PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr C. J. I'urr will again contest thtt .Auckland mayoralty. The ltev. Joshua Jones, Anglican ministnr oi Lower Hutt, hag resigned. ' wm " f this morning for Ohmtchurch, 011 a fortnight's holiday. trank Hales returned to trail. ° Utl ' by ' Uat aight ' B ' x P reM The death occurred at Hjilcombp on Wednesday of an old resident, Mr. E. 11. Schwasa, aged 82 years. Mr, T. M. Wilford, M.P., will i n all probability be a candidate for the Mayoralty of Wellington at the election next month. Miss i. fcmith, for some years the popular teacher of the Kaimiro School, left for Wellington a day or two ago, en route to England and Germany. The death occurred on Tucsdav of one of Feilding'j oldest settlers, in the pe--son of Mr. Peter Thomson, who had been ailing for a considerable time. The late Mr. Thomson was 72 years of age and came to New Zealand 48 years ago) settling in Keilding ten years later. The Hon. W. H. Herrics leaves Wellington on Monday .for Taranaki. H» will attend the big native meeting at Parihaka on Wednesday, March 18. He will stop at Hawera on the journey up, and will visit Opunake and New Ply. mouth, returning to Wellington on Tlitarsday. At the Oddfellows' district meetlngat Eltham yesterday, the Provincial De-puty-Grand Master, Bro. A. Melville, ot Kaponga, was elected Grand Master; P.G. Bro. E. H. Bellringcr, Deputy-Grand Master; P.P.G.M. Bro. F. ,1. Brabant, District Warden. P.G.M. Bro. C. E. Bellringer, P.P.G.M.'s Bros. F. A. Moore and W. Snowdon will represent the District at the Biennial Moveable Conference at Wanganui in May. Sir Newton James Moore, Agent-fleneral in London for West Australia for the past three years, and for five years prior to that State Premier, arrived in Auckland from Sydney by % the Maheno on Sunday. Sir Newton has been on a visit to his native place for fpur weeks, and Ims. more recently, spent a week in Melbourne. He proceeded to Uotorua, and will return in time to caich the Makura on Saturday for Vancouver. .Major (i. S. Richardson, of the New .Zealand StiifT Corps, upon completion of a two years' .course of study at the Staff College, Camberley, England, has been attached to the Department of the Director of Staff Duties, War Office. Major M. M. Gardner, Royal Now Zealand Artillery, lias recently completed a. two years' course of study at the Staff College, Camberley, and is now attached to the Ordnnneo Depot at Aldershot. Mr. Godfrey D. Doulton, a clever New Zealander, recently met his death in a machinery acidcnt at Guadalajara, Mexico. The deceased was a student at the Auckland University College from 1891 to 1893, and was at the Thames School of Mines for the two years following. He started active mining work on the goldhclds of the Auckland district, and was employed by various companies in New Zealand for five years. Ho left in 1000 for America, and took charge of the mill at the Camp Bird mine, where he was superintendent and metallurgist for two years. He held a high position in mining circles in America, and wrote some well-informed articles in the technical press on the regeneration of working cyanide solutions.