PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. P. Hughson has been re-elected chairman of the Opunake Harbor Board. Mr. Arthur Ilenry M. Wright, of Patea, lias been appointed engineer to the Kairanga County Council.

Messrs H. J. Okey, M.P. for Taranaki, and Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P. for Taumarunui, leave by the mail train this morning for Wellington in readiness for the opening of the session to-morrow. Lieutenant Gray, of the Stratford Defence OlTice, is asking headquarters to be relieved to undergo a slight operation to enable him to proceed to the front. Lieutenant Gray expects to get away at on early date, Lieutenant Stenhouse, commander of the. Aurora, has informed the Prime Minister that he will probably visit England, returning to rejoin his ship when it leaves about November for the Antarctic to relieve the waiting explorers. Dr. E. W. Sharman, of Auckland, who has been in charge of the medical services at the Eangiotu Camp for some time past, has been called upon at notice to take charge, as principal niedicajl officer, of a transport. The rank of major has been conferred upon him. At the rooms of the New Plymouth Association Football Club, on Saturday evening, Mr. C. Lealand, who is leaving this morning by the mail train to join the 16th Reinforcements, was entertained by his club-mates. Mr. J, Ryan presided, and a couple of pleasant hours were spent in song and story, eulogistic references to the departing volunteer being made.

An engagement of general interest is announced between Misg Mary Selwyn, a daughter of the late Bishop" John. Sehvyn, of Melanesia; and the Rev. Charles Palmer, of Wellington (a son of the late Archbishop Palmer, of Norfolk Islands) says an exchange. Bishop Selwyn and Archbishop Palmer were for years closely associated with the work of the Melanesian Mission. Three deaths of old residents of the Wanganui district are recorded, their combined ages totalling 204 years. At Waverley, Mrs. Isabella Taylor, widow of the late Mr. Thomas Taylor, merchant of New Deer, Aberdeenshire, died on Tuesday, at the great age of 92; on Monday Mr. John Morgan, of Durie Hill, Wanganui, passed away at the age of 87; and on the same day Mr. Charles Thomas Page died at the Wanganui Hospital at the age of 85. The London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times states that the following New Zealanders have recently received commissions on H.M.S. Avenger:—As lieutenant-engineers, A. L. Gatland, of Onehunga; J, S. Wells, of St. Albans, Christchurch; and R. Cook, of St. Leonard's, Dunedin; and as sub-lieutenant engineers, Messrs W. H. Richardson, of Balclutha; H. H. Wilson, of Mosgiel, Dunedin; G. H. McLeod, of Grafton, Auckland; W, J. Urquhart, of Musselburgh, Dunedin; and T. McLaren, of Dunedin.

■Mr. W. Barlow, ex-borough inspector of Stratford, lias completed arrangements for leaving for the Home Country by the Turakina from Wellington on Saturday next. At present (says the iPost) it i« not Mr. Barlow's intention to .return to the Dominion, but after a visit to the land of liia birth, Lancashire, it is possible lie may change his mind. Barlow, despite the peculiar nature of the work attaching to the position of a borough inspector, made few enemies; in fact, lie made many friends, whose chief delight was in recalling instances of the inspector's absolute impartiality in the discharge of his duties. ..