PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 257, 9 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

According to Australian paper*/ Victor Trunrper, the famous Australian cricketer, is seriously ill. A Sydney cablegram announces the death of Mr. George Sangster, a prominent Victorian Laborite, \vfl

Captain Joll leaves next week for the Territorial camp at Levin. He hat been accepted for active service, and will later leuve for Trentham.

A contemporary, referring to Mr. Mai- I colro Ross's appointment as war correspondent, says his movements are : not yet certain, but it is possible that ho may be required to go to London before he ig pormitcd to join the Now Zealand forces, where ever they may I>c serving. It is stated that the chief cause of Mr. 1 Primrose McConncU's resignation as director of the Ruakura experimental farm ' was the matter of status. On the Civil ■ Service classification list, though afitu- ' ally the manager of the farm, Mr. Mc- • Cornell was graded below some of his staff. This he naturally resented, and ' decided to sever his connection with the service.

Changes in the personnel of the staff of the Hawcra railway station are about to take place. Mr. 0. Osborne, booking clerk, is to go to Holcombe, on promotion as station master. Mr. Jarman (parcels) transfers to tlie goods department, Wanganni. Mr.' Masters, of the head office, Wanganui, cornea to Hawera as booking clerk. Mr. A. Thompson, of the relieving staff, and Mr. Roaehe, station master at Tarikf, join the public office. Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, who left last week for the Old Country, told a pressman before departure that he intended to take a full year of liberty before ho accepted an appointment or re-enteerd political life. He said that he- did not expect an early election in New Zou* land. Regarding the rumour that na might represent the Dominion in tondon in some capacity, he could only say that he had no plans beyond having a year's holiday. The death is reported from Queenstown of Mr. Neil MEwon, aged eightyfive, who came to the Dominion fiftytwo years ago. He followed for a while gold mining at Nokomai and tn» Scevnty-two Mile, and for a long period owned various craft on the lake, sub- , frequently engaging in farming. An- ■ other pioneer in the person of Mr. William Johnson passed away at Gore last week at the age of 91 years. Born , in Lincolnshire, England, he came to ; New Zealand in 1869.

The appointment of Mr. Percv Muter to .tlio position of Actuary of the New Zealand government Insurance Department, in succession to the late Mr. • Morris Fox, is announced. Mr. Muter is a native of Invercargill, and joined the Christchurch branch of the Department as a cadet in 1879, and since then has steadily risen in the service to his present position. He is a Fellow of Jthe Institute of Actuaries, London, and was ' the. first man in Australasia to com-

plete the examinations and obtain that distinction.

Dr. Roland Fulton, late house sur- [ geon in the Dunedin Hospital, left ' Dunedin on Tuesday, en route for Lon- j don, where he purposes placing his scr- ; vices at the. disposal of the War Office. : The University of New Zealand has agreed to hold in abeyance the Medical Travelling Scholarship, which Dr. Fulton possesses, while he is serving his King and country, and on the conclusion of the war he will he granted permission to take up his studies at one of the London universities and to fulfil the prescribed condition of the scholarship. After a residence of sixty years in the Wairarapa, Mrs. John McKenzie, of Mastcrton, died on Monday. She had attained the age of 78 years. When just a girl, she came with her parents from the Hutt, and their first residence was on the Upper Plain. With her husband, "she bravely shared the trials of the early pioneering days, and, although she reared a family of eighteen children (nine sons and nine daughters), she still found time to assist those in trouble, and her many acts of kind- , iipss and devotion will long be remembered.

According to the Southland Times, Mr. G. B. Marsh, who has been on the staff of the Ocean Beach freezing works for the past fifteen years, has been appointed to a highly salaried position:in Russia. The position will entail the supervision of the construction of similar works to those at Ocean Beach, and the management of them, when they are constructed, for an influential London firm. The engagement is for five years with full expenses paid from Vcw Zealand. Mr. Marsh will probably leave for Moscow via Sydney, Japan and the Siberian railway, on Saturday next.

Mr. James Mclldowie, who died trad* denly at Rotorua on Sunday afternoon, was a wealthy run-holder from Oishornn about sixty years of age. It ap-.

pears'that he went to the 'Postmaster' Bath in the morning, remarking to the attendant that he did not feel too well, who advised him not to take a oath before consulting Br. Wohlmann. llowever. he had a bath, dressed and departed. ' Between the bath and Mr. Brent's Bathgate House some children noticed that he was very ill. They told a pass-

er-by, who immediately went for Dr. Wolilmann, but be, on arrival, could only pronounce life extinct. The doctor' eventually gave a eerlinente or death resulting from henrt failure. The remains of the lnlc Mr. Mclldowie were sent to Auckland, en route to Gisbornc.