PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Eneas Gallagher, who has been a resident of Hawera for many years, left yesterday morning for the Waikato, where he has purchased a farm. A quiet wedding was solemnised at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thrush, Jnaha, on May 11), when Mabel a. Willis, youngest daughter of Mr. R. Willis, of Kapuni, was married to Jamea C. Edmonds, of Whangamomona. Mr. J. E. Green, who has been superintendent of the Telegraph Department at Wanganui, has received advice of his promotion to the position of assistant-superintendent at Auckland. The death occurred on Sunday afternoon, after a short illness, of Mr. T. A. Taylor, Hurford Road. The deceased gentleman, who formerly lived in ■VVaverley, leaves a widow and grown-up family. Mr. and Mrs. Blackmail, and Mr. and Mrs. Penford, of Okaiawa, arc leaving for England in July, reports the Star's correspondent. Last week the former ivere entertained at a social evening by the parishioners of St- Aidan's. Mr. Blackman was presented with a travelling rug, and Mrs. Blackman with fi brooch, as a mark of the esteem in Which they were held.

In Punch of March 3rd last, under the heading of "Our Booking Office," appears the following appreciative reference to the late Noel Ross. The writer says: "'Of the late Mr. Noel Ross, who, to the infinite loss of Brittsli journalism, died at the early age of twenty-seven, Mr. Punch cannot trust himself to speak with the cold detachment of the critic. Fie saw life with the clear eye of happy youth, and set it down with the easy pen of a ready writer. Coming from New Zealand, through the war, to England, his natural talents were at once recognised, and he won a position for himself on the staff of the Times. In the leisure moments spared from the services of the Old Lady of Printing Rouse Square, he would crnok a jest, now and then, with the Old Sage of Bouverie Street. Mr. Edwin Arnold now publishes a collection of li's -yriting' under the title, 'Noel rnd TTis Work,' and Mr. Punch cmiliwv, himself to commending the volume to his readers."