PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 234, 12 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr. Elizabeth Macdonald, senior house surgeon at the Dunedin Hospital, has boon appointed medical inspector of schools for tho Auckland district. A London cable states that Major GuV Louis Du Maurier, D.5.0., author of the patriotic play, "An Englishman's Honte," was killed at the, front. A Sydney cable states that Mr Graham succeeds Mr A. C. Carmiehael as Minister for Education in the New South Wales Cabinet. , Dr. Mill, of Geraldinc, has determined to offer his services "at one of the base hospitals at tho front, and will leave Geraldine in about a fortnight and sail from Sydney on April 7. He will be accompanied as far as England by Mrs, Mill. * From a private letter received in New 'Plymouth last night we learn that Mr Primrose McDonnell, manager of the State Experimental Farm Kuakura. has tendered his resignation to the Government. A Gazette announces the appointment , by the Governor of tho following members of the first and second di"isions of : the Court of Appeal:—First division: , : Sir Robert Stout and Justices Denniston, Sim, Hosking, and Stringer. See- ; ■ ond division: Sir Robert Stout and Jus--1 tices Edwards, Cooper, and Chapman. The retirement on superannuation of an exceedingly popular and much-re-spected officer of t.h" Wellington Harbor Board, Pilot W. Shilling {deputy harbormaster), was the occasion of a pleasing function recently when he was the recipient of a solid leather dress case, and double gold albert watehchain from his late colleagues of the pilot staff. English papers record the temporary appointment of Field-Marshal Lord . Bctlmen as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta, in succession to General ,' Sir Henrv Mac.le.od Leslie Rundle. Lord y Methuen'is now in his seventieth year. 1 Since the South African war. in which . he commanded the Ist Division of the i Ist Army Corps, lie lias been successively 1 Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Com- . maud and General Officer Commandingr in-Chief in South Africa. In 1900 ho i was Governor of Natal. General Sir r Leslie Rnndlo, who had been Governor j of Malta since 1000, was on Januarv 1 '., appointed to command the sth - New j Army. : " The Rev. Thomas Flavell, who has been vicar of Christow, Exter. since 1604, bade farewell to his parishioners on January 10. His medical adviser has. insisted that he should resign the living and seek entire rest. 'MY. Flavell, who is seventy-six years of age. has snout a life, of ceaseless activity. At King's College, London, in 1R(!S. be was , Trench Prizeman and the herfd man of the year. After his ordination he went to Nelson, New Zealand, where for twenty-three years he. labored chiefly as a missionary among, the goldminevs. a!s<* filling the i. positions of secretary of the Christ church b1 Diocesan Synod and Diocesan Inspector. j. On his return to England he acted as a S.P.G. deputation secretary for some a years, and for ten years as organising i» secretary for the dioceses of Exteter and Truro.