PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 177, 13 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

~ A London message reports that the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin was thrown while following the hounds, and had two ribs fractured.

A Sydney wire announces the arrival there of Captain Collins, of the Berkshire Regiment, who is joining the New Zealand military stall'. A cablegram from London states that Sir William Ellison Macartney, deputymaster of the Royal Mint, has heen gazetted Governor of Tasmania.

At a mooting of the Cabinet yesterday Mr. John King, Deputy Commismissioner for Taxes, was appointed Commissioner for Taxes, vice Mr. G. F. IC. Campbell, who is to succeed Mr. J. W. Poynton as Secretary of the Treasury. The Hospital Board yesterday passed a motion of .sympathy with Mr. G. V. Tate, of Waitara, in'his continued'illness, and wished him a speedy recovery. | A Sydney cablegram states that Mr. Speaker Willis proposes to visit New Zealand at the end of the year on an extended holiday.

Captain Dnigan, at present attached to the training branch of the Now Zealand Defence headquarters at Wellington, will leave the capital city on the 20th inst. to enter upon a t wo years' course at the Military College at Quetta India. He will be the first New Zealand officer admitted to the college.

"Governors mustn't talk," said Lord Liverpool when asked at Fremantle, where he arrival by the R.M.S. Malwa on Tuesday, if he would grant an interview. He declined to make any statement whatever beyond the remark quoted. The members' of his staff are Captain Eastwood, Mr. Cavan Hamilton, Captain Shawe, acting military secretary, and Lieutenant H. Hutton, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Captain Eastwood is the only member ot the staff accompanying Lord Liverpool.

Word has been received of the death at Whangarei on Tuesday night of Captain F. W. Howard, formerly of the New Zealand militia, and one of the oldest pioneer, settlers in the Auckland district. Oaptain Howard arrived in Auckland with his parents in 1840, when hut ten years of age, and he and his family passed through much of the troublous times of the early days in the North of Auckland. He was married in the historic old Church of England at Russell, in. 184(1, his wife being a daughter of the late Captain Clendon, a member of the first Legislative Council of New Zealand. Mrs. Howard died two years ago. The deceased leaves a family of four sons and two daughters. The eighty-sixth birthday of Sir James Prendergast, K.C.M.G., formerly Chief Justice of New Zealand, was celebrated on Tuesday by a party held in his, residence. It may be news to many to know that Sir James is a Freeman of the City of London by birth, being the son of Judge Prendergast, of the English Bankruptcy Court, He was called to the Bar in London in 1850, and arrived in Otago by the ship Chili in 18G2. The following year he became Crown Prosecutor at Dunedin, and provincial solicitor for Otago. From 1865 to 1875 he held the non-political position of Attor-ney-General, with a seat in the Legislative Council, and in the latter year was appointed Chief Justice, which' he retained until his retirement in 1899. Dominion.