PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 261, 14 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

'^^?;Stn fNapie; ' ißona^t to i ori^'nfV 1- £ , Valintine > Inspector-Gen- ! yosterda^ Bl> '"" to NeW Pl y mm^ ' nw f '. Ddl W ? taon ' ° n Monday, com- , pitted M yearn' service with Mr. New. ton King. f A Sydney telegram states that Mr. i Middleton, a New Zealander, h a 9 been I elected vice-president of the Oranee r Council for two years. b ■ Mr Cecil Gray, of '.New Plymouth, who has been on a visit to England, n> r«td at Auckland by the Rverina on Monday. Mr. Cray will reach New Ply. 1 month this morning. It was twenty-one years ago on Monday since the Right Hon. W. F. Massey was first elected to the House of Representatives in the Parliament of * New Zealand. Sister G. Sisley, late of New Plymouth Hospital, and now of the Coronation Hospital, Christchurch, has offtrcd her services to the Empire, v»A leaves Wellington next week for Eng- - land, with a view to proceeding to the front. Mr. E. H. Nolan expects to arrive in Hawcra in June. He was leafing England at the end of March, but proposed spending some little time in Sydney and Queensland. Mrs. Nolan and her daughters are remaining in Entr- ■ land—Star. ° 1 A well-known Irish sportsman who - has fallen is Lieutenant Harry Keat- ' ing, who was in Germany when the war broke out, but just managed to ' I escape. He joined the Royal Flying ' Corps, but fell fighting with the Irish , Guards, probably when they took the brickfield at La Bassec. ' Mr. Alfred A. Winslow, the New United States Consul-General for New Zea--1 jand, arrived at Auckland by the River- | ina yesterday afternoon. Referring to the Dominion's display at the Panama 1 Exposition,, he said it was attracting very wide attention, and would result in 1 great advantage to the Dominion. Two well-known priests in the Auckland district-namely, Dean Mahoney, of Onchunga, and Dean Hackett, of Paeroa—will in future bo officially known as Monsignor, that dignity having been conferred upon them by the Holy See. Monsignor Mahoney is a native of AuckMr. c. A Wilkinson, M.P., has been nominated for election on the Now Plymouth Harbor Board for the combined boroughs of Stratford, Eltham, and Jnglewood, the nominators in each case m £- g , Mos . 9rs W " P - Kirkwood and R ItiT'r w°l (St ? tford) ' W. D. Ross and G. W. Bennett (Eltham), George Young and A. B. Garnlin (Inglewood). Being the only nominee, Mr. Wilkinson has beon elected. Mr. G. W. Taylor, who is at present a borough councillor, was the first Mayor of Eltham, holding office for over seven vcars-the longest term the Mayoral chair has been occupied by one man. Mr. Taylcr, since the inception of the borough, has been almost continuously connected with local politics, a very creditable record. Mr Tayler has not yet definitely decided to stand again this year but he states that in all probability he will do so.— Eltham Argus. Dr. Arthur Martin cabled to his brother in Christchurch on Saturday, from Switzerland, stating that he l«*a en route to join the New forces in the East. Dr. Martin, accepted a commission as lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps at the outbreak of the war, and has highly distinguished himself, holds a commission as major in the New Zealand M.C. After brilliant ana very arduous service at the front, and being mentioned in dispatches, he began to feel the terrific wear of constant and often sleepless work in the rush tinion, and was transferred to the consultant service nnd direction at a base hospital in France. He had recently written that so severely was the long strain telling that he was returning shortly to New Zealand; hut ho has evidently once more accepted the call of duty, and is to follow the New Zealanders into action, as he did in South Africa. Yesterday Mr. W. W. De Castro, District Land Registrar and Deputy-Com-missioner «f Stamps at Tnvoreargill, completed forty years of duty in the public y service, but, though )\e can now ret'ro at will on full pension, he does not contemplate taking (hut stop immediately. Mr. Do Castro joined the Government Life Insurance Oflice ou April 14th, 187fi, at Wellington, and three years later was transferred to the Lands and Deeds Office, in ISBO. His first move en me when he went to Christehiireh. After two years in the Canterbury capital, he was transferred to Hokitika, where he remained until July, ISSII. Then he went 1o Blenheim as chief clerk in the Lands and Deeds Oflice, and Deputy-Commis-sioner of Stamps, and was moved in May, DMI, to Nelson as Deputy Land Registrar, and Deputy Commissioner of Stamps. In Nelson Mr. De Castro remained for twenty years, leaving in 1!>12 for Invereiirgil'l, where he succeeded the late Mr. Pauling as Deputy Land Registrar ami Deputy Commissioner of. j Stamps. Mr. De Castro has an excellent - record in the Department, and in Invc-r----enrgill lias won the respect and esticm of all doing business with his office.- • Press Association.