PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 50, 17 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr B. H. Chaney is in Wellington for the Dental Conference, which opens there to-day. Mr. W. J. Gray, of Okato, who has been on a trip to America and England, arrived back at Now Plymouth yesterday morning. The condition of W. Retter, the steeplechase rider who was injured a month ago at Riccarton, showed some improvement yesterday. He is now semi-conscious. The Rev. Deeinius Dolamoe, the oldest Baptist minister in the Dominion, and senior minister of the Baptist denomination in Australasia, died in Christchurch yesterday, at the age of 92. Mr. G. P. Wake, of Eltham, was a passenger for Hastings yesterday morning, where he will spend a portion of the winter. He will return to Eltham in the spring. Mr. Wake, in conversation with a Hawera Star reporter, said that if a by-election occurred for the Egmont seat, he would in all probability be a candidate.

Mr. Jolm Ignatius Hunt, a wellknown Australian journalist, died last week in Sydney, aged sixty-five years. At the age of thirty he commenced contributing articles to Freeman's Journal, and right up to the time of his death an article by him was published regularly. At forty years of age he published hi& book, Hunt's Book of Bonanzas," but after that confined himself to writing chief!v for newspapers. "What the Barber Says," an article published regularly in the old Australian Star, "Boondi's Budget" in the Referee, and all articles under the name of '•Boondi" and "Flaneur" in the Sunday Times, Arrow. Freeman's Journal-and a large number oJ country newspapers came from the pen of Mr. Hunt. Mr. Hunt seldom enjoyed really good 'health. His constitution was delicate, and for twenty-seven years he suffered constantly from neuralgia. the attacks lasting sometimes two or three months. Yet he never allowed his affliction to dull his own humorous temperament.