PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Justice Stringer and Mrs. Stringer, who have been visiting New Plymouth leave for Wangamii .to-day. A private cable has been received in New Plymouth from Surgeon-Major Q. Home, who was invalided to England some time ago, stating that he was very well and wa 8 sailing for somewhere east. Mr. D. Cormack, a well-known Dunedm bowler, and this year's champion of champions, has enlisted for active service. Professor C. Owen, of the Auckland University College, has also enlisted.

One of Wanganui's oldest residents, Mrs. S. A. Gibbons, relict of the late Mr. Robert G. Gibbons, passed away on Monday morning. She was ft daughter of the late Captain R. Scott, was torn in London, and came out to Tasmania with ber parents when a child of four. The family lived in Australia till 1880, and passed through many vicissitudes during the early pioneering days. The late Mrs. Gibbons was married seventytwo years ago, and resided in Wanganui for the last sixteen or seventeen years. Mr. E. H. Cavell, Inspector of' Post Offices, is now in the district on an official visit (says the Hawera Star). Mr. Cavell was recently in the Te Kuiti district, and rode on horseback from there fo Taranaki. He came by way of.Tongaporutu, Kutango, and Kotare, a route that is rot usually taken by travellers from that district. He says the trip is delightful and full of interest. There is much good country in the high lands. The route is in many places along a sixfoot track, where the bush and fern brush the traveller as he goes through. The trip covered over a hundred miles, j