PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death ia reported .from Featherston of an old settler, Mr. Josej/h Henry Hodder. The appointment of Mr. T- E. M&unsell to be S.M. at Westport is gaze.tted.— Press Assn. Generals Birtfwood and Monash have been given the honorary degree of LL.D. by Cambridge University. Mr. S. P. Hull, Hine Street, has re- | ceived advice ttat his son, Trooper P. C. Hall, ia returning by the Ulimaroa, due about August 6. A London cable states that King George has acepted President Wilson's invitation to the Prince of Wales to spend a few days at Washington and New York after his Canadian visit. Lieut.-Colonel J. Mitchell has been appointed organiser for tho Returned Soldiers' Association for the Wellington Provincial District, which includes Marlborough and Nelson. The death is reported by cable of Sir Edward H. Holden, chairman of the London City and Midland Bank. He was born in 1848, and was a member of the House of Commons from 1900 to 1910. Mr. 0. R. Tylee, of Kaliui Road, Rahotu, has received advice that his son, Private W. A. Tylee, is returning to New Zealand by the Matatua, which arrives at Auckland on August 8. At the meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Plymouth High Schools on Tuesday regret was expressed that Mr. F. W. Atkinson had not sought re-election to the board as a representative of the parents, and it was decided to record appreciation of the services rendered by him to the board. At Island Bay, Wellington, on Wednesday evening a farewell social was tendered to Rev. J. G. Castle, who has beeJMtransferred to Eltham. Mr. Barnes presided. A purse of sovereigns was presented to Mr. Castle on behalf of the parishioners. Mr. 0. Proctor and the churchwardens eulogised the work of Mr. Castle, and expressed sorrow at his transfer. The Island Bay bowlers presented the Rev. Castle with a case of pipes. ' '

An old- colonist and veteran of the Maori War, Major Andrew Burns, died at Auckland early on Saturday morning at the age of 81. Major Burns arrived in New Zealand by the ship Mermaid in 1860. He went across the WaitakAres in 1801, with the idea of taking up land. He later went through the Maori War as a lieutenant Of the Third Waikato Regiment, and was afterwards captain of the Hobson Rifles, receiving appointment as major of the New Zealand forces in 1806. He was for 30 years manager and secretary of ,the Dunedin Hospital Board. ■ •

At the very advanced age of 03 years, Mrs. Skinner passed peacefully away yesterday, making, another gap in .the roll of the pioneer settlers of New Plymouth. The deceased lady was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Veale, who arrived here by the Amelia Thompson on September 3, 1841, with .theii; family, coming from Houlsworthy, in Devon. She was then about lis years of age, and was married five years later to Mr. Thomas Jungwil! Skinner, who died in 1874. The two surviving Sons are Messrs T, K. and W. H. Skinner, to both of whom the sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends will be extended.

L. Loveday, the winner of ,tbe King's Prize, is 28 years of age. He ia a son of Mr. Georgo Loveday, who has shot brilliantly at association meetings in New Zealand since 1800. Loveday, sen. (the Wellington Post states) was a member of the Woodville rifle team which established a world's record for five men at 200, 500, and 600 yards with the Martini-Henry rifle at] the Federal meeting at Oamaru in 1896, when the team beat the - crack'teama of Queensland, Victoria, and New South Wales. Leslie Loveday was a member of tho 1911 Bisley team, shooting brilliantly at Home, and winning a place as New Zealand's sole representative in the Prince of Wales' Competition—one of the most select and keenly-contested matches fired I annually at Bisley. He secured several big prizes on the great convincing grojind, getting a place in the final stage of the King's Hundred. At the New South Wales and Victorian meetings in 1911 he shot well, winning several prizes. Seven years ago he was looked upon as the finest marksman New Zealand had ever produced, and ho has now warranted that opinion of good judges. He first shot at Trentham in 1908, and was the youngest man to secure the New Zealand championship;