PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 29 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram announces the death of Lord Merthyr, aged .77 years.

I he Bishop of Auckland will probably conclude lii ri visit to I'.-uaiaki on Tuesday, reteruing to Anc.ki.nsd -by the I'nrawa that cvfuung. Mr. E. Dockrill received a cable yesterday from his sou, Mr. J. *>. Dockrill, 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, to say that he has passed his linai examination for the medical profession.

Mr. J. 11. Witheford, of Auckland, a former member of the House of Representatives, who went home in connection with the dotation of a New Zealand mining scheme, has arrived in Australia on his way back to New Zealand. Lieutenant Lepper, of the New Plymouth High School Cadets, wlo is a candidate for one of the commissions in the Imperial Army, has received word that he has qualified at the recent military examination, fov which lie «ati in Wellington. The many friends of the clear of St. Mary's. Rev. A. 11. Colvile, will regret to hear that lie is in a very weak state o! health, jmd has Ibecn advised that unless lie takes a complete rest for a while, lie will have a breakdown. The Veil. Archdeacon. Evans an I 'the Rev. Orawsllaw have arranged to take over Mr. Colvile's WM'k.

News has been received of the death of Mr. Alexander John liad field, an old New Zealand settler, who passed away at his residence at St. John's lliil, Wanganui, on Monday. The deceased was the second son; of the late Captain Henry Wilbraham Hadfipld, of the Indian Army. He was boi'n at HighclilY, Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight, in 1842, and arrived in the Dominion in. the sailing ship Wild Duck in 18G2, after a voyage of over three months. The deceased was for many years engaged in slice]) farming in the Ilawke's Bay and Otaki districts, lie made many trips to England, and was there married to the daughter of the late Colonel Charles Hadfichl, of Litchfield, Derbyshire, but Si is wife did not survive the stormy voyage out to New Zealand. He married the seeofid time, the second daughter of the late Francis Robinson, of llerrington, Foxton. The deceased leaves a widow and a grown-up family of five sons and four daughters.