk at tihe local post office, was presented with a gold watch-chain from his fellow employees. Eulogistic references were made to Mr. Coad by the Chief Postmaster (Mr. A. P. Dryden) and Mr. G. B. Da]l, Dominion Inspector. t The New Plymouth Borough Council his decided to place on record its appreciation of the able and conscientious manner in which the late Mr. R. A. Gray discharged his duties as Government auditor, and its sense of the great loss sustained by the Citv of Auckland in the death of the late Sir John Logan Campbell.