PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 285, 24 April 1913, Page 8

PERSONAL.

At. .St. Miiry'M Church ycsterd.iy Morning .Mr. Waring S'i'.xloii ;uul .Miss Alice Cutfield were luiiti ! ia iiiatriniom. A Press Asjioci;: • 'uii wire from Kitliam announces tlifi death of (ieorge Moir, an old resident,, at the »ge of 78 years. Mr. "N'iiloiitiuo Klemiii,;', I'nionist number for tlw' Henley Division of Oxfordshire, has resigned liis seat in Parliament.

It is reported, says a London cablegram, that the Prince of Wales will make an extended tour of Canada earlv in 1014.

The Board of Education yesterday afternoon passed a vote of sympathy with 'Mr. Jas. Sanderson, architect to the Board, in the loss he has sustained by the death of his wife.

At the Hoard of Education meeting yesterday the following resignations were accepted:—Mrs. Dupree, assistant Inglewood; Miss M. Bollinger, assistant, Huiakama and Miss. D. Smith, assistant, Cardiff.

Mr. H. D. Bedford, ex-M.P., who stood against the Hon. J. A. Millar at the last election, is reported to have joined the United Labor Party. Mr. Millar, it is understood, is joining the Government forces.

Mr. G. F. Prosser, late of Waitara, was, out of CO applicants, selected as the travelling representative for the llangitikei Sawillers' Co-operative Association, Ltd.. with its head office at Taihape.—Mail.

A London cablegram reports the death of Lord Gorell of Brampton, the first baron, at the age of 05 years. Lord Gorell was a judge in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice from 1892 to 1908.

Tress Association advice from Napier records the death of Captain M. N. | Bower, aged 87. Captain Bower was trained at Woolwich Military Academy, and afterwards served in the 13th Light Dragoons. lie saw considerable service I in the Maori war, and was appointed Town Clerk at Napier in 1874, a position he held until a few years ago, when failing health necessitated his retirement. The death of Mr. John T. Stewart, which occurred at Wanganui on Saturday, occasioned very widespread regret. Born in 1827 at Rothesay, Scotland, he passed a life that from first to last was particularly strenuous and useful. The Wanganui Herald says of him: "Though lie was one of the most modest, even retiring of men, he was yet a man of many parts, lie was a most delightful and * entertaining raconteur when he could be drawn 'out of his shell.' He had a fine gift in sketching and painting. As a scientist, his name is held in honor all over the Dominion. He was a liberal patron of the fine arts, and gave generous help to all societies for the furtherance of music, arts and crafts. He was an enthusiastic student of astronomy and of meteorology. * He was a members of every local intsitution in connection with the above arts and sciences, and it would be hard to estimate the service he has rendered them in work, in financial support, and in spientifip or artistic knowledge. . Ever a lover of the beautiful, he was also a keen member of the Beautifying Society, and to it he was equally prodigal of his time and talents, fie was a trustee of the Wanganui Museum, and to that institution he gave the most ungrudging and public-spirited service."

The death of Mr. Samuel Vaile re-

moves one of Auckland's most prominent business men. For some years past he

had taken no active part in business, but he was a most regular attendant of

Chamber of Commerce Council meetings, and his views on commercial matters always commanded respect. He paid particular attention to the zone system of railway fares, which he sought to introduce into New Zealand, but without success, although it was after he had formulated a scheme and had discussed it with a Hungarian statesman visiting Auckland that the system was adopted on the Austro-Hungarian railways. Mr. Samuel Vailc was bom in London in 1828, arriving in Auckland in 1843. In ISSO he sailed for San Francisco, but was left 011 Pitcairn Island with a party, the ship sailing away and leaving the passengers ashore stranded. Eventually Mr. Yaile made his way to Honolulu, where he stayed until 1831, when he returned to Auckland and established the firm of fl. and I. 11. Vaile. He l<?ft

for England in 1804 and was subsequently elected a members of the Investors' Institute, the l'oyal Horticultural Society, and the Society of Arts. He again returned to Auckland in 1870 and established the linn of Samuel Vaile and Sons. It was some years later that he first directed his attention to the zone system of railways, and such faith had

be in his theory that he offered to lease the Auckland section of the New Zealand railway system. This offer was refused, He twice stood for Parliament, but was defeated on both occasions. In I'JOO he was president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and he visited Sydney in an official capacity at the time of the inauguration of the Commonwealth, He was a voluminous contributor to the press and wrote a number of booklets and pamphlets.