PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 189, 30 December 1912, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Bishop Julius and his wife are passengers liv the Wiirrimoo, which loft Sydney on Saturday.

Miss Helen Mackenzie, daughter of the Hon. T. Mackenzie, leaves New Zealand for England in February by the Turakina.

President Taft has decided to accept the Kent Professorship of Law at Yale University ,and will commence his duties in the spring. Prince Albert Frederick, the .second son of the King, who is 17 year* old, has decided to adopt a naval career, lie will make an extended cruise in a battleship in the North Sea after the New Year.

Mr. A. P. Dryden, Postmaster at New Plymouth, at present acting Chief-Post-master at Christehurch, will succeed Mr. D. Miller (promoted to be Chief Inspector of Post Offices) as Chief-Postmaster at Wellington. Another of Taranaki's fast disappearing band of pioneers passed away on Saturday in the person of Mre. Thomas Colson, who died, after a short illness, at the great age of 85 years. The deceased lady arrived with her parents in the barque Eden, in the vear ISSO, and by her genial and bright disposition will long be remembered by a wide circle of friends. A husband and son are left to mourn their loss. The interment will he private. Mr. R. 11. Rockel, M.A., at present act-ing-headmaster of the Tiinaru lioys' High School, has been appointed by the Technical School .Hoard to the position of mathematical master in the Wellington Technical School. Mr. Rockel is 44 years of age, has had 27 years' experience as a teacher, and plays all school games save football. Mr. I). L. Robertson, now in the Carterton District High School, was appointed commercial assist-ant-master, and Miss Catherine Cable, of Dunedin, temporary instructress in dressmaking. The congregation of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, sprung a surprise on the Dev. Dr. Oibb by presenting him with a motor-car as a Christmas gift. For some time past the pastor of St. John's has been troubled with a. form of rheumatism, which made it difficult for him to cover big parish, and in order to make his task the lighter, a proposal to present him with a car was made. The idea was taken up heartily, and the response was such that the necessary funds wore soon in the hands of the treasurer of the movement, and the presentation was dnlv made at Christinas.