PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 247, 8 March 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Paris cablegram reports that Madame Melba'» son is suffering from pneumonia and is in a critical condition.

Mr. Myerseough will conduct the musical examination for Trinity College, London, in Australia, and Mr. St. George in New Zealand. A London correspondent states that Mrs. Riddiford, of Hawera, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Hertz (wife of Dr. Herz, of Guv's Hospital), had left for New Zealand by the Rnahine.

The Government has re-appointed Mr. H. Beauchamp director of the Bank of New Zealand, also Mr. IT. Upton (Auckland) in place of Mr J. M. Johnston. Mr. Upton is representative of the northern end of the North Island. The Rev. Mr. Richards, Presbyterian Minister, leaves Inglewood at the end of the present month for Huntly, his new field of labor. The Record says that the Rev. Richards' health will not stand the rigors of an Inglewood winter.

Miss Ethel M. Standish, of New Plymouth, who has been in the South of England, is visiting London to study massage at the London School of Massage. She bopes to return to New Zealand in the spring, says a London corres-, pondent. Mr. David Pirani, well-known in the Manawatu and Auckland districts where he was engaged as a journalist and in farming, died suddenly at Palmerston on Thursday evening, aged 40 years. He had been suffering from a painful and dangerous malady for some time. On Thursday he was found unconscious in his bedroom, where he expired in spite of medical attention. He leaves a wife, but no family. The death occurred at New Plymouth yesterday of another very old identity in the person of Mrs. George, relict of the late Mr. P. C. George. The deceased lady, who was born in 1822, and had therefore reached the great age of 90 years, arrived in New Zealand by the ship William Watson in 1857, another passenger being Miss Groube, daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Groube. now Mrs. Flood. Of three children only one survives the deceased, viz., Mrs. Cannell, wife of the Rev. W. Cannell. her two sons. Messrs. James C. and John George, having predeceased her by some years. The deceased, who was a lady of most unselfish character and who 'was very highly esteemed by a vast circle of acquaintances, retained her faculties to the end. She was a member of the Wesieyan Church from the early days, and was a Christian whose work took practical form.