PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 166, 19 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Archdeacon and Mrs Evans leaves to-< Jay for Invercargill, for a fortnight's holiday.

Miss L. Hart, who i» leaving the Stratford school teaching staff to enter the matrimonial state, was presented with a pair of entree, dishes by the children on Thursday.

Mb A. M. Samuel,. who contested the Butt seat unsuccessfully against Mr Wilford, has been appointed Major in command of the. Wellington Mounted iiilles Regiment in the Third 'Reinforcement Force now assembling .at T*entham.

At the prize-giving ceremony in connection with the Technical School, tbo Director, Mr A. Gray, was presented by iv. Hoskin, on behalf of the girls v ->«* wave! to the college train, wit'i a silver-mounted pociket-book.

On? Wellington correspondent writes: it is probab.e that fciic Hon. F. M, B. Fisher, wlio has lost his seat, will l>o iittn.inHi to the third reinforcements for the fxpei'.i'Jonarv force. Mr Fisher hbhls a, 'ajitaiiic. Reserves.

ifr. William O'.mn, a Timaru dental Burgeon, died on Wednesday. He waß an old resident, and well known as the proprietor of the Theatre Royal and in connection with the local racing club and Caledonian Society, He had been ailing for some time, according to a Press Association telegram.

Mr William John Bassett, a wellknown resident of the Northern Wairoa, died suddenly at Dargaville on Sunday of heart failure. Deceased, who was sixty-fire years og age, had for twentysix years occupied responsible positions with the Kauri Timber Company, and was a recognised authority on timbermilling.

Mr Thomas Booth, a very old colonist, died a few days ago at his residence in Richmond road, Auckland. Bom at Fenwick, Doncaster, in 1827, lie came to the Dominion in 1859 and was associated with the city of Auckland for • nearly fifty years. He was one of the founders there of Primitive Methodism with which cause lie was actively allied for nearly half a century.

The death is reported of Mr Jolin /Gallagher, of Wellington., who ar- [ r ', v , ( 'l' ' u W e "ingt,o n from Ireland in IKUi. lif took part in the .Maori wars | and gained the New Zealand war medal, • after which he was appointed to the Prisons Department. For the ipast ! thirty years he resided in Hopperstieet.

In the death of Mr. Tom MaclCenzie, of Clydesdale, Carnarvon, the district loses a gentleman of striking character (says the Feilding Sfr.r]. A son of one of the sturdiest of the original settlers of the Rangitikei, he possessed just the qualities necessary to make his a succcsspioneer farmer, and such lie. became. When settlement increased, and agricultural shows began to be distributed along the coast, lie joined in those good institutions with a mighty hand. For many years lie was a successful exhibitor of sheep, and latterly of dairy cattle.