PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 265, 19 April 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Hcslop, of Eltham. who is returning from a trip to the Old Country, | is expected in New Plymouth on Tuesday. ■ The Rev. Wallace Neiile, the new minister of the Manaia Methodist Church, was accorded a Welcome on Thursday evening. Mr G. F. Pott, of the Bank of Ne,v Zealand, Kaponga, leaves this morning for Trentham to join the ro-inforjc-ments for the front. It is understood that Mr. B. R. Wise has been chosen to succeed Sir T. A. Coghlan as Agent-General for New South Wales, says a Sydney cablegram. Mr. W. 11. Hawkins, -of Tataraiamaka, lias received word that bis eldest son, who is with the New Zealand forces on active service, is seriously ill with pneumonia.

Captain E. G. Evans, marine superintendent for the Shaw, £avi)l and Albion line at Wellington for. the past thirteen years, died yesterday morning as the result of a paralytic stroke he suffered a day or two ago.—Press Association telegram. The death occurred on Wednesday, at his residence in Ponsonhy, of Mr. John Ponsford, who had resided in Auckland for many years, and was highly respected by a large circle of friends. 'Mr. Ponsford was eighty-two years of age. He had been in failing health for some time. He .left a widow and an adult family. Jesse Willard, the cowboy fighter, who is now the holder of the world's boxing championship, is a pretty solid specimen of humanity. The, Sydney Referee states that the new champion is Oft. 7in in height and weighs 17 stone, and bis age is 27 years. lie has a reach of seven feet. Johnson, the black man, was 37 years of age, and weighed 14 stone at the time of his defeat. Mr. C. Farley has -been appointed manager of the Riverdale Company's dairy factory. Mr. Farley was at one time manager of the Kaponga factory, and more recently manager of a butter and cheese factory i at Ruawena, in the north of Auckland. There were twen-ty-two applicants from all over the Dominion, many of them being young men. The managership of the Riverdale factory is one of the prize positions of its kind in the Dominion, carrying a salary of £350 a year, with a free house, and other allowances.—Witness.

On Saturday iils'lit there was a large withering of members and supporters of the Tukupa Football Club at the Criterion Hotel- to farewell Mr. Charles Brown, a popular and valuable playing member of the club, and a Taranaki

representative footballer, on the eve of liia departure for the reinforcement tanip at Trentliam. Mr. James McLcod presided. Several speakers testified to the line spirit which had characterised the guest of the playing field, congratulated him on his patriotism, and wished him a safe return at the conclusion of hostilities. He was presented with a purse of soYcreigns and a wristlet watch.