PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 5 January 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that Lord Wiinborne succeeds 'Lord Aberdeen m Viceroy of Ireland. Rcefton reports the death of two very old identities, namolv, Mrs W. S. Hindmarsh, 80 years of age, and Mrs McQuillin, an earlier pioneer, 79 years of age. Mr E. D. Snell, of the staff of tifo 'Magistrate's Court; Now Plymouth, ha* received notice of transfer to the Justice' Department, Wellington, for which 'place lie will leave shortly to take up iia new duties. 1 Mr L. H. Clark," of. the Auckland branch of the National Insurance Company, has been appointed manager for tlie Taranaki district, with head office# at New_ Plymouth.' Mr Clark has secured offices in tho premises of Messrs L. A. Nolan and Co. The death was reported on Wednesday last of Tutangi Waionui, who died at Pariroa at the age of CD years. The chief, who was ,very well known in Taranaki, toolc part in the Maori war 1 of 1808, when he made a reputation for 'himself for 'his daring and skilful fighting. Mr Herbert B. Curtis, J.P., Inglewood's oldest residential settler, member of the erstwhile substantial firm of Curtis Bros., for three years Mayor of Inglewood, died unexpectedly last evening. lie had been ailing for a few days, but this did not cause any uneasiness until a few hours before his collapse. S Lieutenant R. ,T. Carter, of Efth&m, who holds a commission in the Eeserv# Corps, has received orelers from. tihe Defence Department to report himself in Wellington for service in the Expeditionary Force, and left Eltham yesterday. Constable Wade, who has been ia cl-argo of the Eltham station for the. past seven years, has been promoted to sergeant anl will shortly bo transferred, to Wellington It is understood that Constable Townsend, from Nelson, will succeed Sergeant Wade. Messrs J. and ST. Tait have recgiieg news from London that Mr Keimcrlej, Rumford is at the front, wheire he hal taken his motor-car. He is attacEjjd to ihe Red Cross and is aiding the transportation of the wounded from the l battlefields to the bo.se hospitals. Whilst Mr Rmr.ford is taking an active part in the war in this maimer, his wife, -Miss Ohr.i .Butt, is now in the unidat of a provincial tour rf Great Britain, giving Uie sole proceeds, of her concerts to the patriotic fund. r Captain Charles H. R. Watts, a New Zealand;!', who, it was repoited on Thursday, had been killed- in action, was an old Nelson College boy. Bo left the college to join the Fastern Extension Telegraph Company, but returned to the former institution in 1902 to 1 ui'spe hij military studies. In 1905 3wi gained by examination a commission in the Imperial Army, joining the second battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. At Nelson College, Ouptain Watts had a distinguished cireer, being head of tho school in IWS "H - minent -icnuic-' -t V--s -r- > ..id football u'Hi.ii ?:1 -.■■•-v;,.