PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reported of ex-Constable H. Salmon, formerly stationed at Manaia.

Mr. W. Loveridge, Omata, has received word that his, son Leonard is returning with draft 237 on the lonic, due 23rd inst.

Mrs. J. Marsh, Egmont Village, lias received advice that her son, Private A. P. Marati, is returning on the Earanga, due at Wellington about April 23. The captain of the liner Orißsa, which is shortly expected at New Plymouth, arrived in New Plymouth last night, and will inspect the harbor to-day. Mr. H. J. Lowe, formerly chief draughtsman at New Plymouth, and lately at Auckland, has* taken up his new dutiea as Commissioner for Crown Lands at Marlborough. The Rev. A, M. Johnson, of St, Paul's parish, Wetyington, has been appointed Archdeacon of Wellington, to fill the vacaney caused by the sudden death of Archdeacon Fancourt

Mr- Wm. MeCutchan, farmer, of Wliangamomona, has been appointed a member of the Revaluation Committee under the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1915, in the Taranaki Land District.

At Eltham, on Friday, Miss Winifred Amelia, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Corbett, was married to Mr. Thomas P. Cowevn, son of Mr. F. Cowern, of Kawhia, and formerly of Eltham.

At Eltham, last -week, Mr. Geo. H Buckeridge, who is taking up his residence at Hawera, was presented by the members of the local Anglican Church (in which he has been an ardent worker) with an oak-framed hostel painting, eulogistic references being made by several speakers to his past services. Mrs H. Johns, Eiverlea, has just received a letter from the chaplain saying that it was in the thick of the battle where his battalion was taking Le Queanoy that her brother, Rifleman Frederick W. Cassidy, fell, and that he had proved a fine soldier. Rifleman Cassidy left with the 35th Reinforcements.

At a meeting of the directors of the Taranaki Producers' Freezing Works Co., Ltd., on Monday, a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. J. B. Connett, who was chairman from the, time of the inception of the original company in 1806 until the formation of the present company in 1901, when he was again appointed chairman, and held office for the following eight years. Some interesting facts about the President's" paternal grandfather are given by the New York Times:—"ln 1807 a County Down youth named James Wilson landed in Philadelphia, and got work as a printer—that old craft of adventures and wanderers and small purses stuffed with hope. He roamed an Ulster girl who had 'come over' in the same emigrant ship. He thrived as a printer and editor in Pittsburg, whence his ison, after learning the trade, went to college and became a Presbyterian minister, after the fashion of so many Ulsterites—'black-mouth Presbyterians,' as a phrase of.mysterious origin and rancour calls them. He took for a wife in 1849 Jessie Woodrow, daughter of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, settled at the famous town of /Carlisle. The Woodrows emigrated t&wCanada, and thenoe to Ohio. The younger Wilson was mostly a professor. In 1855 he became pastor of a church in Staunton, Virginia, and there, sixty-two years ago to-day, was bom the child who, by whatever various gifts of will, genius, destiny, energy, industry and ambition, prudently and fortunately directed, is now the guest of Kings, the hope and favorite of many peoples, perhaps the foremost man in all this world.

The example of Sir Ernest Rutherford, who has been appointed Director of Physics to the Cavendish laboratories of the University of Cambridge, should inspire other young New Zealanders to emulation. Sir Ernest, who was one of a family of twelve, started school at Havelock, Pelorus Sound, in charge of which was an enthusiastic teacher who conducted an early morning Latin class. Ernest Rutherford and his brother .Tames used to get up at 5 a.m. and work hard at their studies. This habit never left Ernest, for no examination afterwards ever presented any difficulty, he gaining scholarships that enabled him to pay his way through to Cambridge University, where he proved equally brilliant, obtaining every award and every honor possible, and achieving success after success in the domain of science until he came to be regarded as one of the world's greatest scientists. Now, after receiving every honor in the gift of the universities of Europe and America, gaining the Nobel prize for science, and occupying two very important posts, he has been given the highest scientific position in the world, that of Director of Physics at Cambridge University, where as a student he worked so brilliantly. New Zealand has turned out some men who have made their mark in the world, but none so much as Sir Ernest Rutherford. It is worthy of note that his father and mother, now past the allotted span, but still hale and hearty, aTe living in retirement in New Plymouth.