PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 30 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

Dr. Leatlmm and party have arrived safely at Perth. Mr. D. S. Wylie, "wtlio ihas been in Auckland for a few days, returns to New Plymouth by the liarawa tint morning! Mr. E. H. Hiley, General Manager of Railways, is expected to arrive in New Plymouth to-night on his annual tour of inspection. Lieutenant-Colonel the Rev. F. P. Fendall, vicar of ltangiora, has joined the reinforcement detachment of the expeditionary force. The appointment of the Very Rev. 'Dean Smyth, Superior at the Catholic Ecclesiastical College at Greenmcadows, Hawke'» Bay, as Provincial of the Marist Order in New Zealand, iia announced. English papers to hand announced the probability that for the future Heligoland will be known to England as JelliI coeland, in honor of the famous battle fought off the island a few weeks. Mr. A. E. Grant, of tlhe New Plymouth brunch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of transfer to Hastings, and leaves for his new potst on Monday. -Mr. Mcllraith, of Stratford, succeeds him at New Plymouth. Mr. F. W. Viekerman, who w well known among the dairy farmers of this district owiiig to his connection with the introduction' of the casein industry, lias received an, important appointment at Brisbane with Murray, Ltd., the proprietors of the Highlander Condensed Milk, and will leave Wanganui for Brisbane on Sunday. The death is announced of Major Robert Acheson, of Riverton, Southland, at the age of seventy years. The deceased, who came of a well-known North of Ireland family, left a widow and seven children surviving him, including Professor Albert Acheson, of Syracuse Univerj sity, New York, United States of AmeI riea, and Mr. Frank Acheson, LX.M., . I 'barrister and solicitor,

The Hawera Star reports the death of Mr. H. E. P. Adams, of Patea. He had been ill for some considerable time paet, and a few weeks ago came to Hawera for the purpose of submitting to an operation. But on his return home, though he seemed to rally a. little, it was only too apparent that the end .was not far off. He passed away yes-

terday. Mr. Adams was very generally respected throughout the district with I which he had been associated for a great j 11 any years. The death is announced at Syde by the Times of September 9 of Captain John H. Jellicoe, father of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, in his 90th year. Captain Jellicoe was for many years in the service of the Royal Mail Company, and for some time Commodore of its fleet. He retired from active service about 20 years ago, and was afterwards a director of the Royal Mail Company. In addition to Sir John Jellicoe, Captain Jellicoe leaves a son, the Rer. Frederick Jellicoe, and two daughters. ; Mr. W. L. Kennedy, J.P., of Stratford, r arrived in England, via New York (says I a London paper of recent date), and has sinco been to Scotland, where, in Ayrshire, ho was the guest at Finnast House of the Chief of the Kennedies. He next visited relatives in the North of Ireland for a month, afterwards spending some time in the Midlands with an old prominent New Zealander, Mr. Monkhouse. He hoped to sail on September 11, by the Orama. Mr. Kennedy undertook tire trip mainly do see iris aged, parents, whom; he liad ifo-t visited for thirty-five years.

Tlw death is rcportei l of Mr. G. S. Robertson, of Wanganui. The deceased 1 , who was in, ihis 74th year, was one of the oldest and most ih'ighly-respectcd settders in. t'h« district. He was born in Yorkshire, England, but spent the greater parit of his early life in Edinburgh and Peebles' (Scotland). After completing his education, he was engaged in engineering works in Liverpool, and in 1876 came out to New Zealand. Ho purchased the well-known Waireka farm, on the Wanganui river, opDoaite Upokongaro, where 'he resided 'till the time of his death. Apart from farming, the late Mr. Robertson took an aotive interest in all that, tended to the advancement of the country.