PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 258, 22 March 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cablegram hom I'ome states thai the Pope has attended the first mass since Uis illness.

ilr. C. li. Mathews, chief clerk of the »Tnstiee Department and an inspector under the Prisons Act. is oil a visit of inspection to the New Plymouth gaol. Amongst the s.s. Rarawa's numerous passengers on Thursday night to Onelutujra were Mr. and Mrs. A. C'. Collins (en route to Sydney), Messrs. Xewton King- and I!. Cock.

Sergeant-Major Bezar, who served in the laranaki War and also in Crimea and India with tile 57th Regiment, is I revisiting New Plymouth after an absence of 50 vears.

The death occurred in Wellington on Wednesday of Mr. Thomas James Porter, for twenty years manager of the I Oak Hotel, iisred forty-eight years. He leaves a wife and son. At the meeting of the Taranaki County Council this week a vote of sympathy with Mr. W. Bewiey in his recent very sad bereavement was passed. Mr. Bewiey was chairman of the Council from lS!):j to ISQG.

Mr. Felix McGuire, ex-M.H.R. for Ilawora, is leaving Taranaki shortly to take up his residence in Auckland, where he has large property interests. He has just disposed of his homestead, ''Mount Royal," Okaiawa, to Mr. J. 11. Sellars. The friends of Mr. Oscar Symes will lie glad to learn that more reassuring news has been received with regard to the state of his health. He is, however. still under tlie doctor's care at the hospital, Te Kuiti (says the Patea Press).

A quiet wedding took place in the Te Henui Church on Thursday, when Mr. G. W. Slade. of New Plymouth, was married to Miss Alice Maud Boulton, daughter of Mrs. Bonlton, of Devon street. The Rev. J. A. Kempthorne was tlie oll'iciating clergyman.

Tlic (.'azette announces the appointment of tin: following to 1»\ medical inspectors ,if velum's: —Adti (Jfrtrnd;' Pat-t'v.-nn. M.1!., Bachelor of Surgery; Elizabeth ('atlici-ini' Cnun, M.l'.. iiiic-holoi- of iSuriii'i'v; (Jiwiro Lav.' Cawkwell, M.8.. J-.-lu'lor of Kur-rrry; Walter Kerr Hislop. M.li.. i;.-scii;-loi- of Surgery.

The funeral of the late Mr. W. Richii>•,!<. which (ouk place at Te Tlenui on Thursday was largely attended. Rev., d .A. Kempthorno officiated at the qrnve side, and tile t.all-beams were Jle.ssvs. IV. I'erhain ".:l(1 I\. Avery (representing I'- - ilo.'d Cricket Club). !). Pike and ('!. Hawkins (Star Football Club). E. Sole ami .T. Rlewnian (Avenue lioad Can! Club) with all of which insii! 1 ul ions (i:r dicca-'-'d had been very closely connected.