PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 278, 3 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. John, lloslop, has been appointed-a member of the Tanmaki Land' Board. Constable,lWarneford, of Hawara, has 'been aprminted to the. chacgo. o£ the Franktoiv. Junction station. Mr. C. iA. Marshall, a. wetl-kuown figure in Carterton, passed %',«a-y on Wednesday afternoon. 'Mr. r?red C. Foden, optician, of Haweva, has accepted a probationary appointment with the infantry reinforcements:

The. death is reported from Wellington of' Mr. Fulk Co&un, for many years a clotliicr in Willis Street, and 'formerly- a t city comu-il!vr>. An old and esteemed resident of Palmqrston North, ita< the., 'person of Mrs. Kirn, wife of Mr-: Edwin Kirk, died on Monday, at th* age of 75 years.

' Judge J. C. Jack, who. is presiding over : the sittiiiga of the, Native Land Com* at present being held in Opimake, spent the. week-end in New Plymouth.

. A tcltgram from Nelson records the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Lucas, widow of the- late. Robert Lucas, founder of the Nilwn Kvening Mail. She wa? uiue,ty--one years old.

Tho only lady candidate at the Auckland municipal elections, Miss Melville, came second at the poll of twenty-one candidates. Miss 'Melville ia a practising solicitor in the city, Mr. H. L. Homan, of the commercial staff of the Stratford Post, has received an appointment under the Taranaki Education Hoard us master of the Dudcy Eoad School.

Mr. A. E. Still, who is leaving shortly to join the reinforcements to tho Expeditionary Force, was entertained on Saturday evening at an informal gathering in the Picadilly Dining Rooms, and presented with a wristlet watch.

Major Burlinson, manager of the Weraroa Training Farm, lias just received word that his third son, who is with the British in Franco, haj been seriously wounded. Two of Major Burlinson's sons have already been killed on active service.

Norman Cadsby, now at Aberdeen University, but formerly of the Hawera District High School, has jußt passed with great credit an officers' military examination, in which 300- candidate!) competed. Although much ypunger than most of the men, he came second for the whole division.

Mr. Robert Simpson, of T, ""+erville, thinly son of the Hon. R. K. Simpson! M.L.0., died at bis parents' residence, Jionny Glen, on Tuesday, aged -18. Deceased was one of the first settlers in Rangitikci distriet, having come to Hunturville about 33 years ago. -He went to the Boer war with the Third Contingent, and saw a good deal of the operations connected with the earlier contingents.

Members of the legal profession in Eltham assembled at the Coronation Hotel on Thursday evening to bid farewell to Mr. J. MeVeagh, who has left tor Auckland. Mr. T. B. Crump presided and in presenting Mr. McVcagh with a suitably inscribed cigarette case and holder, referred to the departing gentleman's excellent qualities. He felt sure that only only would the legal profession regret Mr. MeVcagh's departure, but all the residents of Eltham. These remarks were endorsed by Mr. Gow, Mr. Weir, and others present, and an enjoyable evening was spent.

Among the many curious Anglo-Ger-man relationships 'brought to light by tho war, none is more remarkable than that which involves a .New Zealand family. It has been ascertained that Mr. Wilfrid Stapleton Bretherton, of the Royal Fusiliers—who is a cousin of Mr. A. C. Bretherton, of the Public Trust Office, Dunedin—is wounded and a prisoner in Germany. There is irony in the fact that his' brother-in-law is Count Gebliard Bluchcr von Wablstadt, eldest son and heir of Prince Bluc'ier, who married Miss Evelyn StapletonBrethertop, eldest sister of the wounded prisoner of war. Mr. A. C. Bretherton is son-in-law of Mr .J. Liddell Kelly, of Devonport. The new Mayor of Auckland, Mr. J. U. Gunson, lias many of the characteristics of liis predecessor, Mr. C. J. l'arr. Both are comparatively young men, and in their respective capacities as port chairman and Mayor have launched out on radical lines in connection with the services they have controlled. Mr. Gunson is 37 years of age, and is head of tin- firm of J. 11, Gunson and Co., seed end produce merchants. lie has been prominent in public life in Auckland since 11)10. when he was president of the Chamber of Commerce. He has been-chairman of the Auckland Harbor Board for four years, and under his 'planning the city has launched out upon a comprehensive scheme of land reclamation, which has already proved a great financial asset.