PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 186, 24 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir John ai,d Ladv Findlav are passengers by the Moeraki from "Sydney.

M.r Alien was welcomed in Melbourne by ,\ r. I earee, Minister for Defence, and the heads of the 'Defence Department.

At a _ meeting 0 f the executive of the Expansion and Tourist League last evening, Air. A, E. Humphries was appointed secretary, vice Mr. A. Snowball, resigned. > o

Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Davis, of Waverey celebrated their golden wedding on J-riday. Every member of the family, nine m number, was present at the reunion held to mark the occasion. Mr J. p. Arnold, ex-M.P. for Dunedin South, who; has been employed in the Dunedin office of the Labor Department for some time, has been promoted to the position of an Inspector of Factories for the Otago district.

Last night the citizens of Palmerston tendered a farewell to Mr. W. T. Wood,. ex-M.H.R., and presented him with a purse of sovereigns. Mr. Wood is leaving Palmerston to recuperate at a seaside resort.

Sir Gilbert Willis, who was to have accompanied Lord Liverpool as extra aide-de-camp, had to change his plans at the eleventh hour, on account of the death of Lord Peel, as whose successor he stood, and was elected,-for Taunton, in the Unionist interest last month, gaining the seat with a majority of 50 votes above his predecessor.

Mr. Hector McLean, M.A., a former dux of the Otago Boys' High School, has headed the list for the whole of Scotland in the annual examination of the United Free Church of Scotland, and won two bursaries. One of these is the special and much-coveted Freeland bursary for Hebrew, and the two together are valued at £52 per annum for two years.

The death of Captain J. T. Adams occurred at the Taita on Saturday morning, aged seventy years. He had been living in retirement there since 1888. The deceased was married twice. He leaves three sons (the eldest being Mr. E. C. Adams, of the Union Company, Wellington), an rltwo daughters by his first wife, and four sons by his second wife, who survives him.

A unique function, probably the first of its kind in the Dominion, took place at the Star Hotel (Auckland) on Saturday afternoon, when the members of the literary staffs of the Brett Publishing Company entertained one of the proprietors, Mr .T. W. Leys, the occasion marking Mr. Leys's entrance into his fiftieth year as a journalist. Mr.j Leys was presented with a handsomely framed enlarged group photograph of the liter ary staffs of the Star; Graphic, and Farmer.

Letters received in Wellington by a recent, English mail, state that Mr/ W. B. Moorhouse, of Northampton, has been committed on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of a carter on a Gloucester county road. Mr. Moorhouse, who was well known/ in Wellington and Christchurch a few years ago, is now a well-knowni English airman. It appears that when the accident referred to happened he was motoring past a waggon, when the horses in the latter took fright and bolted. The carter, who had recently been suffering from sciatica, was knocked down and killed while endeavoring to stop the horses. It is alleged that Moorhouse was motoring at an excessive speed. While in Christchurch young Moorhouse, as the result of an accident while riding a motor-cycle, was tried for manslaughter and acquitted.