PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 140, 31 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. G. Wills has been appointed to the directorate of the Tikorangi Dairv Company.

The Rev. H. 11. Henson (canon of Westminster Abbey) has been appointed Dean of Durham.

The Right Rev. Dr. Frodsliam, Anglican Bishop of North Queensland, will retire on March 31 for health reasons. Mr. G. V, Tate, of Waitara, who has been seriously ill in a private hospital in Wanganui, had sufficiently recovered to enable him to return to his home last night.

The death occurred on Sunday of Firstclass Gunner Charles Barron, of the Royal New Zealand Artillery, and son of the late Mr. C. C. N. Barron, for many yearn a member of the New Zealand Hansard staff.

Mr. M. Rudd, late manager of the local branch of the Union Company, arrived fiolll Auckland by the Rarawa yesterday morning, and proceeded to Hawera. A few days of his holiday will probably be spent in New Plymouth. In the Whiteley Memorial Church on Tuesday, Mr. Bertram Charles Emerv, of New Plymouth, was married to Mis/.Mildred Eva .1011, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. T. Joll, of Fitzroy. The Rev. J. W. Burton was the officiating clergyman.

Mr Alexander Ilill Jack, promoter of the National Insurance Company, died at Dunedin on Monday. For some years lie represented the company in London. Tie married a (laughter- of the late Mr. Alexander Willis, at one time secretary to the Cabinet.

The London Standard announces that Mr. Chas. 11. Poole, ex-M.P. of New Zealand, is giving great help to the suffragists of the State of Wisconsin, by lecturing there on the advantage to the State of granting equal suflrage, and citing the good effects that have obtained in New Zealand since the admission of women to the franchise.

Mr. Ebenezer Gibbons, who arrived in New Zealand in the early fifties, died on Monday night at Onehunga. He was a native of St. Johns. Newfoundland, and engaged for many years in the timber industry. Mr. Gibbons came to the Dominion with his wife and family in one of his own sailing vessels, and started in the sawmilling business in the Mannkau.

Cabled intimation has been received of the death of Mr. George Kilner, who was some fourteen or fifteen years ago associated with Messrs. Collier'and Co?'s piano business in New Plymouth. The late Mr. Kilner, who had occupied a responsible position in Melbourne for some years, was a brother-in-law of Mrs. C. C. Ward, of New Plymouth. His wife predeceased hitn by about a year. He leaves a family of four.

The Redemptorist Monastery, Wellington, received a cable message' from Limerick on Monday announcing the death of Father Thomas O'Farren. The deceased was amongst the first Redemptorist fathers w'ho came out to Australia. He was widely known throughout the Commonwealth, where he was considered the leading orator for many years, being a very powerful and eloquetit er. Father O'Farren built the Redemptorist Monastery at Ballarat, where he was stationed for several years. He was also for gome time at Wa'ratah. Father O'Farren gave missions throughout New Zealand, and was for some time in the Redemptorist Monastery in Wellington, on a visit. He broke down in health' about a year ago and went to Ireland So prominent was Father O'Farren in the priesthood in Australia that his name was at one time mentioned for a bishopric. He was about sixtv-three vears of age.