PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 154, 16 November 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rev. J. W. Burton leaves for the Palmerston district to-day. Jie will be away for about a week. At the Presbyterian General Assembly last night the Rev. William McArtha was elected moderator for the year 1913. On account of ill-health, "the harbormaster (Captain (i. Ilolford) was yesterday granted a month's leave of absence. Mr. CD. Houghton. Auckland Manager of New Zealand Shipping Company was a passenger for Auckland bv the Karawa last night. No trace has been found of Captain lope, of the Wauganui Harbor Board, who disappeared on ' Tuesday night. It is leared that lie was drowned

Ihe Rev. Mr. Laybouvne. of Waiuku, tor some years Methodist Minister at RaJiotu, arrived by the Rarawa yesterday morning, and proceeded down the coast later in the day. He will remain at Ka-hotu for a few days, and on Sunday will conduct the Anniversary services in the Methodist Church there.. Thu Rev. H. 0. Hanby, who lost one of his logs as a result of the recent railway accident near Tauniarunui, is resigning the charge of the Anglican Church at Taumarumii, at the end of the year, having accepted a position as curate of St. Barnabas' Church, Auckland. It will be twelve months before Mr. Hanby is sufficiently well to use an artificial limb that he could ride with. It is possible that his place at Taumarumii will be fißed by a Taranaki clergyman who went Home'for training and is now on his way out. Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, the English commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, is the third generation in his family to attain a high naval rank. His grandfather was Sir. David Milne, whose career began with his participation in the relief of Gibraltar towards the close of the eighteenth century. The present commander's father was himself commander-in-chief on the Mediterranean station, and ultimately was made an admiral of the fleet. Sir Archibald has been in the navy since he was fourteen, and has taken part in more than one engagement on land, having been wounded in the Zulu war while acting as naval aide-de-camp to Lord Chelmsford.