PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 227, 4 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Miss "E. Statham, Government In- *■ spect'or.of Soldiers' Graves, who has been •' paying ,an official visit to New Plymouth,.. ■' :lel£"by the mid-day train yesterday for' .- ; Wanganui. / *

Mr. George Innes, who has been act- ■. ing as manager of "the Auckland branch. - ;" of bli« Bank of New Zealand'during the- • absence of Mr. H. Buekletpn,. hag been. •. appointed manager at Gisborne. \ A London cablegram reports thedeath. of Professor James Geikie, a Well-known geologist, brother of Sir Archibald , , Geikie, an even more famous geologist. '• ■ Professor Geikie was 70 years of age and was a specialist on the subject of glacial action., His "Outlines of Geology' is theleading work of tihe kind.

Major Morrison, General Staff Officer, paid an official visit to the Rewa Rewa. camp on Tuesday, and was highly delighted everything he saw. He spoke in particularly eulogistic terms of tne manner in which the camp had been laid out, the facilities provided, and the general conduct of affairs. The degree of Doctor' of' Science, which was conferred upon Mr. C. E. Adani3, FUI.A.S., New* Zealand Government Astronomer, who is in residence-at the Lick Observatory, Mount, Hamilton, California, for a year, wa,3 awarded by the University of New Zealahd for his thesis on "The Harmonic Analysis of the Tides." - ■;) , News has been received/that Lieutenant F. G. Cooper, RJSf.R., who left. New Zealand with the main Expeditionary Force, as Naval Transport Officer of H.M.T.S. No 9, lias been promoted to the rank of Liouteuant-Comniander, an'l appointed to the command of a torpeedo boat engaged between Suez and Port Said.

Mr and Mrs E. G. Jellicoe arrived in Wellington by the Tainui qn Sunday. Mr Jellicoe was well-known aB a barrister and solicitor in the Empire City, and has practised for some years in England. He will probably stay in New • Zealand during the war, to look aft.* hfa interests here. He has no intention of" re-entering .political life. Mr. W. B. Scandrett, ex-Mayor of Invercargill, had to undergo a serious operation last weck-r-the amputation of his right leg near the hip. For some ,'ihqnths he had been confined to his home % an inflamed knee, which gradually became diseased, causing constant and intense pain. The operation was successful, arid, Mr. Scandrett is reported to be ' progressing favorably. ~ Mr. D. Herlihy, an old resident of Kymata,: who has lived at Taumarunui for the last fouV years, is returning to Kis 'old home. Before leaving Taumarunui he and Mrs. Horli'iy were entertained at a social gathering at which about 100 settlers were ,pre3ent. During the evening Father Brennan, on behalf of the settlers, presented Mr. Herlihy with a (handsome set of pipes, and Mm Herlihy witi ,# handbag.

- Believed to be the oldest active member who has enrolled in the National Reserve, Mr. Reuben King, of the Taita section, is eighty-five years of age, and still liale and hearty. As a rifle eWt ho could give, a lead to many a younger man, and he is fit for quite a substantial., amount of drill and marching. Mr. King was present at the reception given in Wellington to the Duke of Edinburgh A London cablegram reports the death of Mr. Frank Bullen, the wcllknswn writer on sea life, at the age of 68. Between 1860 and 1883 Mr. Bullen served at sea on a whaler, and later, till 1899, he held a clerkship at the Meteorological Office: His first book, "The Cruise of the Cachelot," was published in 1808, and since that timo he has annually produced one or two stories dealing with the doings of seafaring men. '• An old colonist, Dr J. P.'. Kennedy, died in England on December 28th. He began, his career in the New Zealand Treasury Office, and afterwards became private secretary to • Sir JuliiH Vogel, who appointed him / secretary* of the Midland Railway, of Canterbury. On that languishing he went to Edinburgh to study medicine, and eventually graduated M.8., Ch.B., returning to New Zealand subsequently. He settled in Levin, where he practised for many years. Suffering from an incurable malady, he went to London in order to obtain expert advice, but he only lived for a short time.

By the death of Mr- George Murray Canterbury loses another of her early settlers. Born in Surrey in 11(36, Mr Murray came to New Zealand in the ship Labuan, landing at Lyttelton in 1851. He hail, been brought up to agricultural pursuits, and at the age of twenty-one commenced farming on his own account in the Halswell and Lincoln districts. Later he acquired a larger property at Greenpark and lived there for some considerable time. Mr Murray took an active part in local government. For many years he represented the Halswell riding on the old Selwyn County Council and represented the Council on the Hospital Board. He was also a member of the A. and F. Association. In 1867 he married a daughter ef the Mr John Gebbie, of Lyttelton.

The Bev. Dr G. Brown, president of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia, who is attending the conference now Bitting iD Christchurch, is eighty years of age, but is strong, healthy, and energetic. He was born at Barnard Castle, Durham, England, and tried several vocations before he entered the Church. He arrived in Nw Zealand in 1855, and shortly after married the daughter of the Rev. J. Wallis, a missionary at Waingaroa, and decided to enter the mission field, He is a Fellow of the Roy»l Geographical Society, and has .contributed papers on natural history, philology and ethnology to the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, and to the "Proceedings" of the Royal Geographical Society. This is his first visit to New Zealand lie came here in 1855.