PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 278, 16 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The English Primate ii suffering from a severe attack of influenza.

The death is reported from London of Mr. Herbert Drnce, wljp was prominent in the Druce case.

Mr. Horace Packe, yicar of St. John's (Inverctvrgill) has be'en appointed Archdeacon of the Southland district.

Mr. R. 51..-Simpson; general manager: for New Zealand of the Phoenix Assnrauce Company, ia on a visit to New Plymouth.

Mr. Thomas Finlayson, partner rind managing director at Auckland, for Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, died yesterday, aged 05 years. t

Mr. D. A. Strachan, M.A., at preseit Inspector of Schools in the Marlborough district, was yesterday appointed As-sistant-Inspector under the Hawke's Bay Education Board.—Press Association. A letter was received in Palmorstonn North on Saturday last from Si* William Hall-Jones, lute High Jjaimissioner for New Zealand, London, ; n which the writer says lie is 1 covin;; Lo.i lo.i (o)New Zealand on the 20tl\ of next month. Sir William says lie will be glad to get hack to the more free and wholesoma life of the colonies, although Lady HallJ •lone/*' and his own stav in London hai been made very enjoyable.

The resignation of Dr. Sliand, professor of natural'philosophy at the Otago University, was received; at yesterday's nice,tin» of the University Council, the -•< resignation to date from Mareh 31, 1914. Reference was made by several members < to the splendid work . Dr. Sluuid has performed in the University since his ap■pointfeent in 1870. A motion of ypreciition, of J)r. Shand's valuable 'services will be proposed at a subsequent meeting. Intimation of the resignationw,ill be forwarded to the Otago Presby-

terian Church Board of Property, with l whom the appointment of a new pro* ;fessor lies, subject to the concurrence of the Presbyterian Synod of Otago and Southland. 1 *.?

Mr. R. J. Scoltock, a well-known resident of the West Coast, died in the_* Westport Hospital a few davs ago, aged-"-77. He was a native of London, ai}4 T had been over 50 years in New Zea-i land. On the voyage out his vessel was shipwrecked at Amsterdam Island, in the Indian Ocean. After fourteen day® spent on the island, the party were (picked up bv whalers and' taken to .Mauritius, where 31r. Scoltock got air Australian bound vessel. He larded in , Melbourne, and after some years' residence in different parts of Australia,

lie was attracted to Hokitika at the (time of the great rush in 1865.' For some time Mr. Sol toe k followeJ eoldhiining in New Zealand. His private residence was in Roefton sin?c the year 1885. For the last thrc* renrs, he had- resided in Westport ivith his son, Mr. R. Scoltock.

A noted pastoralist and philanthropist passed away last week in the person of Mr. Albert Augustus Dangar, of Baroona, Whittington, New South Wales. Deceased was educated at, Newcastle, at a private school, afterwards at the Truro Oram roar School, , Cornwall, England, and later- fa Ham- ' burg. After finishing his scholastic course he entered the British merchant service, spending three years as a midshipman. After leaving the sen he went to his father's station at Host-

—ok i"uv Uralla. Subsequently (nays the 'Sydney Telegraph") he acquired a thorough knowledge o ( station life in Queensland and New fnitli Wales, on his father's properties fa 18(13 he tooic over-the management of Yallaroi. Poomhah. Oostwvok. and other smaller staf'on«. and i'i lHflO acquired Paroona from the Lnnmch famiß The late Mr. Dan""iv win a breeder of Suffolk Pmvlt horses, Shorthorn eattle. Rni i"evino sheep. He was n generous benefaetor In the town and. district of S;nstieto'i. The magnificent, cathedral-liko Ai;ir'i<"tn Ch«reh, which has just been completed at a cost of £>.>.ooo was his cift. The Dnnsar Colta»e Hospital,

eostina aho"t £800(1. was also a gift of ,We.-iwd and his wife In the people of Hi" Sinsleton district. It wos mainly, owinor to Mr. Daii'j-ii\ exertions that i''o nvt Bushmen's Contingent was sent to tlif .African war. He was a s'rono Imperialist, mid was one of those who "neh gave £10.0(10 towards the prpftnonirht fttnd. Deceased married, in lSfii, M"i-v Phoebe TCottse. the third daiifbter of the late Mr. Edwin Rouse, of I'ouse Hill, near Windsor.. "iMfs. DfinTar survive? her husband toffettrer -with throe sons ant] four daughters.