PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 14 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Queen of fioumania has been sue' cessfuly operated on for cataract. The Kcv. J. W. Burton and Mrs. BurThursda Urned t° New Plymouth oa.

Mr. M'Donald, engineer to GisborntHarbor Board, has been appointed engineer to the Patea Harbor Board

There passed away at Pahiatua o» Tuesday night, an old colonist in tha person of Mr. Joseph Dean, who died ai the age of 71.

The Rev. Fred. Hewlett, brother of Maurice Hewlett, the novelist, is going to Kumanoto, Japan, to spend hi* life at the leper station. On the occasion of his visit to Masterton General Sir lan Hamilton is to k* entertained at a reunion of South Africa* campaigners, a number of whoa served under him in the Boer War.

A Hawera message reports that Mr. B. Rielly, a well-known resident, and secretary of the Hnwera Bowling Club, died suddenly this morning while working in his garden. He leaves a grown-up family. The following teachers in the Whangamoinona district were successful in the recent teachers' examinations-. Passed for Cla3s D: William C. Bicheno, Stanley M. Mills; partial pass for Claw D, Irene M'Mcekan. A movement is afoot at Ross to rai» funds for the purpose of erecting a memorial to perpetuate the memory of the late 'Darby" Thomson, who recently lost his life on Mount Cook. The deceased was a native of Robs.

The Hon. W. H. llerries, Minister for Railways, has wired to the Town Clerk, of New Plymouth that he will arrive" here on Wednesday evening next from Paribaka, and stn.r at the White Hart Hotel. Next morning he will leave by mail train for Wellington. Mr. W. J. Leversedge, who has managed the Whangarei branch of the Bank of New South Wales since its inception, is being transferred to the managership of the Stratford brunch of the bank. Mr. F. M'Govern, of the Newton branch, will succeed Mr. Leversedge at Whangarei.

It is stated on what is believed to b» good authority, says the Auckland Star,. that Dr. Buck will not go unopposed t» the poll at the next elections in the Northern Maori district. Two probable candidates montioned are Mr. Hauraii Manning, eldest Bon of the late Judge Manning, and Mr. Leopold Busby, of Pukepoto,

i. Nelson telegram states that tht Prime Minister arrived in Nelson from. Havelock yesterday afternoon,, and. was tendered a civic reception, at which. there was a large attendance. Mr. MasBey will be in the district until Tuesday, when he leaves for the West Coasts He will delay his political address i* Nelson until Monday night. Inspector James Hendry, of the Southland Education Education Board, who has resigned after a period of service extending over twenty-eight yearß, wa» made the subject of u complimentary resolution at the last meeting of theboard. The motion expressed regret at his retirement, and accepted the resignation, to take effect from December ZUt r li) 14, but relieves Mr. Hendry from thai duty on June 30th, 1914.

The death is announced from Washing, ton of Mr <3«orge Westinghouse, the great engineer, inventor, and manufacturer. The late Mr Westinghouse wa* born in 184(1, and in 1864-5 was an assistant cngineor in the United State* Navy. His first notable invention was * device in 1865 for replacing derailed cars, and in 1808 he his inveation.of the air brake, known every whereas the Westinghouse brake. He it wae who first applied Dneumatic devices toswitching and signalling, greatly increasing efficiency. He aho utilised electricity in this connection, and thus becameinterested in the development of electrical machinery, and he introduced and developed in America alternating-current machinery. He backed Tesla financially and otherwise in developing the induction motor, making possible the utilisation of alternating current for power purposes. He built the first ten greatdynamos at Niagara, and for the Metropolitan Railway in London. The supremacy of Pittsburg in the manufacture of iron, steel and glass was established largely as the result of Lis devising a system for controlling natural gas and conveying it through nipesior long distances, so that it could be used as fuel in homes, mills, and factories. He died president of 30 or more corpora*'on - itn «n aggregate capital of over 120,000,000 dollars, and giving work te> about 50,000 employees. .