PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 169, 4 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lady Herron is on her way to Wellington to visit her daughter, Mrs. Kitcat. of Marton.

A Fremantle cable states that Lord Liverpool and his suite arrived by the Matua yesterday. Mr. David Greig, a resident of Wellington for many years died on Monday at the age of eighty-two.

Mr. C. Ahier and Miss Ahier returned to yew Plymouth yesterday by the Rarawa, after an absence from New Plymouth of about eight months, the greater portion of which was spent in revisiting Jersey (their native land) and England. Wellington papers record the death of Mr. Arthur 11. Duff. For S9me years Mr. Duff was a resident of Hawera and a member of the Borough Council, and •Id friends will regret to hear of his death. He married a daughter of Mr. S. Dixon, of Hawera.

The London correspondent of the Wellington Times says: Messrs. W. E. Molineux Guy and Fred A. Hooker, of New Plymouth, who arrived in July, will be some time in London before returning to New Zealand. They have done a large amount of travelling in various parte of the country, and are at presen: at Sidcup, Kent.

Regarding the reported resignation of the Secretary to the Treasury, the Minister for Finance said at Dunedin:—Mr. Poynton has been very ill; there can be no question about that, and he has been medically examined. I don't think he can continue the hard work he has been given in the office. The seclusion of office is not suited to him. It is quite possible there may be a change. Sir Richmond Ritchie, permanent un-der-secretary at the India Office, whose death occurred a few weeks ago, was a son-in-law of Thackeray. He married Miss Anne Isabella Thackeray, the novelist's elder daughter, in 1877, the same year that he entered the India Office. Sir Richmond was private secretary to Lord (Jeorge Hamilton for seven years, and political secretary for eight voir*, before becoming permanent wider-secretary.

The Eltham Argus reports that owing to an accident, the Rev. Colville, of Xew Plymouth, will be unable to eonduo.t the service m All Saints' Church on Thursday evening. He was chopping wood wncn a billet flew up and struck him a severe blow on one of the eyeballs He is under medical advice and k ordered to give the eye perfect, rest. The postponed service will be held next Thursday, by which time the reverend "-entlenian hopes to be quite recovered" from the accident.