PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 258, 30 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At Eltham on Thursday evening, Mr J. llcslop, who is leaving on a trip to England shortly, was enterta.ined by his friends and presented with a travellingrug.

Mr. and Mrs. 11. D. Moss, who are leaving Taruriitangi for Tataraimaka, where Mrs. Moss lias been appointed head mistress, were last week entertained by some fifty or sixty residents of the district rtt it social evening at the l'QduWnre of Mrs. D. ftreenaway. Mrs. Moss, who has had charge of the Tarurutiingi scliool for the past seven years, was presented with an eider down quilt and some silver spoons and forkß, whilst Mr. Moss, who had gratuituously looked after the telephone bureau since its installation, some two years ago, was the recipient of a silver mounted pipe. The presentations were made by Mr, E. Dixon.

A very pleasant surprise was sprung 6n Miss Massey, daughter of the Prime Minister, when at the congratulatory deputy-mayor, on behalf of many friend') presented the young lady with a' very handsome gold bracelet to commemorate her birthday and visit to Westport. The Prime Minister, in reply, thanked the donors for the exceedingly fine gift, He said he had no idea, when mentioning at the Murchison show that it was his daughter's birthday, that the outcome would have been a present to his daughter. Miss Massey was, added the Prime Minister, the age of his political career, having been born the year he was first returned to Parliament. He humorously added that she was a born politician. The death occurred at Milton on Saturday of Mr. William M'Clymont, in his eighty-second year. The deceased was i native of Kirkcudbright. Scotland, wliero he was married in 1863, and, accompanpanied by his wife and child, eame to New Zealand in the ship Denny in lM.j, arriving at Port Chalmers. They immediately proceeded to Milton, where the deceased continued to reside. He obtained employment as tailor's cutter at Stewart's Manchester House, which position he held to the time of his retirement. Ho took no part in local politics, but was in his younger days an enthusiast on the volunteer movement. Mr. M'Clymont leaves a family of three daughters and five sons (all married). There are also 20 grandchildren, Mr. D. D. Braham, who succeeds Dr. I'\ W. Ward as editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, is a distinguished' English journalist. He was a scholar of New College, Oxford, passing from the University to the staff of The Times, on which he sewed for sixteen years. He worked as a correspondent in Berlin, Constantinople, and St. Petersburg, went on frequent missions to other parts of the Continent, and made a comprehensive tour of the Par East. Eventually he succeeded Sir Valentnie Chirol in the very responsible post of Foreign Editor. Mr. ("!. E. Buckle, late editor of the Times, in a letter to Mr. Braham, says:—"Liberal in sentiment and tradition, but imbued with strong Imperial feeling, and thoroughly alive to the interaction of foreign policy and the ideals of the great Dominion's, you have a special claim for conducting one of the powerful journals of the Commonwealth."