PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Word has been received in Hawera that Mr. John Currin died suddenly in Christchurcli on Monday. Mrs. (Dr.) Walker lias taken up nursing work at the New Plymouth Hospital in order to assist the staff in the present epidemic crisis. Mr. J. H. Hammond, manager of tho Bank of New Zealand, who underwent an operation in a private hospital last week, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. • The death is announced in the Wanganui papers of Mrs. George Rosa. Mis. Ross was a daughter of Mr. D. Bishop, one of tho early settlers of Taranaki, and was born in New Plymouth in 1845. Mr. A. Gray. Director of Technical Education for Taranaki, yesterday .fell a victim to the influenza epidemic, A cable has been received by Mr. C W. Taylor, of Inglewood, stating that his son. Private A. J. Taylor, tbas been removed from the seriously: ill list. The death, after is reported' of Private Benjamin Dive, who was on active service witib the Australian forces. The deceased soldier was a brother of Mr. E. Dive, of Eltiam, at present at the front The late Private Dive wu farming at *M*n for coias time, leaving there to take up land on the Darling Downs, Queensland. He -was well known in Ettham and was tctJ popular and much respected/--Argns.

The death is reported from influenza at Auckland of Mr. B. W. MeComnelL M-A, LLB_ of tho firm of GJateter and McConnell, barristers and solicitors. Ha was of a very kindly disposition, and was -well liked by all' his associates. He was a man of fine physique, weighing almost fourteen stone, and bad sot attained his thirtieth year, A widow; (formerly Miss Ethel Sheldon, of Wel-i lington) and one child survive mm. On Mday the death of Mr. J. E. Tew non. M.A.. BJSc Rector of Paimerston North District High School, took pJace from influenza. Mr. Vernon, who was 56 years of age, was educated in Edinburgh and came to New Zealand in 1887. After iholding masterships at. Waimate, Palmerston South, and InvercaxgilL he went to Palmerston North in 1892 to take charge of the College Sfcreet District High School. When the separate High School was established he was placed in charge. Mr. Vernon took a prominent part in the work of the Presbyterian Church in Palmerston.

The death from influenza of Mr. J, XL Malcolm, headmaster of Te Aro School, Wellington, ©ocurreu on Monday night. The late Mr. Malcolm was Iborn in Dunfermline, Scotland, in leßs. He finished his training as a teacher, at the Normal School and CaLterfrary College, Ohristchiireh. In ISS7 hf #ae appointed ausistant at the Greymouth District High School. After considerable service at Greymouth he joined the Wellington Education Board, and during the last 20. years had held the positions of headmaster at TeatheTstan, Scarborough, Mitchelltowni and Te Aro Schools-, TW late Mr. Malcolm was a very capable teacher and a man of genial disposition, and hia untimely deatti has come as a shock to his large eiitie of friends. He has left a widow and Jimily. His father died last year.—Dominion-

In connection with the open-air pjctura show to be given in the Recreation Qrounds to-night, in aid of the Pierrots' stunt, the Citizens' Band will assemble at the Melbourne corner at 7.15 pjn. and, after playing Borne selections, will match to the sports ground.

"There are f anrilies in whom a crimi* nal tendency has been traced for generations," Sir John Denniston said in an address recently. "One family in America is estimated to have cost the State £250,000 in seventy-five years. One such family at tenet is weU-tawro in this Dominion."

Speaking at the Haweia celebrations, Bean Power said: "A hundred, times during the past four yean I have been asked why.God did not stop the war; but God did not will the war any more than we did- He permitted' men and nations to go their way that they might learn to know what sin and f orgetf ulness of Him could lead. God made man free and will not limit his freewill, but the event is always in the hands of His providence, and will ever be as He arranges. This is a great day for us, but a day which the Lord has made. We have reason to rejoice in it; sreater reason, I imagine, than most of ua know; greater reason to cry out in the words of the inspired page: "Not to ns, 0 Lord, not to üb. but to Thy name be the glory.' The end of the war is not what the Germanic Empire hoped for^ lar * rom '*• Tiw result is not what we and our Allies hoped for, but far more glorious, because it has come, not according to the devising of our limited intelligence, ibut jn God's good way. Had the nations on the Germanic side been: nble to preserve their unnatural organisations, the war would not be ended now. The victory, lam convinced, would still be ours, even though the enemy kept united." The dean went oa to say that no doubt Marshal Foeh would have preferred to •rive the enemy the coup on. the battlefield, hut Providence had ordained otherwise, and the defeat had come by interna' strife and t!ip separation of races too lung kept together by unnatural and fictitious ibonda of empire; and this self separation would make possible tiie establishment of natural divisions with more facility than it could have been done by ft Peace Conference.

Under fIM heading of defalcations, tho sixth annual report of the PubKo Set*" vice Commissioners has a paragraph aa" follows: "Last year defalcations of * considerable amount were discovered t*> ,; have been made in the Mines Department. The Commissioners inquired into the case. The fraud was accomplished partly by means of forgery and partly •by manipulation of accounts, and was for a time concealed by unusual cleverness. Nothing was revealed to indicate any lack of alertness on the part of the Treasury or Audit Departments. Tike defalcations were rendered possible by the fact that the culprit was an old and trusted officer, who held a sufficiently high position in the department to be treated as both certifying and paying officer of accounts. This is a practice which should never bo allowed in tSie head office of any department, however small the department may be. TJ» offender was sentenced to a term of imprisonment;" It was proved at the Supreme CtmsA of Victoria, at Melbourne, that <£} SANDER'S EXTRACT is nroeh more powerfully healing and antiseptic than ordinary eucalyptus preparations; (2) SANDER'S EXTRACT does not depress the heart lfke the so-called "extracts" and crude dfla; (8) SANDER'S EXTRACT is highly commended by many authorities as a safe, reliable mi effective household remedy, Get ft* Aaanine—dnsiflt if sou ha****