PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

I The name of Biigsuliev-Gcnoral A. I ('arton ill' Wiart, V f', DS.O., icccnlly ; appeared in the list of wounded lor the ■ niuth time. ' Anions the New Zealanders nominated during November by General Godley to be trained as officers was C.S.M. F. W. : H. Sheppard, of New Plymouth. A Vancouver cablegram reports the death of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, late British Ambussador to Washington. ,Sir ■ Cecil was 5!) years of age, ami had passed ■ his whole adult life in the diplomatic [ service. 'Air. J. H. Upton, Auckland, a director 1 of the Bank of New Zealand, is at present slaying at the North Egmont 'Mountain House. Mr. Upton is engaged ill a motor tour of Taranalci. In the casualty list published yesterday the name of R. U. Johnstone (L. Johnstone, Auroa, mother) appears among those died of sickness. In the hospital report the name of Corporal C. E. Morshead (Haweru) appears among the list, of not. severe cases. On Monday of last week Mr Edward G. M. Kenny, Government Land Valuer, was thrown from his horse at C'ollingwood and was so seriously injured that he died on Friday, ./he late Mr. Kenny was born at the Hutt in May, 1860, aud was the eldest son of the lion C. A. W. T Kenny, M.L.C. Sir Henry Miller, ex-Speuker of the Legislative Council, who died last week. , is survived by Lady Miller, one daughter—Mrs. St- John Buckley—and live sons. The sons are "Messrs Henry and William Miller, who are farming at Danncvirke: Lieutenant-Colonel George Miller, of the liupwial Field Artillery, ,and now on active service; Mr Charles Miller, /arming on the West Coast, and Mr Arthu.- Miller, who remains at the home of the family, Fernbrook. The deatn is announced of Mrs. John Blali', at Wellington at the age of 75 years. She leaves a grwn-up family of three daughters and three sons, viz., Mrs. Grant (widow of the Rev Wm. Grant, who ivas killed at Gallipot]), Mrs Galloway (invercargill), Mrs- Stm (Christchurcli), and Messrs J Blair (Wanganui), Walter Blair (Nelson), and Rev W. C. Blair (Invercargill). Acting under medical advice, the Rev. T. X. Griffin, of the Dunedin Methodist Church, will apply to the coming annual conference to be made a permanent supernumerary. M, Griffin lias been in the activi) ministry thirty-eight, years, having entered it under the Wesleyan Conference. England, and continued in it in New Zealand since 1882, since which time he has labored in Wellington and other circuits. The death of Mr. Andrew Ross Kirk, eminent in Masonic circles, occurred in Christclmrch. 'Deceased was born in Zealand in the early days, and joined Mr. John Anderson as blacksmith's foreman in the Canterbury Foundry Company. Later Mr. Kirk accepted a position at the Addington workshops as manager of a department. Retiring on Miperannuatioj} ihe lived in Christchurch till his death. lie leaves a son. Mr. A. R. Kirk, solicitor, and several daughters, one of whom occupies a position in the Napier College. On Monday there passed away, at the residence of her son, Mr J. Spence Bryant, of Motueka, Mrs Bryant, aged 91. Mrs. Bryant came out 57 years ago and shared all the hardships of the early days- For 31 years she taught at River terrace,, and while there endeared herself to hundreds of pupils. She ceased teaching some 25 years ago and has since made her home chiefly with her son, i\tr. W. II Bryant. Eight of her children snrvioe her Her husband died 10 years ago. The Auckland Herald states that the body of the Rev, A. H. Col vile was placed in St. Sepulchre's Church on Wednesday evening, and a vigil was kept throughout the night by members of the vestry and the choir. A funeral service was to "be held at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, The interment will take place in England. During the course of the Lenten service in the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday the Rev. W. G Monckton referred to the late vicar's remarkable? gifts as an orator, and said that his death .would cause a loss to the diocese. As a mark of respect, the congregation stood in silence. Information has been received by MrJ. Ziman, of Auckland, that his son, Mr. S. ft". Ziman, the first Auckland Rhodes scholar, has been gazetted captain in an Indian cavalry regiment, and appointed to the staff of Brigadier-General Roberts, C.B, at Meerut Captain Ziman was in the Indian Civil Service after leaving Oxford Just before the war 'broke out he arranged to visit New Zealand, but was prevented from doing so. He then volunteered io rejoin King Edward's Horse, to which corps he belonged whilst at Oxford, but the Indian Government would not allow any officers of its service to leave India Some two years ago a request was-made for officers for the Indian Army from the Civil Service, and Mr. S- N. Ziman joined the 35th Seinu Horse as a lieutenant. He was stationed at Jubblapore and Kashmir i for training. : The widow of Edward Morris, the Chicago packer, who lately married Ml' ' (Francis Neilson, cx-M.P. for the Ilyde Division of Cheshire, is one of the wealthiest women in the world, her fortune being estimated at :C 12,1)00,000. Colossal a:: is that figure, however, it is exceeded by the fortune of Mrs. K. A, ITnrriinan, estimated at over £20,000,000, and that of Fran Krupp von Bolilen, which was assessed at £14,000,000 in January 1014, and must have been considerably inflated by the war. Next to 1 Frau Krupp, Europe's wealthiest woman < would seem to lie Madame Lebaudy, I who controls £8,000,000, but lives in a ' modest one-servant Hat at Versailles, •' and devotes most of her income to char- 1 ity- s