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Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable announces the death of Mr. Fred Terry, the actor. Captains Hawkins and McDiarmid, arrived in New Plymouth last night by the mail train on their final leave.

Mr. Mellsopp, who was one of the victims of the Ohakune fatality, was the son of the late Mr. James Mellsopp, who for many years was headmaster of the public school at Mangere, Auckland. The death is reported from Hokitika of Mr. Peter Walker, a very old residlent, aged 70 years. He was formerly ' captain of the fire brigade, and was a gold-star holder.

Rev. John Nixon, of Christelturoh, and late of New Plymouth, has been appointed to succeed Rev. F. L. Frost (who has enlisted) in the pastorate of Edendale Methodist circuit.

Mr. Geo. Palmer, an old resident of the Manawatu district, died at Bunnyt'horpe on Saturday, in his 81st year. Mr. Palmer served in her Majesty's Royal Lancers in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. He was a prominent member of the Veterans' Association.

Last Friday was the eighty-second birthday of the Very Rev. Dean Binsfield, S.M., who has spent 50 years in New Zealand. He arrived here in the early 'sixties, and Taranaki was the first scene of his labors, where he was military chaplain. It was on the West Coast gold diggings that Dean Binsfleld became best known, and his name is still familiar to the old gold diggers of the early gold-mining days of the Coast. The Dean has retired from active work, and is resting at St. Mary's Seminary; Greenmeadows. He is the longest ordained priest in the New Zealand Mission, and at the sarne time the longest professed member of the Society of Mary.