PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 18 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

«f 1 1«.. B " \ ■'•■ I ? owcia - h o is bi charge of several oil bores in the DaWvirfce .An Ottawa cablegram states that Innee Alexander, of Tcek. tilie new .•overnor-Genoral of Canada., is unlikely to go to Canada. The Duke of ConI naught's term is likely to ho extended. I Mr George Tabor, who recently underwent an operation and has been an. I inmate of a private hospital foT the. I past five weeks, is, we are p'.eased to state, again able to. attend to busii.ness. 1 Etr Martin, medical: officer at the PalI imerston North Hospital, who is ao pre j sent en tour abroad;.has cabled to the 1 Hospital Board his appointment, «s a ; surgeon in the British Army. I)r Martin did notable work in the Bom- War. Prior to proceeding south to join the •expeditionary force,. Mr H. L. ityralt, solicitor, of. Stratford, was on Saturday j quietly married to. Miss Zaida Pauiin-- -, Bayly, eldest daughter of Mr Frc I J Bayly. Colonel A. E. Wilson, D.5.0., who ha« I 'been visiting New Zealand, is about to > leave for Sydney en roiue for England. Colonel Wilson was one of the Column J Cocmmanders of the South African war aind raised and commanded Kitchener's Fighting Scouts. Mr W. 11. D. Bell, M.P. for Wellington Suburbs, who has gone with the advance guard of the expeditionary force, has arranged with Dr A. K. Newonan, M.P. for Wellington East, to attend to matters: of local interest to the former's constituency during his abfienco. In an address to his electors. Mr Bell says.—"l shall always bear in grateful remembrance tJile iionor you conferred on me when you elected me to reorcsent you in Parliament, and I .hope that later in nry life I may again have some ofTtortainity of serving you." Mr Samuel Smith, who died at Lowe" Hitt on Friday, at the age of 90: years, was a pioneer colonist. He arrived in New Zealand 'by the Duke of llbKburgh in February, 1840. Seven years later Ik>. went to Otago, where for some time he was a member of the (mounted police. The late Mr Sinith returned to Lower Hutt in 1849, and in 1852" joined' a party of miners who went to the goldficlds in Victoria. On his return to Lower ' Hutt, deceased became- a- farmer, a. callI ing that he. followed for many years. He was engaged in the Maori war, and [was present when Te Raupaiaha was captured' on the hills close to Pliimmerton. As an Oddfellow he was known throughout the Dominion, and was one of itlie original members of the Hand and Heart Lodge, Dunediii; he also assisted in the foundation of the Loyal Rose |( of tlie Valley Lodge. Lower Hull. Mr Smith, who was twice* mf.rried'. is survived by his wii&w, one son, and' one daughter.