PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lieut.-Colonel F. T. Bellinger It tit ft short visit to New Plymouth. A cable from Melbourne reports til* death of Mr. David Mitchell, father of Madame Melba. A cable from Sydney gays. that. Aroh« deacon Batchelor, who has been.' connected with Church missiohatJr"*wdtW in Japan for forty years, is a passenger for New Zealand in the Maitai.' The Very Rev. Dean Power, who hM been on an extended trip to tlie South Island during the paßt month, returned to Hawera on Friday evening much improved in Health. Mr. Hodgins, chai-man of the Pahlatua County Council, accompanied by the engineer, Mr. Dillon, is at presftbt on * visit to New Plymouth to insjfect thef crushing plant of the Taranalif'County Council. Mr. C. A. Barton, clerk of the Court, Auckland, is about to retire after 40 years' service. Prior to hja retirement he has been granted three months' leave of absence. Mr. Barton has been in X#w Zealand since 18G.">, when he arrived in the ship Andrew Jackson. At that time ho was in his third year, having been born in Birmingham in 1802. The friends of Mr. and Mrs, C, Malcolm, Opunake, will, says the Star, regret to hear of the death of their second uon, William, which took place at the Hawera Hospital on following an attack of infantile , paralysis. ? The lad became ill only a couple of days ago. The parents will have the sympathy of the community in their sudden and sad bereavement. The deceased waa a stwng I and healthy boy IS years of ag#f ' The death occurred at the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday of Douglas n, .Candy, of Manain, who died from Infantile paralysis. The boy, who was IT years old, was a boarder at the High School, and after a few days' illness he was sent to the hospital on Irlday. The deceased was a very popular boy »t school, and ho was prominently connected with all the school activities during the two and a half year* he wat there.