PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 22 September 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dean Stephen, of Melbourne, has been consecrated as Bishop of Tasmania.-"-Cable.

A Press telega-am states that out of 'twenty-six applicant?, [or the position of engineer at a salary of £IOOO per anauuk the Westport Harbor Board has appointed Mr. v. N. Boult, of Mackay, ' Queensland. Dr. McDiarmid and I>. WaUis Have been appointed to the resident staff of the Cliristchureh Hospital, in place of Dr. Herons suul Dr. Trotter, who have volunteered for tie front.

Mrs. Drummey, one of A'cxandra'e oldest pioneers, and an aunt of Di» Chappie, M.P. for Stirlingshire, died on Thursday night, after some weeks' i tness. Mrs. Dnmmiey is survived by her hu:-hand and one daughter. A Press Association message from Masterton states that an old identity of that town, in tho person ol Thomas Wilton, senr., died yesterday, at tue ago of 83. He arrived in Wellington in the forties in the ship Oriental. The death, from heart disease, of Mr. John Parker, a well-known businessman and very popular .-esident of Mapier, is reported. He wns in bed when the seizure came up him, and died before medical aid could reach hm. Mr. Parker -was returning officer ' for Napier, and manager of the Napier branch, of Oook's tourist agency. He was married within the last two years to a daughter of- Mr. H. Keesmg, of Auckland. The death of the Rev. H. B. Redstone took place suddenly in Wellington on Sunday. The late Mr. Redstone, who had not been feeling very well owing toa slight cold, attended service Tit Tara-. naki Street Methodist Church in the inclining, and had reached his home. There he rested on a chair on the verandah while the midday meal was being prepared, and there, after an absence, of a few minutes only, he was diseov i: re>' dead by his sißtes-m-law, Mrs. P«!aU>r.< of Gißborne, having apparently pasfiL-i peacefully away, through a failure the heart's action,