PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cable message announces the death of Mr. -Marshall Hall, .professor of music. 'Mr. H. J. Olcev. M.P., who has been In New Plymouth for the week-end, returned to Wellington by the mail train this morning. A Pellding message states that Mr. H. G. Stringer, at .present secretary of tiie Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, .has been appointed manager of the Oroua Freezing Company there, and will take up his duties in November.

Tlie Auckland University College Council decided yesterday to appoint Mr. J. P. Crossmann, M.A., to the chair of history and economy, which was recently created, at a. salary of £7OO per annum.—Press Association. JMr. D. iDalglcish, manager of the Union Company's Westport branch, is under treatment in a private hospital in Wellington. Mr. Pearson, of the .New 'Plymouth branch, is acting manager at West port. Friends of Mr. J. Sheeband and family will regret to hear that icaibled news was received on Thursday last to the effect that Private Tom SheeTSan was seriously ill in hospital ja Birmingham.—Stratford Post. ; Mr. Dudley Cameron, of Stratford, is in a very serious condition at the. Cambridge Sanatorium. Mr. Cameron returned from Egypt, some time ago as an invalid ami wai discharged as such from the forces.—Stratford Post. iSir Joseph Ward has received information that his sons, the Messrs Vincent i lß d Gladstone AVaril, have arrived in I sions in the Army and have gone into training. 'Major-General Da vies, who had a brigade fommand in tile great retreat from .Mons, had 'been sulTering from gastrie inlhn-nza for some months before the war, and ill-health eventually forced ihim to go to l.ngland again on the sick list, fie lias since recovered, and is now in command of tlie 20th Division of Kitchener's Xesv Armv.

with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon, near Tututawa, says' the ,'Stratford Post. lie was in the act of cranking <up a big Cadillac car, when the engine back-fired, and Hie crank handle crushed the hand and wrist very badly. Mr. Donald was alone at the time, and had to walk three miles to a camp before lie could got assistance. The Ili'V, Father F. Ba-i'tley, S.M., M-A„ o'f the iFaemlty of St. -Patrick's College, who has lately returned from a trip^t-o Australia, lias been transferred to Xrlson. I'ather iliartlcy is well known at Wellington, having been on the j>:ofcssorial stall' of the college for ,xome II year*. He leaves to take up his Dew duties to-dav.

'Hie engagement has been announced of Miss Mary Mackenzie, younger daughter of the High Commissioner fov N'e.v,- Zealand, and Mrs. Mackenzie. to r^iepl,-nan.t Montague K. Cliidson, of l'ic l!o\al Flying Corps, and ltoval <t;irri-,n Artil].-ry, only ,-on Mr. ami Airs, ilenry Chidsnn, of I'lantol. Kent, ! »." 1 S:l ckville S| n-ct. JVadill.v. I.' >tld i > 11. t'iii'-n:;ii( i Mid.-oii is at present- a pri-oii.-r „f «ar in iienuany. ' death incurred lust week <if Mr. .ram,-, Trent, formerly a well-known I'Usuie-s man of ChiUh-iiun-h. Mr. Trent »'as 1,01-11 ill 7S.lt at Old ford, Middlesex, England, ami was educated at London and at .Scarborough, lie entered mercantile life, in -London, and afterwards came to New Zealand in the ship Hydaspes, arriving at I,y Helton in lSiiO. He joined a, brother, Mr. E. W. Trent, ton general merchandise business in and six months later purchased hie brother's interest and took' a.n» other brother, Mr. flredcrick Trout,, into partnership. Mr. .Tames Trent retired from % partnership m 1887, but Mr. I F. Trent continued to carry on the Wine® of Trent Bros. 1