PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Archdeacon Evans returned from Auckland by the Rarawa yesterday morning. Mr Hugh Fraser, who returned to New Plymouth last week, will rejoin the staff of the Taranaki Daily News next week. In response to numerous and insistent reque.-ts, Mr James Clarke has consented to become a candidate for the Mayoralty of New Plymouth. A London cable reports the death of Sir Charles Ralph Campbell, Bart., who came to New Zealand in 1574 and engaged in sheep farming. He subsequently married a daughter of the Hon. Wm. Robinson, of Cheviot Hills. The Otago University Council vesterday appointed Dr. Robert James" T. 8011, at present senior lecturer in mathematics at Glasgow University, to the position of professor of mathematics at the Otago University. There were ten candidates. Dr. Bell, who is 42 years afje, will take up dut'ies early next year.—-Press Association. **.

It will be of interest to many in .this district to learn that cable news has been received to the effect that Dr. MacDiannid, who went Home some months ago, has received the degree of F.K.C.S., Edinburgh.—Hawera Star. A telegram from Dunedin states that a meeting of the Diocesan Synod last night, elected the Veil. Archdeacon Richards, of Invercargill, as Bishop of Dunedin in succession to Bishop Neville. This decision has to be confirmed by the standing committee of each diocese.— Press Assn.

Sergeant L. Loveday, winner of the King's Prize at Bisley fo r 1919, returned by the Adolph Woermann last week. Sergeant Loveday, who is 2S years of age. is a son of Mr George Loveday, who has shot brilliantly at association meetings in New Zealand since 189(3. Sergeant Loveday was a member of the 1011 Bisley team, shooting brilliantly at Home, and winning a place as New Zealand's sole representative in the Prince of Wales' competition. He secured several big prizes on this occasion, 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 lias ever produced, and he has now warranted that opinion of good judges. He first shot at Trontham in 1908, and was the youngest man to secure the New Zealand championship.

Many friends in Hawera and district will, states the Star, regret the death of Mr Thomas Taylor, which occurred at the residence of his daughter. Mrs A. Prince, C 9 Victoria Street, at an early hour on Sunday morning, after a shoi't and painful illness. Mr Taylor, until four months ago, was foreman for Quin Bros, for the past thirteen years. He was a man of sterling character and highly esteemed. He was a member of the Hawera Bowling Club and an Oddfellov/. He leaves a widow and one daughter, also an aged mother and father, Mr and Mrs James Taylor, of Napier, to mourn their loss.