PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 267, 9 April 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Arthur Rutherford, of "To Aroha. is on a visit to the district. The death occurred in Auckland on Sunday, at the age of 78, of an old resident of Wellington, Mr. A. E. Rowdcn.

His Excellency the Governor is expected to arrive in Auckland te-day, and will take up his, residence there until Parliament meets.

The death occurred suddenly on Tuesday nignt of Mrs, Arthur, wife of Mr J. G. Arthur, manager of the 'New Plymouth Gas Company. Mr 11. Langman, of Wcstown. leaves by the Rarawa this evening for Auckland, where he will join the Sydney boat on Tuesday to make an extended tour of Australia.

Air. W. Bennett', managing director ot the .South Taranaki Steamship Company, lias bee® elected chairman of the Wellington branch of the Shipowners' Federation' for the ensuing year. A minor is at .present current in Dunedin to the effect that Mr C. O. Kettle, S.M. at Auckland, is about to retire from the Magistracy in order to rceiiuic the practice of his profession. By the death of Mr. Alfred Palnv-r, of Awhitu Central, New Zealand has lose another of her pioneer settlers (says the New Zealand Herald). The deceased was born in England in 1828. He came to the Dominion in the Mermaid in ]HS!I. •taking up some land at Awhitu. tic was called away for some, years owing to the -Maori wars, but subsequently returned with his wife and family. He was visited several times by Bishop Sehvyn. who asked him to become a kiy reader for the district,, a position the deceased held until fourteifti years -ago. He was a second cousin of Mr. George Palmer, of Huutly and Palmer, biscuit manufacturers. lie left a widow and two married daughters. The death has occurred of Mr. J. 11. Janiieson, one of Otago's old identities. The deceased arrived in Dunedin ill IS'.E by the ship Cheviot (says the Ota go Daily Times.) He was born at Tolfi"'niory in 1841, and received an early commercial training with the linn of , Messrs Thomas Chalmers and Co.. of Glasgow. Por some time lie was salesman for the old lirm of Mows Cargil! 1 and McLean, merchants, of Duiiediii. and in 18T(i was appointed ci,ty treasurer, a position he held until IXBI, when the oflices of town clerk and city treasurer were amalgamated. He next became ac- - eountant to Messrs Mc.l.eod llros.. then

a private company, where lie remained until his retirement through ilMieallli a few years ago. u A Cbristehureh message reports the death of Mr Walter MacFarlane, of Kaiwarara. Mr Ma«Karlane was a wellknown who manage)! v.uiouestates for his father before .".cijuiriiig lvaiwarara in 1881. He was aa original member of the Cheviot Comi. il, one of the founders of the Canterbury SWpowners' Cnion (president ill 1U11). a member of the A. and P. Association executive, and chairman of the management committee of the Canterbury Domestic Syndicate. He went for a trip jto Europe for his health, -from which he returned a year ago, not mpch beiielited, and has been sullering more or less ever since, lie leaves a widow, three daughters and a sou. Air 11. W. Bishop, the senior Alaaistrate. in New Zealand by seven veals, has 41 years behind him in the u-rviee of the Covernment, and 32 years 011 the bqneh. yet for all this, as he lugubriously complained on Saturday night, he lias nothing to show hut a bald head, an increasing girth, and a very ripe experience of tiie underworld (renorts the l,yttel ton Times). He was in reminiscent vein, and he recalled the days in ell - ington when Sir James Carroll Entered the service as a raw cadet from litcountry. "He was very unsophisticated in every respect but one," said Air. Bishop.* "He played the. hottest game of billiards, «nd in my unregenerate days 1 knew something about billiards"