PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable announces thedeath ot Sir diaries Wyndham. the well-known actor -and manager of ths Criterion Theatre. He was 81 years of ago and , was knighted in 1902. The Eev. W. A. Sinclair left yeatwdajJ to pay official visits to some of ilw circuits in the South Tanunalti district He expects to return to Now Plymouth about Thursday. Plain-clothes Constable Fitzgibbon, of the Hew Plymouth police, who has been on sick leave for tho past fow months, returned to duty yesterday. Mr. J. H. Sheat, of Hawera, has received information from the University of New Zealand that at the law examinations held in November last he gained passes in four eobjects and is cow en* titled to the degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B4.

Colonel C. M. Begg succeeds SurgeonGeneral Henderson as Director-General of Medical Services. He has been on active service sinco 1914 and will rotors to New Zealand as soon an poealMar-i Prcßs Association. , The Base Eocords Office has recatved cable advice tb&t the Distinguished SeT -vice Order has been awarded to Major Geoffrey Armstrong Buddie. As he is not a member of thn New Zealand Expeditionary Forces his mst-of-ldn is unknown hero.

Tho conference of tho New Zealand Educational Institute has appointed Mr. H. A. Parkinson, at present headmaster of the Nowtown school, to the position of organising secretary, and Mr. C. J. McKittnon to that of editor of the Journal of Education.

In the latest hospital and progress if port appears the names of Privates F. Hutchings (Qmata) and C. Lovell (Hawera), who are reported as not sows cases.

On Friday afternoon Major Iter, D.5.0,. arrived ia Waverley by the mail train and was met at the atatLofiby a j number of friends and memborß of the Patriotic League. The Eev, D. Mclvor, on behalf of the residents of Waverloy and tbo Patriotic Leaguo, extended a hearty wdnomo homo to Major For. One of Nonnanby's oldost and most respected residents in the persqn of Mr. William Rowo has left the town to reside in Now Plymouth. Mr. Rowc, during his nearly 40 years' residence in Nonnauby (says the Star's correspondent), has been associated with all the public bodies .and has taken a prominent part in the advancement of the> town, M one of the originators of tie Horticultural Society and a prominent worker ha willA* .much jitiseed.