PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J- W. Connell,. who was recently appointed agricultural instructor under the Taranaki Education Board, lias arrived to take up his duties. Mr- A. Morton returned iart night from Wellington, where lie ilias been on liusiiioissi connected with the dairv .Industry. -i The latest hospital report, published contains the names of the following Taranaki men: —Still dangerously ill, R. •Jones (Kairaata). Improving, T. S. Cox (Patea). Hot severe case. Sergeant F. •J. Isrownlie (Stratford). Superintendent Kielv, of the Auckland Police, and Inspectoj Hendry, of Wanginui, were in New Plymouth yesterday engaged in official business connected with the local police. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert StcfTit) says the Dominion, will leave for New Plymouth this morning, where he 'will preside at the sittings of the Supreme Court, which ope n at 11 a.m. 01; Mary day.

The many friends of Captain G. F. Uertrand, of TJrenui, will be sorry to hear he lias been admitted to hospital in England with trench fever. He ha 3 just lately been promoted to captain, and all wish him a speedy recovery. Mr. L. Hansen, of Ohristclmrch, formerly well known in Taranaki dairy circles as factory manager, and as Government grader at Moturoa, is at present visiting New Plymouth. Regret was expressed yesterday when the death of Miss Helen Robeon, of Eliot street, became known. Miss Rob?on lia-s been in the music teaching profession for many years, with considerable success. She succumbed to an acute attack of typhoid. Her relatives reside in England. Miss Ivy Sutherland, who is leaving Inglewood to reside in New Plymouth, was on Thursday evening entertained ! by the members of the congregation and Choir of the Inglewood MN.hodist Church at a social evening in the Scout I 1 Musical items were rendered .by Miss White, Mr. and Mrs. Skelton (New Plymouth), Messrs M. and L Sutherland, A. Stockman, arid the Inglewood Orchestra. During the evening Mr. E. Taylor, on behalf of those present, presented Miss Sutherland with a handsome initialled ebony-back hair brush and mirror

"The new appointment at Jerusalem is a singularly happy one" (writes a correspondent of the Daily News and Leader), who met Colonel Ronald Storrs on a number of occasions in Egypt during the anxious weeks preceding the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal). ■Since his appointment to the Oriental ■Secretaryship at the British Agency in Cairo nine years ago, Colonel Storrs has played the part of a wonderfully tactful and well-informed peacemaker. He is a brilliant linguist, and is reputed to better able to find his way through the labyrinth of Cairene native 'politics' than any other man. He has made it his business to gain an'intimate personal knowledge of the habits and customs of the multitude of sects and races that go to make up a population such as that of Jerusalem. It is certain that Egypt as well as Anglo-Egypt, will congratulate him; and there could be no higher compliment. Colonel Storrs is a son of the Deaij of Rochester and 36 years of age."