PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss llujiua Um-kman;, is to appear at Govern tiardeu :u •■fiirsifal." ■Mr T. I{. Southttll, formerly of Taraan.l at 'present ol Wellington, ts in New Plymouth. The Hon. W. H. Herri,.g, Minister of ai wa}H, wi.l visit New Plymouth on March lb, alter attoaubg a met nc of natives ut i'arihaka. The Evening IW, sa)s it ; s rumor that Mr T. C. A. Hislo,, wi.l be the Go* eminent candidate for the Wellington Suburbs seat, Dunedin reports the death of Mr John R. Moonson, of Port Chalmers, an exS5 ' "rived •bj tho John 1A lokhtfV in 1848, A London message reports the death of Mr 1 ownsend Martin, an American millionaire banker, who was long actively interested in East End slum work. Mr A. A. .Mailey, the googly bowler with the Australian cricket team, is engaged as a cartoonist on the stair of the Sydney Referee, his sketches appearing under the pen name of 'Bosic!" All eight recommendations tu '.he new Hoard of Agriculture are noi, m the hands of the Minister, but the only appointment announced is that of Mr ,1. (5. Wilson as chairman; the others have to be communicated with first. The weddiug of Dr. Muwson to Miss Delpratt, daughter of the general nmuuger of the Broken llill I'ronrietary Mine, takes place in Melbourne on March ,11. Dr. Mawson is a ha\ing been born in Bradford in ISB2. The new directors of the Hank of New Zealand, to replace Messrs. D. J. Nathan, of Wellington, and Milne, of Oamaru, the Government nominees, will be the Hon. T. Fergus, Dunedin, and Mr Tt. W. Kane, V* cllington. Mr Kane wan in th» Service Bank during all his business life, and was chief inspector for the North Island when he retired last year. Mrs Jsobel Rust, who (with the exception of Mr Hobert Mair) was the oldest resident of Wlnngftrol, ktelv died at the age of 85 years, Mrs Bust ftrrived in Auckland by the ship .Joseph in; teller, in 1554, and she was married during the same year to Mr John Stewart Itust in St. Andrew's Church, Auckland. In the early days of Whangarei, when Maori troubles were acute, .Airs Rust had often to securely lock her doors and hide her children in fear of viait3 from marauding natives. Mrs Itust is survived by her only son, Mr A. M. Rust (head teacher of the public scliojl ''t' Hikuraiigi), five daughters, andniac.r grandchildren and great-grandchildren.'