PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 272, 9 April 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. C. H. Collins lias left on a tripto Australia, and will be away three or four weeks. The condition of Mr. Cecil Cray is considerably better. It will, however, be some days before he will be about again. Mr. Fred Hooker returned to New Plymouth yesterday, after a twelve months' tour of England and the Continent. Mr. .J. Liddel Kelly and his wife, who •have been staying a few weeks in NewPlymouth, left last night by the boat for Auckland. The death is reported from Dunedinof Mr. J. T. Wright, one of the founders of Wright, Stephenson, and Co.. aged eighty-flve years. Mr. Lan ?. Grant, who has been ou the staff of Messrs. Koy and Nicholson for the past five years, luis been appointed to the charge of Messrs. Weston and Weston's Tnglewood branch. Hi* will leave for Inglewood at the end of the month. The Rev. Father Malov, who has been associated with the Roman Catholic Church at New Plymouth for some time past, leaves for Europe on Saturday next on a visit to bis sister, Countess Musil von Mollenbrnck. and lier husband, who is the Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople. The Rev. W. A. Burley, M.A.. left Hawera yesterday morning for Ponsonby, where he will be in charge of theMethodist Church. Before leaving he was entertained at a farewell social In- members of the local Methodist Church mid presented with a volume of poems ami a purse of sovereigns. Mr. Pearce, M.P., stated at Moumaliaki on Monday that he did not wish to blow his own trumpet, but if it liaii not been for the efforts he made and the fight be put up, Moumahnki State Farm would not be in existence to-day, as a previous Administration intended to convert it into a prison farm. Constable Wade, who was shot ant! dangerously wounded during the Waihi trouble, lias returned to Wellington, ami was able to resume duty at Mount Cook ■Police Station on Monday. Constable ■ Wade is well on the way to recovery, although all efforts to extract the bullet have failed. He has been assigned to .general inquiry work in connection with the Mount Cook district.