PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 16, 19 June 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. Oliver Samuel, M.L.C., of New Plymouth, is at present on a visit to Wellington.

It is officially announced that Sir Robert Chalmers has been (appointed Governor of Ceylon. A London cablegram announces the death of the Rev. Samuel Augustus Harnett, Canon of Bristol.

Mr. John Gilmour, of Manaia, who has been on a week's visit to New Plymouth, returned home this morning. Sir Louis Mallet, Assistant UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed British Ambassador at the Porte.

A London cablegram states that Petty Officers Cream and Lashly, of the Terra Nova, have been recommended for the Albert Medal for heroism in the Antarctic.

A London cablegram reports that A. 11. Broadhead, of Canterbury College, secured first-class honours in the, second division of the .Classical Tripos 1 in his second year at Cambridge. Mr. Basil Thomson, son of the late Archbishop of York, has' succeeded Sir Melville Macnaughten as head of the Criminal Investigation Department, generally known as Scotland Yard. Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, Inspector-Gen-eral of Hospitals, writing to the chairman of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Board, states that he hopes to be in New Plymouth shortly with the Minister of the Department (Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes). >

The Rev. A. W. Payne, M.A., who for the past two and a half years hag been residing in Ashurst, a 8 vicar of the Pohangina parochial district, has been nominated to the vacant parish of Patea by the Board of Diocesan Nominators, and will be leaving to take up his new work in about two months' time.

Considerable regret was expressed in Hastings yesterday, telegraphs the Dominion's correspondent, at the death of Mr. R. W. Halse, which took place at the Napier Hospital after a few days' '

illness. The late Mr. Halse was born'in New Plymouth in 1806, and after being educated at the Primrose School, entered the service of the New Plymouth branch of the Bank of New Zealand in 1885. He was in turn stationed at Marton and Woodville.and in IfHX) was appointed manager of the branch at Hastings, a position which lie held until two years ago, when he resigned to enter into business on his own account. Possessed of a genial and cheerful disposition, the late Mr. Halse was very popular with all with whom lie came in contact, andhis integrity in business matters made him highly esteemed. The deceased took a keen interest in all branches of sport, especially in regard to bowling and Rugby football, being an . ex-president of the Hastings Bowling Club, and an ex-member of the Hastings Rugby Sub-Union. Mr. Halse \vn>t the first captain of the Hastings Fir> Police. A widow and four children, two boys and two girls, are left to mourn their loss.