PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The late Lord Glentanar, director of J. P. Coats., Ltd., the famous sewing cotton firm, left £4,324,000. It is announced that Lord Reading has resigned the ambassadorship to America. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Adjutant Bladen, of the Salvation Army, who was a Chaplain with the New Zealand Forces, will be in New Plymouth again on Friday of this week. Dr. McLelland has resigned his appointment as port medical officer in consequence of the increasing duties seriously interfering with his private practice. A Melbourne cablegram reports the death of Sir William Williams, DirectorGeneral of the Commonwealth Medical Services.

It is currently reported in Eltham that the. Mayor (Mr. G. W. Tayler) will contest the Egmont seat at the general elections, says the Eawera Star. Dr. William Creser has been appointed examiner for New Zealand for the Trinity College of Music. He is booked to leave Vancouver for the Dominion early in August. Miss Leatham's many friends will be pleased to hear that she was again successful on Saturday at Christchurch, being first in the chief piano solo at the musical competitions. Two of the oldest officers of the legislative departments of the Government have resigned from their positions to retire from active work. These are Mr, Leonard Stowe, Clerk of Parliament, and Mr. J. F. Andrews, Secretary to the Executive Council and to Cabinet.

Major E. P. Cox, Group Commander, who has been feeling the effects of an old wound in the shoulder, is leaving HaWera this morning en route for Christchurch, where he is to undergo orthopaedic treatment. During his absence Lieut. T. J. Dallinger will have charge. The King has authorised Mrs. Alice Johnston, widow of the late Hon. C. J. Johnston, Speaker of the Legislative Council, to take the title and precedence to which she would have been entitled had her husband survived to receive the honor of Knight Bachelor. Cpl. Lan Pott, whose parents left New Plymouth some time ago to reside in the Transvaal (South Africa), was among the soldiers from the Northumberland who arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday evening. He has been on active service for over three and a half yars, during most of which he was in the arl'Uery. Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, a journalist well-known to the older pressmen of the Dominion, died at his residence at Wellington on Sunday, aged 74. He arrived in New Zealand over 50 years ago, and during the course of his journalistic career was associated with many newspapers, occupying the editorial chair of the Independent, New Zealand Times, and Chronicle, in Wellington, and of the Christchurch Telegraph and Poverty Bay Herald. He was a cousin of the late Lord Kelvin.

A Christchurch message reports the death of the Rev. Samuel Knight, father of the Rev. Perry Knight, of Durham Street Methodist Church, aged 85. Mr. Knight had a distinguished career in Australia. From 1856 he filled the chief pulpits in Victoria and South Australia till his retirement in 1900. He then did ten years' circuit work. In 1877 he was elected president of the South Australian Conference. He came to Christchurch in 1891.

Major W. A. Chappie, R.A.M.C., leaves New Zealand at the end of next -week on a business visit (writes a correspondent from Home. Major Chappie has for some years past been Liberal member in the House of Commons for Stirlingshire but was defeated at the general election in December. He is at present chairman of the London committee which is managing the prohibition campaign for the National Efficiency League of New Zealand. At Eaponga last week the returned soldiers on the Parkes Estate presented Mr. Jas. Stewart with a fountain pen, Mrs. Stewart with a tea set, and the children with a football. In the course of a few remarks, Mr. L. Jackson, on behalf of his comrades, regretted the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, and made the above presentations as mementoes in return for the kindness and consideration shown the soldiers, who had profited considerably by the advice and experience of Mr. Stewart. Mr. Stewart suitably acknowledged the gifts and kindly expressions. The Hev. Rollo E. St. John Hovell, priest in charge of the English Church at Hartley, Rhodesia, South Africa, lost his life in an attempt to save several boys who were bathing in the Umpoli river. The deceased was the youngest son of the late Dean of Waiapu." The appointment of Sir Ernest Rutherford to the position of Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge, was referred to by Dr. C. C. Farr, professor of physics at Canterbury College, in his presidential address to the Christchurch Philosophical Institute the other night. Dr. Farr said that the position had beeij held previously by Sir James Clark Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, and Sir Joseph J., Thomson, and that Sir Ernest Rutherford doubtless would regard the appointment as the greatest of many recognitions he had received. It showed that his work and genius, and they alone, had led those best able to judge—his fellow workers in physios—to recognise him as '.the most eminent physicist in the world at present. Dr. Farr added: "That Sir Ernest Rutherford may he long spared to enjoy the fruits of his labor and further enrich the world with the product of his wonderful fertility of mind and his great experimental skill is the ardent hope of this, his original university, and of the New Zealand Institute, which gains from his reflected glory by numbering him amongst its honorary members and its Hector medallists."