PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir George Clifford will be a visitor to New Plymouth next week. Mr. G. L. Petersen, touring manager for Wirth's Circus, was in New Plymouth yesterday, making arrangements for a two nights seaaoji, opening on Friday, February 25. I Mess hi C. P. Skerrett, K.C., and M. Myers, of Wellington, arrived In N*w 'Plymouth last night. They are visithig liere in connection with the sitting of the Supreme Court. Captain VV. .T. Hardham, V.C., who I wm returning invalided to New Zasland by the Rotorua, disembarked at Hobart in order to undergo a slight operation, The date of hia arrival in Wellington i$ uncertain. Judge Wilson, of the Native Land Court, lias (states, the Auckland Star), definitely declined the appointment of Judge of the Court at Earotonga, Which position the Government is - separating from that of Resident Commissioner.

The Rev. A. Hardie, who enlisted as a private in the Ambulance Corps, and joined the Awapuni Medical Training Camp in November last, has been appointed Presbyterian; chaplain to the 10th Reinforcements.

Mr. E. Clifton, who has been acting M Commissioner for New Zealand at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, and his chief assistant, Mr. O'Brien, are returning to .Wellington by the next 'Frisco boat. Mr. A. E. Russell, of Knox TheoloI gical College, Dunedin, who has for the past few months been in charge of the Okato Presbyterian Church, has volunteered for military service, and leaves at the end of March, preparatory to going into camp early in Marth. By the death early last week Of Mrs. Samuel Curry, of Robinson's Bay, Banks Peninsula loses another of its old residents. Mra Curry was a daughter of the late Mr. J. P. Mullins, of Akaroa, In 1878, she married Mr. Samuel Curry, and went to live in Robinson's Bay, where she had since resided.

Lieut. Wilson, of the Otago Battalion, reported as having been '•mentioned in dispatches," is a eon of Mr. C. G. Wilson, Wellington manager of Messr* Sargoed, Son, and Ewen. Born in Melbourne, twenty-two years ago, he was educated at Invercargill and the Otago High School, and when ho enlisted he frit in charge of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co.'s works at Balfour. He lift New Zealand with the Main . Expeditionary Force aB 2nd lieutenant. Be has been shot twice, and in November last he was promoted to the position of captain.

A Press Association cable menage from Adelaide announces the death of the Hon. Sir Jaineg F. Boucaut, a retired judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia. He was AttorneyGeneral in the Haft Ministry in 1803, and afterwards became Premier, As Commissioner of Public Worlds he initiated the "broad and comprehensive policy" of public works. In 1878 lie was elevated to the bench. He held high rank in masonry, and as the owner 1 of the Quambi estate, near Mount Barker, was known ae a breeder of pure Arab horses. He is the author of Tho Arab —the Horse of the Future.'! He w|f made a ft.C.M.G. in 1808.