PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 52, 22 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

'Mr. J. It. 11 ill- has been appointed the Taranaki Agricultural Society's representative >on tlie Technical Collese Advisory Board. Mr. W. P. Kirk wood, Mayor of Stratford, who v at the conclusion of the Municipal Conference, went across to Blenheim, i« expected to return liolnc to-night. At Dunedin last Friday, Mr. Oilin McDonald- ,Gilray, the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar in 1907, was admitted ica a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr. Gilrny had already been ad mitted as a barrister of tllve Inner Temple, London.

Writing under date July 11. an cx change's London correspondent savs that Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nolan and .Miss Nolan, of Hawcra, were tlnen in London. They had bought a motor-car, and intended touring the United Kingdom. * A very popular and pretty wedding WAS celebrated at All Saints Church. Jilthaau, last Wednesday ((states the Argus). The contracting parlies were Mr. F. Coates, third son of Mr. W„i. Coates, Lowgarfh, and Miss tnra Astburv, eldest daughter of Mr. 1). Artbnrv, Manga toki. Mr. George Thornton, one of the en"liieers employed by the Oinlcnbury Provincial Government, whio.had retired for many years from active work has -died at Sumner. Mr. Thornton wis engaged under the late Mr. Edward Dobson in the construction of a road over the ranges which connected the East and "West Coasts. J)r. C. jr. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps." is expected to arrive in Sydney on July 27th. After a brief stay he will go to Melbourne and Adelaide,'an'l t/liienee to New Zealand, where he j& to conduct meetings in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association. Tils principal object is- study the effects of social and industrial legislation in Australia and the Dominion.