PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 60, 31 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London ealilejrr.iin s i a t,,. s thatTrott tl.e cricketer, ha- left the hospital. Lord Kitchener has been elevated to an earldom unrl has taken Ins seat in the llou-e or" Lords. Sir. J. S. S. Medley has been appointed mi auditor of solicitors' trust accounts under the new Act. Mos>rs (Joorge Joachim, managing director of the Westport Coal Coy., with .Mr .1. Chamberlain, also a director of the Company, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Another old resident of Wellington, and a Maori war veteran, in the person of Mr. Joseph Hall, of Epsom Hamlet, Lower llutt, passed away at his- residence yr-slerdav, pi the ae;e of 82 .years. Deeea-ni, who was t.r,r M in Coventry, Kn; ; ■:■,-..: ,■>„„■■■ out to Incv Zealand m the ship London, landing at, Wellington on May Ist, 1842. Ho went to "the Lower Unit on January 10, 1852, whore he took up business as a builder and undciiai.er, and remained resident there until the itav of his dentil Tie retired li'oni business nbi.ul; thirteen or fourteen \ears ,i'jo,. lie took an active part : n tiic. Min-ri war, sewing in the militia as a. lieutenant, ami was present at the .-,];iji!!'e of the pri-oners when they '.•sciiped from the lm'k in Wellington liainor. LVceised v.a i a prominent Mrtiiodkt ami Oddfe! ow.—Press Asso"iation.