PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 203, 25 February 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir Arthur Stanley, the new Goverbournl "' • a 9 Rnm ' d at ' lw " The Rev. Colwcll was eleete< president of the New South Wales Method!* Conference .vesterday.-Oa-ble. Joseph Felo, millionaire, single-taxcr, Mid philanthropist, has died «t PhilaSe W York Pre* A«oJution message. The death is announced from Svdnev ol Sfcptiimu Daly., aged 71. Deceased »!"> was a member of the SvdneTS _ Sir .10 8 ,.ph Ward : ,nd Idy Ward ars v hi r r,i \ f,om «*souths t ''gl'tS.r Joseph will deliver a politi--1 «ddr»*« ,n the (iarrkon I'a Thursday night, A Wangamii telegram states that; the i^ B ! A "™ "'™<"> in tow. tin •' m/.V " n U * meM co »»«*ted with tut I.ducation Department. After i tri., {•P"';- river to U . .ehod at l 5 k,M ' l,fi ew »«* «"» to New Plymouth in Ro,i ?,?' Al "', ert sttttes th,,t sl * » Rome (where the is transaating busi»""«'.«onneetion with her Order), and * keeping in the best of health SI, , exported to return to Well ngtoT „ about two months' time. 7 ny . haV ° two «»<lWate» in . CJV" w f ß « ton M»y°™ity--Mi. David McLaren has already accent. S;^ e »7»«tio.. of the United 1 „,- Pa it;.and the candidature of the Hon. J. K.gg being- advocated l,v the Social Democratic Pnrtv.

Ihe death of Mrs. Allan, a Scottish lady, winch occurred in Auckland last December, lias (says a contemporary) attracted a great deal more attention in the land of her birth than it did in the land ol her adoption. Airs. Allan was the only sister to the Perthshire poet Robert Nicoll, who has been described as -Scotland's second Horns." She was in her ninety-third year at the time of her death. She hid lived in •New Zealand for over liftv vein's, and bad reared four daughters' and one sen.

-Mr. Albert !I„war.l. of Devonport Auckland, was last week presented with a silver teapot ami gold medal, stiitablv inscribed, in appreciation of his recent plucky action in rescuing Mr. ,r. prei-f-ott, of Xortheotc, from drowning near the Perry TJuil.lin<-a, Auckland.' The cliairman, i„ making the presentation on behalf ot several Xovtheotc admirers of ■Mr. Howard's action, said this was the fourth occasion on which Mr. llowud hart distinguished himself in rescuing people from drowning. 1 To have lived in the reigns of six sovereign is an experience that falls to the lot of few people. Mv. Charles I'dward O.smond. of Wnllarohha (N'.S.YV ) however, can lay claim to such a record On February 11. at (he residence of Irs (laughter, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, he celehrat' ed his 100 th birthday, lie was horn in Somersetshire, England, 0 n r'ebrtiarv !>, 1814. lie arrived in Australia in 18S1 with his wife and seven children. The voyage lasted six moiitlis. About 300 relatives. Mends anil neighbors took part m Mr. Osmond's birthday celebrations. Tiic.se included his sister-in-law Mrs. (leorgc Osmond, of Paterson, who is 84 years of age. Mr. Osmond is still in possession of all hi ft faculties, mid is able to do gardening.