PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 10 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

Rev. T..G. Hammond has been appointed acting chairman of the Wan-ganui-Taranaki district of the dist Church while Rev. il. U Manure* of Wangiaimi, is away with the expeditionary force. Mr. James Thom liu.s been selected by the Palmcrston .Social Democratic Party to contest the Palmcrston tsait. A Loudon cablegram report* the deatli of Lord O'Brien, the tinst baron, who has been, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland since 181)9: Jlc leaves ho heir to the title. Tlu: death is announced, frohn Genevn,. of the 1 , llhrht lion. Sir John ftennikef Ilea ton:, thu greatest postal reformer Of his generation, at flic age of (J8 years. Of sixty postal reforms which lie tabulated in 1885, no fewer than forty have 'been carried l into: cll'ec.i,notably Imperial penny postage, the parcel porvt to France, tulegranhic money orders, and Anglo-American penny .postage, lie ha<l landed and newspaper interests in Australia, and he hu.f conferred on him the freedom of the cities of London and Manchester. The IJunedin Star's athletic contributor, "Suike," writes-:—The late •!. 11. Ilcmploii win the ,(ine»t sprinter -\c.v '/cakind has produced. lie won tiie I'liUvds. amateur -diampionship in ISSiIOU, "1891-9:2, 1892-93, and 181(3-94, ami the i'lOyds. championship in 1889-!):! and 1891-!L'. With VV. T. Macpiierson (New South Wales) Uempt-on held -.he New Zetland and Australasian 100 yds. record of !) -1-usec, ,M<iepherson setting up the record <en a grass track tit Auckland on February V, 18(11, a performance equalled by Jlemptou on a cinder track at Cliristehiirch on February c, 1891. At the. New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Championship Meeting (season 1889-90), llempton, at the Caledonian Ground, ran the ••hundred'' in !) :j-ssec., t!he tiu.e- not 'being accepted as a record owing to a strong wind behind the, runners. In company with 11. W. Batger, the Wellington hurdle!-, Ilcmpbon was selected 'to represent New Zealand at the iKngi'isli chamipiousliips, Derry Wood (the- Canterbury distance champion) and L. A. Cull (the. Canterbury quarter and half-miler and broul jumper) also made the trip on tiieir own account. Hempton was unlucky in meeting the famous English lllbvds champions Bradley and Downer, both capable of registering 10 seconds every time, and the. New Zeaiandcr was beaten. One of Hempton's finest performances w-,a,s at the New Zealand championship at Dunedin in 1393 mn the C-arisbrook Ground. He won the 100 yds, and in the 220 yds -was beaten on the post by H. M. .Reeves (Canterbury) after a great raoe. As a ihimdrciKyar'ds runner ho was a lot above the move lecent New Zealand champions Woodg"r, .Webster (also of New Plymouth), and Opie. "Jack" . Hempton ,\vu« a keen sport, a fine fellow, ami popular with all who knew him He was a cadet in the Customs Department, Dunedin, rising to the position of Collector of Customs at New Plymouth, a position held by him at the time, of his deatli. , ■