PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 172, 29 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

It is reported that the Rev. H. N. Papakura, who was among the unsuccessful candidates for the Northern Maori seat, is resuming his ministerial dutic'3 at Colae Bay (Southland).

Mr A. 11. Holmes, at one time clerk of the Court at New Plymouth, and now of Christchurch, is on a visit here.

j Mr S. Blackley. Uio New Zealand re--1 pK'sentative of the engineering firm l of Turnbull and Jones, is visiting his | brother, Dr Blackley.

Mr (i. D. Braiik, Director of Technical Education and Chief Inspector under the Wanganui Education Board, is progressing satisfactorily after undergoing a serious operation on Saturday last.

At Manaia last week Mr and Mrs R. Aroa were entertained at a farew?ll gathering by the local Methodists and presented with a silver-plate tea service. Mr Aroa was taken -up the managership of a business at Okato.

The report that a grandson of .Charles Dickens is serving with the Red Cro-,:i in France recalls an interesting ass ■ition of the great novelist with the i .it Franco-Prussian war, which broke ms; within a few weeks of his death. Forster records that when Jules Favre to meet Bismarck outside the walls of Paris in the fruitless hope of persuading him not to attack the city, a silent figure sat in one corner of the room, reading intently, apparently undisturbed by the discussion. It was Moltke and the book that absorbed him was "Little Dorrit."

, The Rev. Joseph Newman Buttle, whose death was reported on Thursday morning from Cliristchureh, was born in 1851 at Waipa, in the Upper Waikato. For a number of years lie followed ; farming in the Waikato whore he first began to preach. After two years' training at the Three Kings, he entered the active ministry in 1878, "He was stationed at Ivumara one year, Bttlc'.Utha two years,. Mornington two, Gore two, Jlastorton, Ashburton and Sydenham three years each, and a further term of • t? s co,n l'leted at Mornington 1? m. entered on the charge of the Tiniaru circuit in 189T, and in 1903 he was transferred to the charge of New Plymouth. Mr Buttle was ordained in 18b-, and was elected president of the , conference in 1905. He was foreign mission secretary for some time, but re-1 tired from active work last year on ac- ' count of ill-health. I