PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 112, 27 September 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A very large "send-off social" was accorded liic Rev. Father Maples (who has been transferred to Stratford) by members of the Petone Roman Catholic community on Wednesday evening. On Tuesday evening, at Manaia, Mr. F. Archer, lately engineer to the Waimate North County Council, was presented with a handsome dressing-case on his departure for the South Island.

Sir George Clifford, a director of the London Board of the Taranliki Oil Wells, Limited, arrived in New Plymouth last evening, and confers to-day •with the local board on matters all'eeting the Company's operations.

Mr. Frank Hutc-hens left ITawera on Monday for Christchurch and Creymouth where he is to give pianoforte recitals. 'Those will probably complete .his engagements in New Zealand, and next year lie will most likely.make .a tour of Australia.

A Dannovirke telegram states that Henry Carlson, one of J)annevirke*s first resident* and a pioneer of the sawmilling industry in that district, passed away in Auckland yesterday morning. Deceased leaves a widow and a grown' up family, lie had been ailing some lime and went North in search of health.

MY. Alt'. (J. T.tinit-deii. touring manager of (he "Tiny Town"' Company, arrived in New Plymouth last night to make arrangements for the appearance of the Company in the Theatre Uoyal on Thursday next. The touring manager is fift 2in in height. A reversal of the lienres gives the height of the Mayor of Tiny Town, who is but 2 feet 0 inches..

The vacancy caused by the death of Hie. Karl of On-low as represent tive of the Crand Lodge of New Zealand in (Ire (hand Lodge of English Freemasons, has been filled, anil the distinction, lias fallen on Mr. James W. Matthews, who received his commission from New Zealand early in August. The appointment, remarks a London paper, is the more interesting as Mr. Matthews is Now Zealand born, his native town -being Dnneilin, where the Crand Lodge of New Zealand is novY held,