PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 248, 10 March 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. 11. W. Climie, consulting engineer to the Borough Council, is visiting Xew Plymouth. A Vienna cable states.that it is reported that the King and Queen of England will visit Vienna at the end of May. A Press Association cable message from Vancouver announces the death of Pauline Johnson, the Indian poetess. Mr. P. O'Dea, barrister and solicitor, Ilawera, is joining the legal firm of Caplen, Welsh, and McCarthy of Hawera. Mr. E. Pridham, M.A., late headmaster of the New Plymouth High School, accompanied by Mrs. Pridham, left Wellington on Friday by the Maunganui for Sydney, en route to England. Mr. John Loinas, Secretary of Labor' and Chief Inspector of Factories, has resigned his position, owing to ill-health. The appointment of his successor will probably be deferred until the Public Service Commissioners assume office on April Ist. , Mr. A, H. Glasgow, manager of the local branch of the Union Bank for the past six years, has been promoted to) theposition of manager of the Wanganuii branch, and will take up his new duties; at the end of the month. He will be? succeeded- at Sew Plymouth by Mr. !«.. Coghill, manager of the Newtoii branch,. Auckland. . A Sydney message reports the deathof Sir James Graham, after an operation for an internal complaint. SirJames Graham,, who was 57 years of age, was a member of the Xew Sooth; Wales Assembly from* 1894-1001. 7fe* was a medical man, and , a lecturer in the medical faculty of Sydney University. In 1901 he was .Mayor of Sydney. Three—possibly four—members of the Imperial Trade Commission will visit Xew Plymouth this week. They will comprise: Sir Rider Haggard, and jlesm X. Lorimer, and T. GiU'fteltr,. (pltl Old Country representatives) and l most ■ likely the Hon. Bowring, of Xewfound-'-land. The party will arrive in New Plymouth by train from Wellington to-mor-row evening. x In the St. Andrew's Preshyteriafi' Church last week, .Miss Enid llteni Cor-' ney, daughter of Mr. and Mr*. A. • Corney, of Xew Plymouth, was married! to Mr. Charles Ernest Perkins, secamtf son of the Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Perkins* Sedberg. Yorkshire, England. The bridesmaids were Miss Dorothy Corney (sister of the bride) and Miss Myra Stohr. The Rev. Harold S. Perkins' (Sydenham Congregational Church),' brother of the bridegroom, was best man, and Mr. Sydney Robb (Mangapehi) groomsman. The Rev. T. 11. Roseveare officiated, assisted by Rev. 11. S. Perkins.