PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 41, 9 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

i A Freman'ui' cablegram reports that , Madame Mdb.i arrived by the Orsova. Melbourne University has appointed Mr. Marshall Hall to the Ormond Professorship of Music. Nurse Birdling and Nurse Chong, of the New Plymouth Hospital, hare resigned their positions ill that institution. Nurse Roberts has been, appointed district nurse at Mokau, Nurse Lan»lev at Uruti, and Nurse MbNab at o°punake, under the TamanaW Hospital Board. Mr. J. Pohlen, having retired, Mr. Ralph Steward formerly inspector of schools in the Auckland district, has been selected as Liberal candidate for the Tauranga seat. Nurse James, of the New Plymouth Iwspital, has passed her final examination in nursing, and Nurses Gill, Symons, Couttsi and Muif hay© passed the preliminary examination. The Patea Harbor Board has appointed Mr. H. F. Toogood resident engineer. Mr. Toogood is a New Zea•lander who 'has had considerable experience in harbor and river engineering work in the Straits Settlements. t 1 Tsie death of Mr. Matthew McKey, for forty years a resident of Welling--1 ton, took place yesterday. For twenty • years doe wised had carried on a taker's business in Clyde quay, and after his retirement Jived in Stanley street, Ber- ' hampore. Mr. MaeKey. was born in Kilkenny OT years ago, and was a very old member of the Hiberniaji Order. Dr. Leatham. in a letter to the secretary of the New Plymouth-Hospital Board, says that he has just returned to London after a trip on the Continent. He expects to return to New Zealand in November, and is looking forward! to resuming his work at the • New Plymouth Hospital. He is at prosent busy in selecting X-ray apparatus for that institution. By the last mail Dr. J. W. Salmond (Solicitor-Genera l !) received from London the "Swiney" prize for his book on Jurisprudence. The prize is a very beautiful gold cup (from a design specially prepared in 184!) for the first award by D. Maclise, the well-known Royal Academician), and £IOO in money. The cup itself is valued at £IOO. . The award i l . made jointly by the Royal Society of Arts and the Koyal College, of Physicians. ° One of the ear-lies.! settlers in the Ilutt Valley, in the person, of Mrs. Francis Hester Cleland', passed away at her home at Taita on Friday last in her 75th year. Arriving at Port Nicholson in t!>e ship Clifton in 1842, the late Mrs. Cleland first settled with her parents in Petone, where she resided for 23 years. In the year 1803 the descaled lady was married to Mr. William Cle- ' land, son of the late Captain Cleland. Ir. that year also, Mr.- and Mrs. Cleland moved to TaiU, where they resided from that time. The late Mra. Cleland'is survived by her hiwband. The unexpected death of Mr. Horace : Walker, manager of the Auckland branch of the Commercial Union Insuir- 1 anee Company, took place recently. Mr. : Walker was very well known in insurance and,social circles. He had been 1 manager of the Auckland office of the i Commercial Union for about five or six i year*, and for twenty-five years before i that he was joint manager with Mr. J. B. Graham, solicitor, of that town. He ! wa» chairman of the Underwriters' As- < relation for many years, and for the I last five years he represented the under- < writers on that body. Deceased leaves < a. widow and two daughters. -