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Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. Truby King, accompanied by Mrs. King and daughter, arrived back at Wellington from England via Sydney by the Moeraki on Sunday. Viscount Grey, who has been acting Ambassador of Great Britain at Washington, has sailed for England by the Adriatic.

The Rev. E. L. Harvie, vicar of Epsom, is on a visit to.Taranaki, and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Dean, Durham Road, Inglewood

Mr. H. E. Mostyn, deputy-superin-tendent of housing for the Government was in New Plymouth yesterday, and in company with Mr. Ji C. Yorke, of the local office of the Labor Department, inspected the site at Moturoa, where it is proposed to erect workers' homes. Lieut.-Colonel G. Home, 0.8. E., who lias been absent with the Expeditionary Force since the departure of the Main Body, returned to New Zealand by the Rimutaka which reached Wellington on Sunday. Dr. Home is accompanied by Mrs Home and Miss Jessie Home, and the party is expected to reach Sew Plymouth to-night.

Mr. James Bull, the pioneer and sponsor of the township of Hulls, is, according to a visitor from that locality, still hale, and is living in the English village where he was born nearly ninety years ago. He lias just presented u site to the residents of Bulls for the purpose of being used as a bowling green. It is expected to be opened next season.

A United Service cable from London states that Dr. G. E. Morrison, political adviser to tie President of the Chinese Republic since 1912, is seriously ill, and is undergoing a third operation. Dr. Morrison, who is a distinguished journalist, was sent to China by the London Times, and he was their notable correspondent there from 1895 to 1912, when •he received the political appointment which he now holds. Dr. Morrison is an Australin, having been born at Geelong, Victoria, in 1882. Senior-Sergt. H. McCrorie, of Westport, is to be transferred from Westport to New Plymouth to'-fill the vacancy in the New Plymouth police office occasioned by the retirement on account of ill-health of Sergeant Treli y. This appointment will somewhat relieve the pressure on the New Plymouth force and especially on Sub-Inspector Hutton, who, for the past 13 months has practically been maintaining his own work and that of the local station as well, and there have also been frequent occasions when the staff of constables has been very much below strength. The Rev. A. Campbell Sievewright, who has resigned the pastorate of the New Plymouth Baptist Church, in order to take up teaching work among the Maoris, preached farewell sermons on Sunday. At the conclusion of the evening service suitable reference was made by the officials to the regret they felt at saying "good-bye" to their minister, and a small presentation was made to mark the esteem in which Mr. Sievewright has been held by the members of the congregation. The recipient suitably acknowledged the gift and the f;ood wishes expressed. Mr. Sievewright, who has accepted an appointment in the Kawhia district, leaves New Plymouth pn Friday.

,The death occurred at Cambridge early on Wednesday morning of Mr. William Qaultrough, one of the oldest and most respected residents of the Waikato. The late Mr. Qualtrough was 79 years of age. He arrived in New Zealand with his parents when a boy, and settled with them at the Tamaki, near Auckland. In the early 'sixties, just after the Maori War, lie went to reside at Kihikihi, and afterwards took up a farm at Orakau, near the confiscated line, where he remained for many years. About 18 years ago lie purchased part of the homestead of the Fencourt Estate, near Cambridge, a portion of which he owned at the time of his deatlu