PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London .cablegram reports the death of Sir Charles Heurv, M.P. A cable from Sydney says ItearAdrairal Sir Haworth Booth, the Commonwealth Naval Adviser, in London, has retired. The Washington correspondent of the ;; ew . iork World states that it is authoritatively asserted that President v\ uson will reassume full duties shortly. X resident Wilson celebrated ]iis sixtythird birthday on December 28th. Dr. W. Carmalt Jones, of London, has accepted the Chair of Systematic Medicine at the Otago University. Mr. Duncan McQueen, a very old resident of Ashburton, died suddenly at the residence of his niece, .Mrs. M. Mackintosh, Ashburton, from-heart trouble. It is stated that a movement is afoot to suitably recognise the services renderctl by, Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby during tiie, lengthy period he represented the \\ airarapa electorate in Parliament. Mr. D. C. Bates, New Zealand Government Meteorologist, who attended t'lie international Meteorological Congress at Paris as the Dominion's representative, has arrived, in Sydnev by the Port irie - Accompanied b.v Mrs Bates be is expected to return to Wellington short-

Mr. John Mac Gibbon, manager of the Ashburton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed an inspector, and will leave Ashburton in a day pr so. Mr. James Bevin, of Ureymouth, is nis successor. Police Sergeant Trehey, of New Plymouth who has been on sick leave ever since the epidemic of last 'vear, was medically examined recently and as a rej suit has been declared unfit for service. He will therefore retire from the force as from December 31st. Mr. L. A. Macdonald, of Hawera, died o pneumonia on _ Saturday afternoon, tie was (states the Star) for some time a teacher under the Wanganui Educa':°l ®? ar ; 1 ' and la -ter tool: up farming with his brother, in the Haleombe district. For the past three or four years lie has been employed in the legal 6ffices of Messrs ODea, Haselden, and Bavlev, of Hawera. The late Mr. Macdonaid was of a quiet retiring disposition, liked 3 ever) one with whom he came in contact, but under a quiet exterior was ver? real ability. For over twentv vear« he was a member of the British' Aatronoraical Association.

A Waverley correspondent writes:— r!' A < Hemingway lias been transferred to the Eltham branch of the Bank of Australasia. He has done a O ood deal as secretary of the lotal school committee, and to a' great extent has been instrumental in obtaining the handsome war memorial to fallen expupils of the school, which is shortlv to be erected in the school grounds. Mrs Hemingway will also be a decided loss to the district, having never spared herself in patriotic work and organising the church choir. The best wikhes of W?7erley residents go with them in their new sphere.

On e of six bishops who were conciliated at St. Paul's Cathedral, London on October 18, was the Ven. Frank Melville Innes Jones, Archdeacon of Yoruba Country, Africa, who was appointed mahop of Bishop Innes Jones lias seen 27 years' missionary service in Western Equatorial Africa. ' His father was an Anglican clergyman at Nelson, and the new Bishop, who was educated at "nelson College, gained his BA degree in New Zealand. The Archbishop of Canterbury has just conferred upon lum the degree of D.D., in recognition or his long term of service in foreign parts Dr. Innes Jones is a brother of JJr. Herbert Innes Jones, of Te Awamutu.

Captain H. E. Greenstreet, ex-coramo-(lore of the New Zealand Shipping Company s fleet, arrived at Auckland from England by the Ruahine last week Captain Green street retired from the service in 1917. He is accompanied t>v Miss M. Greenstreet, who is just recovering from a serious illness. Captain Greenstreet is believed to have made more voyages round the world than snv other living man. While in the service Captain Greenstreet made 90 complete voyages round the world, or, ineluding two through the Panama CiUal 02 between England and the Antipodes. His present trip, when completed, will make the 93rd. He has rounded the Cape of Good Hope 05 times, and Cnpe Horn 75 times, has passed through the Straits of Magellan 14 times, and crossed the Equator 19-2 times. He has travelled, approximately, 2,500,000 miles at sea, haS never had a serious mishap and has never been off duty for a single day at sea owing to illness. ° General regret will (states the Star) be felt at the death, after a long illness, of Mr. R. L. Hutchens, a very old and lespectcil resident of Hawera. Mr Hutchens years ago, when he first went to Hawera, was in business in High Street. Retiring from that some twelve years since, lie took up the profession of ■teacher of music, which he continued until last year, when he underwent a serious operation in Svdney. He returned to New Zealand, but graduallv became weaker, and on Sunday passed quietly away., Mr. Hutchens \vas for many years prominent in the musical world of Hawera. He was for many years choirmaster at the Hawera Methodist Church and conductor of the Male Choir, and foremost in any work for the good of Hawera in wliich his musical ability could ba of use. He was also en energetic worker and official in the Methodist Church. Mrs Hutchens predeceased him some years. He leaves two sons-Mr. Will Hutchens (Hawera), and Mr. Prank (of Svdney) —both of whom have done well'in the musical profession, and one daughter Miss Jeannie Hutchens, of Hawera.