PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Th« death took place at Los Angeles of Sir Joseph Dubuc, ex-Chief Justice of Manitoba.

It i.s understood tlmt Mr. J. (.". Morey will lie a candidate for the vacancy oil the Now Plymouth Borough Council. Mr. \V. 10. Burton, of Auckland, has been appointed a stipendiary magistrate. He will take up duty in Central Otago.

Sir I'ufus Isaacs, wlu> was made a baron shortlv a'fter his elevation to the bench as Chief Justice, has taken the title of Lord Reading, the town which he represented in Parliament. 'Hie Hon. .). A. Millar, interviewed in Auckland yesterday, said that 111.; statement that he intended to resign his seat in the near future was incorrect, lie did not intend to resign, but he said he was not certain as to whether lia would contest the next election or not. says a Press Association message.

Constable ]). A. Mclean, who for the past two years has been a member of the. New Plymouth police force, has been promoted to take charge of the police station at Russell. He will leave to take up his new duties In a few days. Constable McLean has been very popular during his stay in New Plymouth, and he will leave many friends. The death occurred at Auckland on Tuesday of_Mr. Daniel Birrell McDonald, an old business man of Auckland. Mr. McDonald, who was in his 72nd year, came to Auckland many vears am." He. was at 011 c time in the police force at Otago, and later went in for mining. He then came to Auckland, and was one, of the oldest brokers on the Auckland Kxchange.

A London cablegram reports the death of Karl Cawdor and Viscount Cross. Lord Cawdor, who was 43 yeais of n«e, succeeded to the title only two years ago. Lord Cross, who was 90 years cf age, was a well-known Conservative politician, ne was Home Secretary from 1574-IKSO and 1883-1886, and Secretary for India lßßf}-]Hf)2. Ho \va& the first Viscount.

Sir AY. 11. liailey. one of the promoters of the fillip Canal. whose death announced at the ape of 75/ was head of the engineering works of Messrs. W. IT. Railey and Co., of SaWord, and president and director of many societies and concerns. Sir William, when asked how lie managed to do so nnicli. said: "I am never tired. I have worked so hard during my life that I have never had time to become fatigued." He began work at six in the morning and worked until late every night. A pioneer settler, Mr William Lawrence, of Mangimaire, near Pahiatua, died last week. The deceased was horn in London, and v.'ns a Crimean war veteran, having seen service when he was 20 year-, of age. Tie arrived in Wellington 111 18.">7, in the sailing ship Southern Cioms, and carried 011 Ihe occupation of <! sawmiller in the earlv days, having u plant at Whit»ma»'s Valley for 12 years. -After leaving the Hull he went, to the W airarapa in 1880, taking up his residence in Carterton, where lie lived for about 1:3 3ears. Twenty years ago he l"ft Carterton and st a Hod'a not her sawmill at I'aliiiratahi, near Kaitokc. .Afterwauls he went to MaiiaXaii, on the \\ est Coast of the North Island, and carried 011 his occupation of sawmiller. From there he went to Newman. Kketahnna. sawmilling, ami afterwards to lla11111a. where hj" sold his plant i-onij sewn \ours ago. He had since lived a retired life -• i Manga 111aire.