PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 169, 23 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs Robeft Wells, of Wa|. rtara West, celebrate their golden wed< ding to-day. The Bev. Father Seymour," of Meaneej has been on a brief visit to New mouth. A Sydney cablegram states that Cap. tain Willcox, who died at Rotoorua, wm , a prominent pastoralist, irrigations!, , end sheep-breeder. A Len'lon cablegram reports the deatti of Mr A. 0. Jones, the Nottingham cricketer. Mr Jones neveV fully recoft eied from an attaok of pneumonia had during his visit to Australia with the cricket team. Mr J. A. Brailsford, formerly su])» editor of our evening contemporary, has returned to New Zealand from China to recover his shattered healthi. He is at present resting in Auckland. Tho Rev. J. M. Steward, M.A., of the! Melanesian Mission, is taking a health-* recruiting trip after twelve years' missionary work He is now at Stratford, and intends visiting Australia and Eng. bind. Mr. Robert Fletcher, M.P., chairman of the Harbor Board, will contest the Mayoralty of Wellington at the next election. Ho lias announced that ho will not again stand for the chairmanship of the Harbor Board. The death occurred at Timaru last Wednesday of Mr. William Gunn, father of Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, of Wellington. Mr. Gunn was born at Holmsdale, Scot* land, in 1850, and arrived in New Zealand, when he was a young man, acting as a chemist in ffimaru for many yean. He was a doctor of dental surgery of the University of Pennsylvania. Den ceased was prominently connected with' the civic ami social affairs of Timaru.