PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 57, 25 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. Okey, M.P., was a passenger to Wellington yesterday. Visitors to New Plymouth yesterday included Mr. G. M. Thomson, M.P. for Dunedin North. Mr. B. B. O'Connor has been elected chairman of committees of the ITew South Wales Legislative Council. A London cablegram'states that Mr. Rigg, of Wellington, has been elected to a scholarship of £l5O a year, established in connection with the 1851 Exhibition.

A Sydney cablegram states that Mr. John Barr, the well-known New Zealand journalist, now of the Bulletin staff, is recovering from a critical illness.

Mr. J. Craigie's election committee last night passed a resolution approving of his action during the late political crisis. Mr. T. Buxton's committee also approves of his past services. Mr. C. Davy, who is going to Sydney for a few months, has been presented by the Taranaki Circular Road Race Committee with a ease of pipes in appreciation of his services as secretary. Mr. diaries Wray Palliser, ActingHigh Commissioner for New Zealand, and Mr. T. E. Donne, head of the Tourist Department, were presented to the King on June 10 at a reception given at Buckingham Palace, as delegates of the Radio-Telegraphic Conference.

At Inglewood, on Tuesday evening, Mr. H. W. James, who is shortly leaving the district after having been four years manager of the Moa Dairy Company, was entertained at a farewell gathering by the various sports bodies of the town and presented with a case of pipes. Mr. Percy Old, of the Opunake branch of the Post and Telegraph Department, has been transferred to New Plymouth. Miss Wright (of Rahotu) has been appointed to the charge of the Rahotm post office, Mrs. Lowrie, who has capably -filled the position during the past five years, having resigned. Mr. G. Stewart, accountant of tke New Plymouth branch of the Bank of New South Wales, is severing his connection with the service, and will leave next week for Hastings, where he will join the agency business of Mr. J. R. Lanauze. Mr. N. A. Broderick, of the Wellington staff, is relieving in his stead. Mr. F. J. Heatley, technical organiser to the Taranaki Education Board, has forwarded his resignation, he having accepted a position with the New South Wales Education Department at a considerable increase in salary. The resignation, which was accepted by the Board at yesterday's meeting, will take effect from August 20.

Mr. Tennyson Smith, the temperance lecturer, has been ordered by his medical adviser to cancel all engagements in Australia. He has, therefore, decided to take a rest, and then return to England, where he hopes to resume his mission. Mr. Smith met with an accident in May last, when he fell through a coalbunker hole on a steamer at Devonport (Tasmania), and from this he has not yet recovered. Miss Eileen Castles left Melbourne for Europe by the R.M.S. Moldavia last week. She will leave the vessel at Marseilles and join her sister, Miss Amy Castles, at Vienna. The two Australian singers will open at the Imperial Opera House, Vienna, in September. Miss Amy Castles, who has been appointed Court singer at Vienna, has entered into an engagement extending over five years with the management of the Imperial Opera House.