PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 245, 6 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London message reports that the King and Queen dined at the German Embassy. . ~ Inspector Wilson left by the mail train yesterday morning, on a tour of inspection of the Waitara and t'ronui districts. Mr. T, jr. Wilford, 11.P.. and Mr. Weorgc .Ritchie (Cliristclmvdi) were passengers by the express for the South yesterday. A Press Association cable states that it is officially annuonced that BearAdmiral I'atey has been appointed to command the Australian Fleet. Dr. Newman, M.P. for Wellintong East, has been spending a few days in the Taranaki district. Last week he climbed Mount Egmont. lie also visited Bell Block (in company with Mr. H. if. JL Okey, M.P.)j and inspected the oil works at Moturoa. . Mr. R. J. Parry, headmaster of the Point Chevalier School, Auckland,' died on Saturday evening. He was an honored servant of the Education Board for over twenty years, and was highly respected in Auckland, having been 'in charge of the Point Chevalier School for twenty years. Yesterday Messrs. George Femyfck (Ota-go Daily Times), Stanley Smfth (Dunedin Star), E. G. Kerr (Tiinaru' Herald), and Peter Barr (President of the New Zealand Accountants' Association) journeyed to the North Egmont Mountain House. The party expects to scale the Mountain and return to town this evening. Mr. Frank O'Sullivan, touring manager of the Merry Widow 7 Opera Company, is at present in New Plymouth, making the necessary arrangements' for a visit of the company here on Thursday. March 13th. Mr. O'Sullivan will be well remembered oil the managerial staff of the old Pollard Opera Company., It is about eight years since he was in New Plymouth last. ; Captain William Waller, of the'K.s. Wimmera, who has resigned from the service of the Huddart-Parker Company to take up the position of harbormaster at New Plymouth, was presented with a dressing-case at Sydney last Wednesday morning by the fellow-officers and the engineers. Mr. H. T. Drummond, chief officer of the Wimmera, made; the presentation on behalf of the subscribers. Mr. John Forsyth Connelly, -who passed away suddenly on Saturday at Auckland, was one of the best known commercial travellers in New Zealand. He was an ex-president of the Auckland Commercial Travellers' Club. Mr. Connelly arrived in New Zealand in 1865, and saw much service in the Maori war, ultimately gaining the rank of lieutenant (says the Herald). Mr. Connelly, who was sixty-three years of age, is survived by a widow and a fajnily of four sons and six daughters', "t