PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram reports the death of Colonel Viekera, founder of the armament iffrm. The Otfigo University Council has appointed Mr. 17. D. Bedford professor of economics and history, at a salary of £7OO per annum. Mr. F. P. Kane, advertising clerk at tho Stratford branch of Mr. Newton King, has enlisted for the front, and has successfully passed the medical test. Mr. A. Coleman, who for the past seven years has held the office of D.O.A. for the Stratford district, has now resigned the appointment, which lias been conferred upon Mr. J. J). Richards. Dr. Anson has been elected without opposition to a seat on the Victoria College Council to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Hon. A. L. Ilerdman. Mr. Thompson, purser on the Niagara. has volunteered for active .service, and lie will be succeeded by Mr. Davis. On the voyage over from the Pacific Coast to Auckland, Mr. Thompson was presented with a gold watch and a wristlet watch by the officers and erew, and the passengers gave him a silver cigarette case as a souvenir. Mr. M. Cohen, editor of the Dime-din Star, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Cohen, was a through passenger from Vancouver to Sydney by the Niagara on Monday. Mr Cohen attended the Press Conference, held recently in San Francisco, and toured in various parfs of America. He proposes to first visit Australia before returning to Dunodin. The remains of the lion. ,). .\. Millar were interred in (he Nolhern cemetery at Ouneiiin, on Wednesday. The Hon. James Allen represented the National Ministry. The pall-bearers were Messrs. Hawthorne Millar (son of deceased I, Walter Millar (cousin), Ciillin and Tilsey (nephew). Canon Small, vicar of' St. Mary's, Mornington, oflieiated. Trooper J. Hughes, whoso death was referred to in yesterday's News, was a son of Mr. Dan Hughes, of Kapuni, and was born in Manaia in 1882. He died last Sunday in the American Women's Hospital in England from wounds received at the Dardanelles on August 27. Trooper Hughes went with the Wellington Mounteda of the Fourth Reinforcements. He was a keen footballer and played for the Waimate Club, for Waipawa (Hawke's Bay), and wa3 in the Hawke's Bay representative team which met the Englishmen in 100 S. Mr. W. J. Williams, an old settler of Wuvei'ley. died on Sunday at the age of T!'*."- \e»ix The 'l'alea Press states that lie'was horn at Anglcsca in North Wales, but when quite a lad he left home for liendigo, Australia, with a number of others who came to New Zealand, and was for a time on the goldflelds of Otago. Later on he went to Christchurch, and after farming in the Canterbury district for a lime he inme to Waverlev, where he had resided for the past 2, r > years, lie leaves a widow, three sons and one daughter--Messrs. .lack and Owen Williams, of Waverley; Mrs. Phimmer, who is now in the Taranaki district; and Mr. i William Williams, of Christchurch.