PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

in i- Mr. Massey celebrated his fixt ill I fomtii birthday yc.siprdu v. J lis utyji 0. is healing well, and lie i»* able to tran it act some public business. >f A cable from London says Sir Williaj d .Sutherland (Coalition-Liberal;, former! private secretary to Air. uoyd Ueor» li ias been re-elected to Parliament it n Argylshire, ine Prince of Wales, now en rout ® to Aew /calami, is iu his tWeuty-sixt year. He was born on June 2:2 nd, 18Danfi his _t\venty-si\th birthday will b celebiated whilst he is in Australia ' bandsman V. Rush, of New Plymouth was entertained by hit's colleagues in th Citizens' Band last night aim presente. 1 vvitii a fountain pen. Mr. Hush is « L Y ing to England, but expects 'to returi i to New Plyiaoutli at toe end of tii s year. ' Advice has been received by cable tha _ Mr. 0. J'. Ilowarth, organising teacher 6 Opunake district, was successful in pass 3 "'S 111 "Mental and Moral Philosophy' , at the degree examinations in Novembe ; last. Mr. l-lowarth w now entitled t. Ins teacher's ",B" certificate. • A Hanson > principal light-kecpei of faiaroa Head, is being retired oi > after a service of som< ; 4o years. Mr. Hansen is the oldest o ; the light-keeping staff of New Zealand and it is lus intention to settle in Wei s hnif to \i T i' e ! ifiilt " kee P er Cape Camp j Ml Mr. J. Ansin, is also to rcti« snortly on superannuation. . At a special meeting of the Inglewood Borough Council held on Wednesday t< consider applications for the position ol elecirieal engineer, Mr. H. Winter, 0 1 ijj ttletoii, was appointed from nineteen applications. Mr. Winter will entei upon his duties almost immediately, and , thereby release Mr. Stewart from re- , sponsihihties. ! At the Waverley S. M. Court on Wed- . uesday, Police-Sergeant Halke, ' who. is . leaving for Auckland, was congratulated oil ins promotion by the -Magistrate (Mr. Vvyvern and memoers oi tut oar, and wislied every success in his ■ new sphere, inspector Hendry said the ' promotion was long oveiiue, and that sergeant Halke was a credit to the force. Brigadier-General T. Griffiths, formerly commandant at the headquarters of the Australian Imperial forces, has been appointed administrator or t/ie Pacific possessions controlled by the Commonwealth in succession to lsrigntW-Uencral G. J. Johnston, who has resigned. The salary attaching to the position is -a year, inclusive of allowances. Bri-gadier-General Griffiths will leave Sydney on April 3 for Kabaul. The late Mr. T. G. Dunlop, who was accidentally killed in the recent explosion at the Kauroa quarry at Raglan, was born in 1865, at Onehunga, whence he went to Thames with his lather and followed the occupation of a miner. He Was for 15 years underground manager of the Golden Cross Mine, Waitekauri, and for various periods occupied a similar position in the • axon and May Queen and other Thames mnes. The death occurred in Tasmania recently irom heart disease, of the i\ev \y. Sharp, for many years a higily respected resident of Timaru and _ father to Dr. Stanlev Sharp, 0 f Otaki. The Rev. Mr. Sharp was a Congregational minister, and left timaru to become pastor of the .Memorial Congregational* Church, Ilobart, where he remained for about thirty yeans. Kecently he retired from ministerial The death took pjaee at Cliristchurch on Tuesday <>f the, He v. J. L. Mortimer, alter seve.ral«Bionths' illness. «Th e rtc ,_ ceased wa, horn j n Cliristchurch, ana educated m K„gi a » d) at if o33all ' gchoo J and afterwards at Oxford, where he graduated in 1902. He held curacies in W?l- an /T at i l Vallse,ul > Sie et and Upton Paik (London), and returned to Chriistchurch Jn 1911 as assistant curate to the Rev. Canon Burton, of St. Michael's. Afterwards he was the first vicar of St. Stephen s Shirley, and in 1915 ] le was sS hi T;; of st - Pctor'sofSt vtr , ler waa the ? rst vicar of St. Mattnew's, St. Albans.* Commenting upon th? death of Dr. Maclaurin, the Boston Globe states:mat the sudden and untimely death of the leader of scientific education in America is a tragedy, the whole comrs , a , PP [ ec,ftte3 ' Lfss than a week ago Dr. Maclaurin was apparently at the beginning of what promised to be the most brilliant chapter of his career for it,was then that he announced the comP e ion of the fund which is to enable SSv T to . fUim itS functio,ls fnnL hj" 1 MIS of seat a s president of this school Wli Wfls pv<m theil the leading institution of its kind Harmony had not preceded him He fnTw i ,'!• faCt l°" 3 pioneered m the building of a white city of learning across the Charles, and moved stu dents and equipment thither. And all the t,me hat he was building in stone stitution f 0 hR 7 S als ° I, ' artin " his institution forward to now achievements in the realm of learning. The chair Dr Maclaurin has left vacant is very TaS' ®°™ .' n Edinburgh, educated in 2J*v Zealand, a, graduate of Cambridge, hack to >, ew Zealand as a dean of a college around half the world to become a S-' fessor at Columbia, and on top of that a ra% S eaf"h f what nn fl ' oUght to Snm ,1 " C ° Uld JlaVo brought Some college presidents have been e ?eat collectors of gifts and of ondowmcnL some have been great sdiolars. But ° 1-1 m has a tcc °rd which 1, <, 6 \ u Maclaur !" behind either as a builder or as a leader in the intellectual progress of mankind."