PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram reports that Professor James Wilson has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University in succession to Professor Anderson Stuart.

A cable from Adelaide reports the death of the Hon. A. H. Peake, the Premier of South Australia. Mr. Peake, ivho was 01 years of age, was born in London, and left England for Australia with his parents in 18U2. He entered Parliament in 1897, and became Premier in 1912.

An old and highly respected resident of Hawera passed to her rest on Monday, in the person of Mrs. Michael Roche. Her deatli was tragically sudden, for she appeared in her usual state of good health. It therefdre naturally came as a. very great shock to very many friends in and around Ilawera. Mr.s Roche was a woman much beloved by many, to whom her bright and cheerful nature had made her warmly attached. She leaves a husband and large family, and with them in their time of sorrow sincere sympathy will be fstVStar. ' *

Referenco has recently been made to the visit, a year ago, to New Zealand of a son of Arnold, of Rugby. That was lus son Thomas (not the more famous Matthew), who came to Otago in 184S in the John Wycliff with Captain Cargill the first of the famous Otago ships. °He' passed on to Nelson and was a teacher there for some time. He subsequently went to Hobart where lie was appointed Chief Inspector of Schools. There he married the daughter of Governor Sorrel, and there their first child—the future authoress, Mrs. Humphrey Wardwas born.

Still another link with old Wanganui Ms been broken by the death of Mr William Young, who passed away on Ihursday, at the good old age of 80 years (says the Chronicle). The de. ceased had been a settler in the district for over half a century, for some twenty years of which he was manager of the 'Wanganui Loan and Finance Company. He also owned the wellknown Fernilea property near Fordell which he farmed f or nbou t 25 years'. , ,ate 3li". doling was one of the beat Known figure in local financial and farming circles, and was a man of strict integrity. .

Thomas W. Lawson, whose arrest in connection with a silver stock swindle is reported from New York, is one of .1° picturpsque figures in America to-day. He was the coiner of the term frenzied finance," and has eonf'hutcd largely to the American publics knowledge of the methods of financiers Himself ,an exceptionally able operator on the Stock Exchange,' a successful promoter of trusts, combines and corners, ami a many-times millionaire be electrified his business associates by contributing to Magazine" m 1912-13 a series of striking articles mercilessly exposing the system of hirii finance as adopted by the money-kings of the nation. In especial he told the whole story of the Amalgamated Copper deal which rumed thousands of American investors, mid put forward a series ot proposals for translation into legislation with the object of "abolishing the purely speculative side of Stock Exchange transactions. He made many powerful enemies, and his reputation has been continuously assailed ever since. is literary style fe amazingly vigorous and vivid, and his articles and'books have exerted a wide influence. American opinion is divided as to whether he should be condemned as a traitor to his confreres or exalted as a defender of the peop.e. Hi.s indictment on a criminal charge w, 1 excite wide interest throughout the United States.