PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 133, 23 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

In a letter to a resident of the Dominion, Mr. Elbert Hubbard writes that he expects to be in Xew Zealand early in March. Mr. James Stubbs, a well-known resident of Palmerston, died on Friday, a»ed 03 years. He leaves a widow, three sons and one daughter. A Melbourne cablegram states that Mr. James Kell, Inspector of the B-n:lc of Australasia, has been appointed J'eputyGovernor of the Federal Bank. Mr. Henry Brown, of Inglewood, who has been residing in New Plymouth during the past few months, is at present seriously indisposed, and has entered a local private hospital. The death occurred at Inglewood on Monday evening of Mr. John Barron, one of the earliest settlers of that district, who passed away very suddenly at the age of sixty-two" years.

Mr. E. D. Hoban, late managing editor of the Manawatu Daily Times, has been appointed editor of the Chrintcliureh Evening News, in succession to Mr. E. C. Huie, who is to edit the new Christchurch evening paper.

Mr. Woods, of "Woods' Great Peppermint Cure" fame, who has been visiting New Plymouth, left yesterday morning for Wanganui. During his stay here Mr. Woods visited the North Egmont Mountain House, of which he speaks in high praise. The Rev. H. 0. Hanby, who is very popular and well-known in Taranaki, and who a few weeks ago met with a serious accident on a bush railway in the King Country, which necessitated the amputation of one of his legs below the knee, has made an exceptionally good recovery, and left the Waikato Hospital last week. Besides the terrible injury to his leg, Mr. Hanby received a very severe shock, and his condition at the time was considered critical. The new? of his recovery will therefore be very welcome to his numerous friends. Mr Hanby is at present in Auckland attending the Anglican Synod. On his first appearance at the proceedings he wan heartily welcomed by the members, who expressed their deep sympathy with him in the misfortune that he had met with

A very old colonist passed away at Palmerston Xorth on Friday in the person of Mr. Carl Yortt, in his 91st year. He had been in New Zealand just half a century, and in Palmerston for 22 years. He was born In Sweden on November 16, 1821, and at the age of* 37 he sailed for the colonies, landing in Melbourne in 1850. Three years later he came to New Zealand, and was engaged in mining and blacksmithing in Otago for some years. He was one of those who participated in the Gabriel's Gully rush. His next venture was on the "West Coast, where he was connected with mining. About 1800 the late Mr Yortt went to Palmerston North. Tt was not until lie was well into the eighties that he actually ceased work. Big wife died only about four years ago.