PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 295, 6 May 1913, Page 8

PERSONAL.

A Lomiou enblegram states that Mr. K:i!iisiiy MaciJomild Ji:is returned from

Air. ('. \V". Govett will leave next, month on u six mouths' visit to England. Mr. F. M. R. Fisher did not leave Melbourne on Saturday, but lie will sail by the Niagara to-day. The death is reported of .Sir Tat ton ] Sykcs, a well-known Yorkshire landowner, at the age of S7 years. The Duchess of Connaught passed a fair night and the slight improvement in her condition was maintained. Mr. R. Ellis, who )ms been away on holiday leave, has resumed his duties ns clerk to the Taranaki County Council. Mr. R. W. ltobson. formerly editor cf the "Wairarapa Daily Times," has resigned the position of manager of the "Timaru Post." He intends proceeding to Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. W. Ewing leave to-day on a holiday visit to Auckland and Whangarei. While in Auckland, Mr. Ewing will attend the session of the Masonic Grand Lodge.

Among the deceased estates certified for stamp duty last month are the following Taranaki entries:—James W. Batten, £s,(ii)l; James Lowery £1,714; Louis Knuckey, £5lO. On a re-count of the votes for the election of Wellington City Council, Mr. E. Tregear secured the last place among the successful candidates, replacing Mr. E. Cohen, who was elected on the nipt count.

Mr. E. G. Skelton, manager of the local branch of the New Zealand Express Company, who is under transfer to Invercargill, was yesterday made the recipient of a presentation from the dtaff at New Plymouth. Miss M. J. Mackay, who is leaving the Post and Telegraph service to take up a position on the Taranaki Herald, was yesterday made the recipient of a slight token of esteem by her associates in the Government Department.

Sir James Mills is a passenger by the Niagara, from Sydney to Auckland, also the cricket team for America, which consists of Mayne, Crawford, Campbell, Down, Emery, Mailey, Collins, Cody, Bardsley, Macartney, Diamond and Amott.

A London cablegram reports that the Hon. Roderick! Ward, second son of Lord Dudley, a former Governor-General of Australia, who was thrown fromWiis horse while hunting on April 7, has regained consciousness, and is progressing favourably.

Mr. Logan, postmaster at Waipukurau, has, after a thirty-seven-,, years' service, been grinted three months' holiday on full pay, after which he will be retired on superannuation. Mr. Logan intends to settle somewhere in the Auckland "'istrict.

Mr. A. Healy has resigned his position on the staff 'of Mr. Newton King, in order to take up farming in the Otaki district. On the eve of severing his connection with the firm, he was presented by the staff with a travelling rug and a case of pipes. A Christchurch telegram states that Mr. W. M. Nelson, engineer to the Christchurch Tramway Board, has resigned his position, and has rejoined the staff of the Brisbane Tramway Company, and Mr. E. P. Turner, the power-house superintendent, has been appointed to undertake th 6 .immediate supervision of the other engineering departments, as well as his own.

The death is announced of Mr. James Dalgleish, one of the oldest and most respected setMers "n the county of.Akaroa. He was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1861 he married and came out to New Zealand. After staying in Wellington for about a jear, lie went to Banks Peninsula, and resided at Duvauchelle. In 1867 he bought Mr. Vanstone's sawmill at Le Bon's and settled down in that district. For some forty years he was identified with ,Le Bon's in all its interests, being chairman for many years of the Road Board, in the formation of which he was chiefly instrumental, and also a trustee of the recreation reserve. He was also one of the first members of the Akaioa Council, serving a term as chairaian, and was a member of the old Lake Ellesmere Trust. Deceased leaves a widow, three sons, two daughters, and nine grandchildren The Wanganui Herald publishes the following anent Mrs. W. Alluin, who died in New Plymouth last week in her 83rd year:—The,late Mrs. Allum will be remembered in Wanganui by a host of friends as Mrs. "William Earle, who with her husband came to Wanganui in the fifties of the last century. After a few years' residence here they removed to Sale, in Gippsland, Victoria, but after a short stay there they returned to Wanganui: Both Mr. and Mrs. Earle'were earnest and sincere workers in the. old Wesleyan Church in Ridgway Street, and not a few middle-aged men and women of this town will remember with love and gratitude instruction received in the Sunday School and unvaried hospitality extended to all at the home of the Earles in St. Hill Street, and Taylorville. Not only as workers in the Church to which they were joined, but as doers of good in the community whenever, wherever, and to whomsoever it eould be done, was their unfailing motto. When the Waimate Plains were settled after the war, Mr. and Mrs. Earle, with their adopted children, removed to Xormanby, and afterwards to Midliirst. where they opened a storo and took up land. Mr. Earle did not, however, live long in his new home, and some years after his.death, Mrs. Earle went to reside in New Ph-mouth, where she was married to Mr. William Allum, an esteemed resident of that town, who predeceased her. The late Mrs. Allum was a native of Oxfordshire, England, and leaves brothers there and abroad, and a sister, Mrs. William L. England, of Hastings, to mourn their loss. ••"■*'