PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 268, 11 April 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reported of the Dtwsgtr- - Empress of Japan. The operation on the King o! Sweden; was successful.—Cable. Mr. C. E. Matthews, Inspector of Prisons, is on an official visit to New Plymouth'. Sir Joseph Ward \elt on, Thursday.. , night by the Maunganni for Sydney. fl«. , ■ return* in about ten days' time. ■>,',.•'- The death occurred' at Pacroa on S»^'., urday evening of Mr J. M. Coot*, <mt'.. * of the oldest residents of the distrie'.He \ .' was talking in his garden, and was .rod- ~ denly taken ill, expiring before he could ' be taken into the house. ' A Gisborno telegram reports the death ■, of Mr A. R. Muir, a veteran journalist, aged 70. The deceased was born i»

Wellington, and was connected from bis earliest years with The Independent, of which his father was part proprietor. He arrived in Gisborno. in 1883, to assume the proprietorship of the Poverty Bay, Herald. , . ■ ,-> The staff of the Auckland Magistrate^' r ' Court made a presentation the other. ' day to Mr E. W. Rhodes, who, for six , ' years, has been connected with the' • Auckland Court, and who has beem • transferred to tho staff of the New PJy. mouth Supreme and Magistrate's Courts. *■• ',', Mr C. A. Uartoii, clerk of the eonrt.Sjj .handed a suit-case to Mr Rhodes and, jfl while expressing his regret at losing " /r suoh a capable officer, 1 congratulated hint on his promotion. "-W / - A London cablegram states th»v / Beee«j ' ,' the well-known billiar<l,player, lV terJrV. !\ ously ill, and is unablu to soil for Anti, \ *'.: tralia, ,'- ■'