PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 76, 19 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Taxes De P u ty-Comtaisskmer if .t,;V oWeßra 7 1 in Stratford yesterday mormng from Dr. Oarbery in London. States that fe has h eel f accepted for active servico. stft JT'V' 1 '- 8 Megrim last night injured m ihc cWI-ision in which Colonel Hayhurst was killed, is doing well and ik expected to, recover. ' . The death is reported from Palmerston of Mr David Rowlands, one oflhe oddest settlers in .th* Mankwaw, aged It ?°,f nn 'f:i lm - Mr Rowland, piomment Mason. . settler of Pohangina, a member of iho Hospital Board, Maniawatu A. Assoomtion, Pohangina. County Council! and l-armers- Union, died yesterday - Press Association. y . The dfwth is announced from- Oamaru of tne Hon. T. Y. Duncan, M.L.C' at the ago of 78 years. Tike Hon. Mr Duncan w ;l9 formerly Minister for La:uls m Mr Scdd'on's Oabiw:. •Bishop Averill arrived by the Rarawa yesterday morning. He spent the moiling in New Plymouth and motoro.i through to Stratford in.the afternoon. At the meeting of the University Council at Dunedin yesterday afternoon, JJr. Rowland ,was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University, in plow Pf the late Dr. Scott. Dr. Uawland wa» reported on as having had an exceptionally brilhant career as a student, and pitals in various W The death occurred at St. Albans., thristehurch, yesterday, of a very olrt resident, in the person of Mrs. /ffi« 1 be deceased lady, who was 7(i years of age, had been in delicate health for soman U f-,'n il IB A urvivod V »« Jnub««l an a family of lour sons and six daughteis Messrs P. J. and H. E. Hill the well-known New Plymo.u.h riflcm",', b. mg two of the sons. ' U( deferring to the death of Mr F v wl™ - Ml ' Sl,ur<i, ' ( - w:ho ' TO « one of v-as a W /calandcr by birth. In mi he came to Wanranui, where he resided W the fmie of Ins death. the guuter portion of. that time he was minager of the Wanganui S» ls 'h S taring h „ i cn? resjdence in Wanganui took a keen interest in local politic, lie was fust elected to the Boroul 'St* n 18 l?i a , df * om ISB4 to i88 «h rL- y ? r ° f t ! cl,orou K''- He was also a Prauiiont memlber of the Harbor Board and School Committee, while for many yoara he had .been a member of the a !'P Board, being oneor the Wanganui representatives at 'the time of his death; He also took a very active park in connection with the Wanganui Technical College beim-clian-nmn, of .the College Committee. A widow and grown-up family are ieft to mourn dieu- loss, and to them we tender out sincere syinipthy. The death occurred on Sunday morning of one pf Wellington's first settlers, m the person of Mr J. J. Taine, who passed away a); his residence, North Head, Devonport. The deceased gentleman had almost attained 3iis OSth year and was perhaps the last one of thkwe Versons who stepped oid the shore of WeUmg; on's harbor in 1840. SI T Inline ieft England in the New Zealand Company's shipj Atlelaide. in 1839, and arriving in Port Nicholson the following year, was soon successfully launched m business. A fellow-passenger of Ms was the late Mr, T. \V. McKcnaie. It is new many years ago that Mr Taine was able to retire from business, and since uicii Hie has passed much time in travel, ling in England, the Continent, and' Ausl..valia. He 'resided in various parts of the Dominion. Shortly after his arrival in Wellington he married t'li'e adopted daughter of Mi' Edwuril Gibbon Wakell«Jd, who died a few years back at. an advanced age. Their survivors ■ are Messrs A. G. Taine (Auckland), C. F. Taine (Wellington'). 11. Taine (Stoke), and W. and A. Taine (Dunedin), while the daughters are Mcsdames Fildes and ; Darling (of Wellington), and Mesdames • Webb .-Kid -Russell (of Auckland).