PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 225, 2 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL

Rev. H. G. Rosher, vicar of All Saints', Palmerston North, has resigned ■ on account of the ill-health in Ms family, and is returning to England in May.

The friends of Mr. Rowe Fenncll, of Woodville, will regret to learn that h[& condition i 3 by no means improved. Mr. Fcnnell is an inmate of a New Plymouth, private hospitalyßuffering from paralysis.

Mr C. E. Adams, New Zealand Government Astronomer, who is in residence at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, for a year, has had conferred uppn him the"" degree of Doctor of Science.

Mr K. Dobbie, stationmastcr at Dunedin, has been nominated as representative of the first division of the Railway Appeal Board, a vacancy having been created by Mr W. 0. Ennis having .'■■ gone to the war. The result of the voting should be known about the middle , of next month. Archdeacon Calder, who ha 3 been forty years in Auckland, and who for fifteen years occupied the dual position of vicar, of AH Saints a.nd Archdeacon of the diocese, has resigned the latter position, in order to devote himsef) more closely to his parochial duties.—Press .;! Association. Mr Joseph I. Brittnin, who has been Consul-General for tl'io United States / in New Zealand, with headquarters at Auckland for some months, has received notification from Washington of ■ his appointment as Consul-general at Sydney in succession to Mr John T. Bray. Mr Brittain will probably be leaving to assume his new duties in the v course of a few weeks. The name of a successor in the New Zealand Consulate has not yet boon intimated by the American' aitthtorities.

On Saturday evening Mr. IT. T.' Joll was the. recipient of a presentation from the staff of the Taranaki Meat Bazaar, the proprietorship of which he recently relinquished. Mr. K. Cliatterton. in handing to him a suitably 'inscril>od kit hag, eulogised Mr, Joll as an idea] employer and expressed regret at his danarture, at the same time wishing him ■happiness and prosperity in his new jvfihere. Other members of the staff spoke in similar strain. Mr. Joll in n ■few suitable remarks, returned thanks for the Tiresenlation and the kindly thoughts that 'had suggested it, as well &<-, for the kindly words that !had accompanied it. i.