PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 82, 23 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram reports the death of the Rev. Jas. Kingshorn, a Presbyterian minister, and Dr. Louissony a wellknown Sydney medico. Mr. H. Nuttall, formerly a well-known settler at Rahotu, but latterly schoolmaster near Morrinsville, died at Hamilton on Sunday laet from pneumonia. Mr. J. Hopkins arrived from Wellington last night to make arrangements for the opening of Edward Branscombe's company, "The Dandies," wjiich will be produced in New Plymouth on September .3.

Mr. Harold Jennings, son of Mr. W. i T. Jennings, of New Plymouth, has re- j ceived an important appointment with j a banking firm in Buenos Ayre's, South I America. Mr. Jennings has been in Lon- j don for a few years past. j

A Sydney cablegram states that Dr. Mackin has returned from a year's tour of the world. He visited many leading European and other hospitals and gained much valuable information. He will sail for New Zealand on Saturday; j Mr. C. W. Hooker, who has been sec- J rotary of the Whiteley Sunday 'School., for ten years, was presented this week" with an address and a purse of sovereigns by the superintendent (Mr. C. Carter) on behalf of the teachers and the scholars. Mr. Hooker is removing, some distance out of town.

Yesterday ' afternoon the Board, of Manangement of the Young Men's Christum ( Association of Perth, Western Australia, unanimously appointed the Rev. A. S. Wilson, of Wanganui, as its general secretary. Mr. Wilson, previous to coming to Wanganui, five years ago, occupied a city pulpit iji Perth for eleven years.

Of thirty-fiTO applicants for the 'Rectorship of the Timani Boys' High School thrc6 have been selected from which a final selection will be made. These are Messrs. W. Thomas (headmaster of the, Waimataitai State School, Timaru), Lusk (assistant at Christ's College, Cliristchurch), and A. Stnckey (of King's College, Auckland). Dr. Chappie, M.P., already has a reputation in' the House of Commons as-a member of inordinate industry (writes the Post's London correspondent). During one week he has piloted through committee, with a fair hope of becoming law, a Scottish Bill for the protection ot animals against ill-treatment; - he. has written, to the Times a warning against showing any hospitality to the second ballot as a means of getting majority representation; and he has written to the Standard strongly recommending a Bill for 'the compulsory registration of nurses, a measure which, he says, has had the effect in New Zealand of eliminating uuearnest girls and attracting to the profession '•high-minded, noble-heart-ed girls" of the right sort. Now Dr. Chappie has sailed for Canada on a tour of study, which will probably occupy the Parliamentary recess. The late Mr. Henry Sargent, of Wanganui, by his will appoints the Public Trustee executor and trustee. He directs his wife''to have a life interest in his whole estate, which is worth about £J5,000. After her death a number of legacies are to be paid, including £SOO to the Wanganui Astronomic Society, £250 to the Wanganui Orchestral Society, and £250 to the Wanganui Museum, and the residue to the Wanganui Borough Council to establish and maintain; in the Wanganui borough a fine arts gallery, for the reception, purchase and acquisition of works of art for the benefit of the public. Deceased expressed a desire that such works of art be purchased only on account of their intrinsic value as works of arti The gallery is to be managed by the Wanganui Borough Council, to whom the Publie Trustee is to account for the income.

'j ii(! late Mr. Eugene O'Connor, of Nnlson, by his will, of which the Public Trustee is executor, niter a number of small legacies to nephews and nieces and an annuity to his sister, gives the residue of bis estate to three trustees (comprising the .Roman Catholic Bishop of' Wellington, the Mayor of Westport, and the member of Parliament for the district in which Westport is situated) upon trust to establish an institute at West-, port on deceased's property at Xine Mile Road for rearing and training destitute children of both sexes, and all denomination-, and to take charge of old people. .Such institutions are to be under the charge of th</ Little Sisters of the Poor and other Roman Catholic religious orders approved by the Bishop of Wellington, subject to no religious exclusivencss, and open to alt denominations. The residuary of the estate in the hands of the Public Trustee for such purposes is about £IB,OOO.