PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is announced of Mrs Cole, wifo of the Rev. G. G- Cole, of Katanui, Otago, but until recently of the i'ordell Presbyterian Church. Mr & C. Lewcy, (M.A., (fJj.B., (barrister and solicitor, of Wellington, lias (been appointed a Magistrate, and he is to be stationed on the West Coast, with, headquarters at WestportAmongst the passengers by the Niagara which reached Auckland from Ainsrica on Wednesday, were Mr and Mrs C. Giedhili and Miss Gledhill, and Mr Bert Whitcomlbe.

Colonel iD. S. Wylie, of New Plymouth, arrived in Ajickland by the Niagara on AVednesday morning. He is proceeding to Wellington, and will take up duties at the new Orthepaedie Hospital, Christchurch.

Mr J. Brown was yesterday re-elected Chairman of Directors of the Maketawa Dairy Company for the twenty-third year in succession.

Before commencing its business, the annual meeting suppliers of tire Mafc» tawa Dairy Company yesterday passed a vote of sympathy with the widow and family of the late Mr E, Kdlpaitriok, a director of the company whose death by accident occurred recently. The friends of (Dr. Mary Dowling will be interested to know that she has decided to begin a practice in Hawera. It will Ibe remembered that she attained the highest points in her final examina-

tion in. 1916 thus winning the travelling' scholarship for New Zealand. Owing to tli9 war she has so far 'been unalble to take advantage of this as the scarcity of doctors at the present time prevented her leaving New Zealand. Anna Held, the French actress, Ims died of pernicious anaemia, after seven months' illness, states a cable. Anna Held was a prominent musical comedy actress in America. She was ibprn in I Paris in 1878, and made her first appearance on the stage in London. Subsequently she sang at various music ihalls all over tiie Continent of Europe. She first appeared in New York in 1896, in "A Parlour Match-" The following' year she made a great Kit da "La Poupee." Later she played in many musical comely successes, notably "Miss Innocence."

The death i sannounced, at Adelaide, !of the Rev. Dr.. Sevan, well-known for many years as pastor of the Collins otreet Congregational Church, Melbourne. Some 20 years ago Dr. Bevan visited New Zealand at toho invitation of the Congregational Union, when he preached and lectured in the chief towns of the Dominion. (Born in Llanelly, Wales, in

1942, he had a brilliant scholastic careerat Lpndion and Princeton Universities, and began his ministry as assistant to

the late Rev. Thomas Binney, of King's Weigh House Chapel, London, author of the well-known hymn 'Eternal Light.' Another old resident of Lyttelton, Mr John Henry Newton, sen., died on Saturday'at his- residence in Exeter street. Mr. Newton was born at Deal, in the county of Kent, on January 22,

11826,. and landed in Lyttelton on 1559. He was the last of the Deal boatmen to come to Lyttelton to enter the pilot service, and he served in the capacity of pilot until the pilot station was shifted to the Lyttelton iHeads. Later ho followed the occupation of waterman and fisherman until his seventy-fifth year, when he retired. Ha leaves five sons and two daughters, 28 grandchildren and 4*5 great-grandchildren.