PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 203, 16 January 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

f A Paris telegram says that M. Dubost » t, 1) ? sc^lan<, l w iU he candidates for the ireneh Presidency. r Mr ; E - Dockrill was yesterday nmni- . mously re-elected chairman of the New 1 Plymouth High School Board. His dec- '• tion was unopposed. I Mr. A. J. H. Benge, 8.A., of the Kdu- _ cation Department, has been appointed to the position of secretary to the Public service Commissioners. - At yesterday's meeting of the Hospital . Boardthe resignation was accepted of Miss Catherine Johnson, of the liursin" [ stafl of the Xew Plymouth Hospital. " • Mr. J. C. Nicholson has recovered suf- > neiently from the illness which detained lum at Hastings to leave there bv auto- . mobile, en route for New Plymouth. He ; is expected home to-day. ' At a late hour last night (says yesterday's Wanganui Chronicle) no change t wag reported in the condition of the Hon. _ John iiryee, but we were informed that , his medical advisers can hold out no ho2)0 of recovery. i In a letter thanking his fellow mcui- - bers on the Hospital Board for their re- ] solution of sympathy, Mr. O. V. Tate stated yesterday that he was getting - over his long illness, although somewhat 1 slowly, and he hoped soon to be able 1 to resume his seat on the Board. f On Friday night, at the Church ot\Advent, Tauiuaruniii. the Rev. E. H. Gallop, 1 M.A., Oxon, was formally inducted into,, the charge of the Taumantnui .Mission > District, and Rev. C. A. Mallett into that of the Ohura. The \ enerable Archdeacon j Evans, of Taranaki, performed the ceremony. j The Hospital Board yesterday decided } to forward a resolution of condolence to s Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Hirst and family in l connection with their recent sad bereave- ; ment and sympathy with Mr. W. IT. ] Moves, under whose charge the High ; School boys were when Harold Hirst i was drowned at Mokau. Superintendent F. C. J. Bellringer will represent the New Plymouth Fire Rri- ' gade at the Conference of Brigades, * which is to be held shortly in Wanga- ■ mii. He is at present laid aside with illness. and, at yesterday's meeting of the Hospital Board a motion was passed , wishing him a speedy recovery, f The right to the title of nonagenarian ; was on Monday achieved by Captain E. l F. Hemingway, of John street. Mount - Roskill (says the Auckland Star). The t old gentleman, who lias permanently ref sided in New Zealand during the last , eighteen years, has had a distinguished - 'military career, having fought in the i Crimean war. and all through the' Maori f war. His reminiscences of Auckland ao a back over a period of half a century. 1 Despite his ninety years. Captain TTemt ingwav still enjoys very good health.