PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Will Lawson, poet -and writer, is on a visit to New Plymouth.

A Washington cablegram reports that President Wilson is worse, and a nerve specialist has been called in. The Prince of Wales has decided not to make a tour of the United States, but merely to spend three days in Washington. Miss Chrissy White, of the Lands and Survey Department, who has been transferred to the Northland Land District Office, let by the Rarawa laat night. Among the men who arrived in the Dominion last week, from Australia, was Pic. R. D. Bakewell, of the Bth M.G, Co. (Viekers), 6th Battalion, son of Mr J. Bakewell, of Waitui. Private Bakewell. who has served over three years with the Australian Forces, left New Zealand with the Sixth Reinforcements, contracted enteric in Egypt, re-enlisting in Australia, and has seen a good deal of hard fighting. Amongst the soldiers returning by the Remuera, appears the name of StaffSergeant Carl I. Weston, second son : of Mr H. Weston, of "Becklands," Inglewood. Staff-Sergeant Weston left the Dominion with the Main Body Taranaki Mounted Rifle 3, having enlisted in Waitara over five years ago as a trooper.

A Reefton message reports the death of Mr William Hindmarsh in his 84th year. lie was one of the best known managers of mines and a prominent Mason. He was author of ".Tales of Golden Rest."

Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., arrived in Eltham by the mail train last night. He is accompanied by Messrs Harris, M.P. for Waitemata, and Anderson, M.P. for Mataura, who are to be his guests over the week end. Messrs J. M. Dickson, M.P. for Port Chalmers, and "C. E. Ptathnm. M.P. for Dunedin, will arrive in Eltham by the mail train tonight and will also be the guests of Mr Wilkinson. The visit, it is understood, lias no political significance: being merely of a private nature. It is Mr Wilkinson's Mention to motor the members, some of whom are making their first visit here, to various points of interest in Taranaki, with the object of showing them the productivity and possibilities of this fine province. Included in the itinerary is a trip around the mountain via Opunake, tomorrow, arriving in New Plymouth in the afternoon, when a visit will be paid to the harbor and the various beauty spots with' which New Plymouth abounds.

The late Rev. Wm. Ernest Holland, M.A., who died on May 29 last, at Oxford, England, was the only son and child of Rev. Wm. Bolland, first vicar of St. Mary's, New Plymouth. The deceased was born in the old stone parsonage, Courtenay Street, Te Henui, on May 20, 1847, three days before his father's untimely death. It was a singular coincidence that the death of the son took place on the anniversary of the father's death.- The Oxford Magazine for June 20, 191 D, gave an obituary notice in which not only the appointments of the deceased were noted, and his work as headmaster of Worcester Cathedral School, but also his scholastic attainments and his services to the State as an feducatiocahst. Up to the end of his life he maintained a. keen interest in the affairs of N<>\v Piymouth and the Parish of St. &&l% . '" ' \