PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 7 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Paul Dufault, the popular tenor vocalist, lias settled in New York as a teacher. He is making a specialty of the French repertoire and diction

Association telegram from Hokitika. announces the death of Mr William Mitchell, a well-known pioneer, of Stafford, aged seventy-one. He leaves a grown-up family of ten.

Mr Roehfort, at one time manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Eltham, has been promoted to the position of Inspector.

Miss F. White, a popular and energetic teacher at St. Aubyn Methodist Sunday School, was yesterday made the recipient of a handsome presentation, on the eve of her approaching marriage. . Mr H. Stocker is now making a good recovery from the serious illness that has incapacitated him from business weeks back. He leaves . this morning for Christehurch and Akaroa on a holiday trip, before resuming business.

A well-known figure in shipping circles has bcoh, ■staying in New Plymouth lately, in the person of Captain Lambert, a retired skipper of the Union Cornpan}' s fleet. Captain Lambert was in his day one of the most popular officers in the service of the Company, and commanded the s.s. Arahura

Mr W. H. D. Bell, ex-M.P. for Wellington Suburbs, left Auckland for Vancouver, en route to England, on Tuesday. Mr Bell recently returned from Samoa, where he held a commission as a, captain .in the advance guard of the expeditionary force. He resigned, however, to join tlie King Edward Horse. Ihe death of Mr John Marks, which took place at the Westlaud hospital on Tuesday, removed another of the band of pioneers who went to the West Coast 111 the days of the gold rush. Mr Marks, who was a native of England, and seventy-eight years of age, followed the yanous rushes. Of late he resided in Hokitika.

, Captain John Evelyn Duigan, of tile Staff College, Quetta, a WanganUi boy, Juis been transferred to the. headquarters staff of the. New Zealand Expeditionary l'oree. Captain Athelstane Moore D.5.0., has been granted the temporary rank of major while with the force.

Whaiigaiuomona is to have a new postmaster next week. The gentleman appointed is Mr R. Patton, of Kuikoura, South Marlborough, where lie baa been stationed for over nine years, and has frequently acted for months at a stretch as Officer-m-charge. At a large gathering of citizens and Oddfellows, recently lie was the recipient of some handsome presentations, and the members of the Presbyterian Church followed with further marks of esteem and of his assistance as an office bearer. Mr Patton is a Past Grand of the local Oddfellows' Lodge, of which he has acted as permanent secretary for over six years. He lias been chairman of the Public Library for about the same period. Whangamomona will find in Mr Patton a most obliging official, and a worthy citizen.