PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 204, 17 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

'the Hon. O. Samuel and Mrs. Samuel left by the Rarawa last night for Auckland. A cablegram from Ottawa states that the Duchess of Connaught is out of danger. Among the successful scholars at the recent University examinations appears the name of the late Master Harold "Hirst, the victim of the Mokau tragedy. Captain IT. W. Northcroft, formerly Stipendiary Magistrate has been oll'ered and has accepted the position of Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands. —P.A. wire. Ensign Gibbs, of the Salvation Army, who lias been in Hawcra for a little over a year, has been transferred to New Plymouth. He will be succeeded at ITawera by Adjutant Cook. Mr. William Dumbell, son of the' Rev. John Dumbe)), of Wellington, and a former resident of Taranaki, is revisit- I ing New Plymouth. Mr. Dumbell is connected with the Public Works Department in Wellington. Mr. F. D. Clayton, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Feilding, has been promoted to the management of the Melbourne branch. Mr. R. B. Kigg, of the Melbourne branch, is going to the bead office as inspector. An old Taranaki boy in the person of Mr. A. C. Skeet, sub-manager of the Melbourne branch of the [Jnion Bank, is visiting New Plymouth after an absence of 17 years. Before taking up liis present position, he acted as inspector for the Bank in New South Wales. Princess Mary will, it is said, be eonliimed iii St. George's Chapel at Windsor i-hortly after Easier. The procedure adopted in the ease of the Prince of WaU* will be closely followed, The Archbishop of Canterbury is to officiate, and will have as his principal assistants the Bishop of London, the Dean of the Chapels Royal, and the Rev. Canon Edgar Sheppard. the sub-Dean of the Ohapels l'oyal. The latter lias had charge of 1 the preliminary instruction of her Royal Hiirhness.