PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death of Mr. Andrew Black, the vocalist, is reported in a cable from Sydney. His Honor Sir .Joint MnitnomJ in visiting New Plymouth, where lie jh engaged in the sitting of the Supreme Court, which opened yesterday. The name of Mi« s Jmio May Murphy, of Marton, lias been added to the probationers' list at the New Plymouth hospital. Mr. P. 8. WhilcoiiilH:, Secretary of the Taranaki Education Hoard, was a passenger yesterday by the liimu, on a holiday trip to'the North. A Press Association message ntate:j that Lord Murray of Klilmnk, is dead, aged 50.' Lord Mur ray of Klilmnk entered Parliament in ']<)()(), and became Parliamentary .Secretary to the Treasury in 1910. He was ITrider-Secrctary of State for India in the previous year. The death took placo at Dunedin on Tuesday of Mrs. Annie llolford, widow ol the late Captain Holford, who was harbor-master at New Plymouth about thirty years ago. The late Mrs. Holford, who was 84, was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. .John Brooking, an early settler of New Plymouth. Captain R. Smith, of Auckland, acted a 8 coastal pilot on the West Cainargo during the vessel's journeys from Auckland to Wellington and Wellington to New Plymouth. Captain Smith left for the North by the Rimu yesterday afternoon. Captain L. Wcstdahl, who is in command of the West 1 Oamargo, served in the American Navy during the war, and all his officers were employed on steamers doing work under the United States Government. This is Captain Westdahl's first visit to New Zealand. Among the successful candidates at the recent examination for the Associated Board of the Koyal Academy, was Doris Grant Cowen, who (states the Star) passed in the Higher Division'. Whilst in Hawera Doris was the pupil of Miss Edith Elliott. At the meeting of the Eatea County Council on Monday (reports the Press) a vote of condolence was passed to. the engineer (Mr. J. C. McLachlen), whose wife had lost both her parents during the month. A well-known resident of Auckland, Mr. William Skeates, died in his 80th year on Sunday, after a few days' illness. Mr. Skeates, who was a watchmaker and jeweller in Auckland for many years, was also well-known in the Waikato and Taranaki districts. With his wife and seven sons ho arrived at Auckland from Bristol in January, 1882, by the ship Roman Empire. Mr. C. G. Graham, traffic manager at San Francisco for the General Steamship Corporation,- is dSvisitor to New Plymouth. Mr. Graham has come to the Dominion on the West Camargo, the second steamer of this line to visit New Zealand, and lie is making arrangements at various New Zealand alid Australain ports for future visits by vessels belonging to his company. \ A Press Association telegram from Christchurch states that Mr. Thos. Brown, -whose death at Sydney is reported by cable, was well-known in Christchurch business circles. For many years he was manager of the Brunner Coal Company and afterwards of the Westport Coal Company. Later he started a business known as Thomas Brown, Limited. He was in good health when he left a fortnight ago on his usual trip to Sydney. Details of the degrees and honors conferred by Edinburgh University at its annual graduation ceremony on July Bth, when Mr. Rudyard Kipling received the honorary degree pf Doctor of Laws, are of special interest in New Zealand. Dr. S. T. Champtaloup, D.Sc., M.8., Ch.B., received his M.D., and was highly commended for his thesis oh "A Study of the Influenza Epidemic in New Zealand, 1918, epidemiology, administration, and bacteriology, with a report of the pathology of 25 fatal cases." Dr. Champtaloup also received the degree of D.Sc. in the Department of Public Health for a thesis on "Tuberculosis in Children in New Zealand." At the same time Dr. T. F. Corkill, M.D., Ch.B., of Wellington, his M.D., with high commendation for a thesis entitled ''An analysis of cases of active eclampsia in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh. 18(10!919, and a review of treatment!" Two other New Zealanders to receive the degrco oi M.D. were Dr. Duncan Cook (thesis on "Clinical Heart Studies in Childhood and Youth)") and Dr. Claude E. Tudehope (thesis on "Reinfection in Syphillis"). Three candidates received the highest distinction of the gold medal for their theses, but the only two to attain the next distinction of "highly commended" were Dr. Champtaloup and Dr. Corkill- The names of Messrs, H. J. C. Durand and J. A. Gillison, of New Zealand, appear among those gaining this degree, 12 were granted it with dlstine. tion, and it is a noteworthy fact that five of these I'2 were women."