PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 April 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Ecv. T. G. Robson has left for Hokianga, to ta*e up ibis new duties there. •

At a meeting of the directors of the Bank of New Zealand yesterday, Mr Harold Beauchamn was re-elected chairman.

Mr F. Hull, manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Patea, has received notice of his transfer to Carterton, says the Proas. Mr 0. Strouts, of Dunedin, will succeed Mr Hull at Pr.tcu.

Ac Te Kuiti a meeting of supporters • of the Opposition Partv decided that the late member for Taumanmui, Mr W. T. Jennings, should be invited to contest the Beat at the next election. Mr B. C. Robbins hi* been asked to again stand for the-Tauranga Mayoralty. Mr Robbins, who is well known on this coast, was Mayor of Hawera for a number of years, and is a maa with just the requisite energy to suit the requirements of a growing town like Tauranga. Sub-Lieutenant Prince George of Battenburg, one of the most popular of the New Zealand's offieers, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant (writes the London correspondent of the LytteU ■ ton Times under date of February 18}. Prince George, who is just twenty-one years of age, was promoted sub-lieuten-ant just before the New Zealand sailed ■ a year ago. It is less than nine years since be entered the Royal Naval College at Osborne. He passed out of Dartmouth fourth amongst fifty-three cadets, and after three years as a midshipman tool; first-class certificates in all subjects for his lieutenancy. It is to this that he owes his early advancement. . / He served the. usual period of watchkeeping duty on the New Zealand. . Private advice lias been received in Chri'stchurch that Colonel A. W, Andrew Ims been promoted to the mand of the 14th Mahratta Regime nto India. He is a native of Christchurcu, and was the winner of the first Imperial competitive commission offered to New Zealand. He received his first commission in 1887, and since that time has filled many important ports in the Army of India. He was till recently / '.*sccond in command of the 14th Mahrattas, of which regiment he has just been appointed commandant. Colonel Andrew is ono of the best authorities in India on musketry, and for a time commanded one of the best musketry schools there. He is the author of "Rifle Fire," which is a. standard book on the subject. Colonel Andrew will arrive in New Zealand on « furlough on April 10th. There was a large gathering of Orangemen at the Queen Street Methodist schoolroom on Thursday evening, to hid farewell to the Rev. Bro. R. J. LiddelU on the eve of his departure for Timaru. P.M. Bro. McGahey presided, and in a eulogistic speech referred to Mr Liddell's work in the Lodge and the high esteem in which he was held by the brethren. He then presented the guest of the evening with a handsome marbl« timepiece, and expressed wishes for Mr Liddcll's success in The South. In responding, Mr Liddell said that some of the happiest hours he had. spent in Nen> Plymouth had been in tho Orange Lodge. He regretted leaving such a congenial sphere, but would use bis utmost endeavors to further the interests of the institution in the South. The sathoring broke up bv sinking the National Anthem.