PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 162, 8 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Right Honorable W. 't\ Massey is inakiiiy satisfactory progress towards , recovery. Colonel Sir Edward Ward »ill shortly retire from his position as ivruument L'ndcr-Sccretury at the I'.nu&i. War Oilice. The iu-alih of Mrg dohn \ le, senr., of I'tihiaLua, wlio lias reached tie great age of !I7 years, is causing in.- fiimds anxiety. I.ady Russell and her d.ny .iter, Miss V. Kusscil, of Fhixmerc, Hasting,,,, intend leaving for England at the end of February. Dr. .T. Renfrew While, n graduate of Otago University, has been appointed bouse surgeon at the Royal National Orthopocdie Hospital, London. Mr H. B. Held, late of the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, and now ( of the Magistrate's Court, Oaniarn, is , spending a short holiday in .New Plymouth. The death occurred at Auckland on Saturday evening of Mr Robert Salmon, a well-known and highly-respected citizen of Auckland. The deceased was a prominent business man and took a keen interest in polities. Mr. Murslou -1. Heywood, district manager in Auckland of the Government Life Insurance Department, died on Monday morning from pneumonia. He was n son I Mr. J. Barnes Heywood, formerly secretary to tbo Trea'sury, but now resident in London. The Rev. J. A. Kempthornc, who for the past four years lias been curate in charge, of the Te Hciiui portion of St. Mary's parish, will leave to-day for Inglewood, where lie will take up the duties of vicar. Mr. Kempthorne wag presented last night with n token of goodwill from a few of his friends. Mr. ]O. 1\ Bunnv, Mayor of Lower, Hutt, has been selected' by the 'Re* form party to contest the ,llutt seat at the next elections. Mr. Bunny has consented to stand, making the third to announce his candidature, Mr. T. M. Wilford (the present member) and Mr. Samuel (Reform) being the other two. Mr. R. McNab is now in Wellington, i having returned from 'his farm in Southland, where he has been upending weeks. He intends to return to Southland, and stay there for the remaintier of the summer, -and to go to Sydney in the autumn. Mr. McNab intends to bring out another volume of his history of New Zealand within the next few mouths.

Viscount Kelbnrn'will arrive in Sydney by the R.M.S. Otway at the end of this month, en route to New Zealand, to take command of H.M.S. Pyramid, now stationed in theses waters. Lord Kelbnrn has just completed two years in command of the destroyer Acheron, belonging to the first flotilla of the first fleet, lie will be accompanied bv Ladv Kelbnrn.

The Wanganui Chronicle records the, death of Mrs. Henry Black burn, of Castlecliff, who passed away on Monday morning after ii brief illness, at the age of oa years. The deceased. Who was twico married, leaves behind her her, husband and two sons and two daughters; Mrs. JI. Shaw and' Mrs. W. Evans, of llawardou, Canterbury, Mr. Noel Xicholls (I'almcrston), and Mr. \V. Xicholls (Elthani).

Dr. Truby Kin». who wont to England the oflioial roprosi'iitntivo of tbe Xew Zwiiiiml attend tlm Eiig!iti)i-s[)<>ak'ii]j» Conference on Infantile .Murtulilv hold in I*ndon !

in August, was about'to return to "New Zealand when the last mail left. Since" he, left London Dr. King has been to Vienna, Berlin, and l'nris, and has been

investigating conditions affecting infant health in JJrifain.

A Press Association message front Wellington says that lli- .1. Alan Thomson, ]}.Bi\, a member of the geological .purvey branch pi tin- Minos Deparlmentj' of which he is palaeontologist, has been appointed to succeed the late. Mr A. Hamilton as Dim-tor of the Dominion Museum. Mr Thomson is a native of Otago, and a son of Mr (,'. M. Thomson, M.l'. lie was t!>- first New Zealand Rhodes scholar, being elected in- 1004. A wedding which is probably the first of its kind in Auckland was celebrated at .St. David's' Presbyterian Cliun-li on Friday afternoon by the Rev. •T. M. Saunders, M.A. The 'bride wag Miss Hannah Parry and the bridegroom Mr. Hugh Parry. In addition to tht fact that the lady did not change her name upon entering the marriage state, was the still more iin'npio 'act that Mr. Saunders read the \\hok' service inWelsh.

The dentil oceuned in Wellington on Tuesday of Mr. Edward Maine, formerly of the Cook Islands administration. Mr. Maine, then a ban litter and solicitor in Victoria, went to I!u- C«ok Islands in 18112, and occupied (he position of Registrar of the High Court of the Islands for twenty-one years. His greatest work in his ollicial position was iha codification of all the nativi laws, In Ins long term he served under three ('oinniissi»ners. Major dudgeon, Mr. Moss, and Captain ,1. Klraaa ,S|n,(ll - y -'xM » tin ago he retired, t» return to his home in Victoria, ai-d at the time of |,j s ,i,,,. 1t |, 1|( , , v ., s nn a pleasure trip |„ New Zl-uUiul. The death i s announced of Mi's Dobson, wnlow of the late Mr Edward Dob*;»i (for many voars eliief inutnaer of tant-ilmiyi.at the ago of (12. The lat* Mrs- l)i,l„ 1)n Wi( , married i„ England. Her husband came out („ New Zealand 111 !•'"' ( ' n "-. v '' of the first four shins, and was accompanied by hi s two sons. -Mrs Dohsn,, arrived in 1H,',2. in thc-Fati-ma bringing three other ehildren. FW« children were bom in the colonv .making a family of ten altogether Mr-Geosgi Dobson. en-rineer, hilled l,v( the KellT sail? . .ii the West Coast i„ isiifi; Mr A. I - Dobjon. cilv engineer, of Christchurch; Ladv von ITaast, who died !■• England reeenll-: Mr, Charles Todhunter, at present.residing in Christciureh; vJ ;'; ,l "' i V'' lno,, - i '>''.f-inncr, now in tli* North Tsland; Airs Woedon. now resid"JSt m Inland: Mr RoWt Uolmoii, wh. jiied m _\apier some vent's ago, and wh»had a good deal to .1,, with starting tlia irozei. meat industr-v in this country; -Mrs Trogben, wife of the Inspector-Gen-eral of schools; Mr Herbert Donjon, freezing works engineer at flisborne; and Mr Collet• Bobson, wAn ii at present in Australia.