PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reported from Auckland of Mr. L. S. Kissliiig, formerly manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland. A cable from Sydney says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sails for New Zealand on Thursday .next. His wife and family await- his return in Sydney. Mr. B. M. Molyneatix, Dominion Inspector for the Bank of New South Wales, was on a visit to New Plymouth yesterday, and leaves to-day for Wellington. Mr. G'rawshaw, manager of the Stratford branch of the Bank of New Zealand, retires from the bank service on the 3toh. inst. After a three months' holiday in tho Dominion he intends going to England to reside. Mr. G. E. Roper has been appointed manager of the New Plymouth Returned Soldiers' Club in succession to Mr. W. Ellis, and Mr. 0. West having resigned the position of secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, it has been decided to combine the office. At the annual meeting of the New Plymouth High School Old Boys' Association last night a. resolution was carried expressing appreciation of the work of Mr. N. Day as school representative on the executive, and wishing Mr. Day every success in his new appointment at Hamilton. Quite a gloom was cast over Patea yesterday morning when it became known that Father Duffy had passed | away (savs the Press). The deceased had been m indifferent health for a long time past, ami eventually it was found ] necessary Joi" him to enter the local j hospital, where he underwent a severe operation, from which he never rallied. Mrs. Scott, wife of Mr. E. T. Scott, a well-known settler of Tarurutangi, died in England on October 3, and the news was conveyed to her young family in New Plymouth by a ' letter from England. With her husband, Mrs. Scott ieft for England in July on a holiday. She was a daughter of Mr. G. Turner, of Inglewood, and was 39 years of age.

Archdeacon Mac Murray, of Auckland, arrived in New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday morning. He will preach at both services at St. Mary's to-morrow on the occasion of the anniversary of the church, and on Monday night he will meet the business men of New Plymouth in connection witli the establishment of a Bishopric in Taranaki. On Tuesday lie visits Inglewood, and on Wednesday morning he returns to Auckland.

The death occurred in India, recently from enteric fever of Lieutenant Alister Sulherland, a former pupil of the New Plymouth High School, and at las,', right's meeting of the Old Boys' Association a resolution of condolence with the parents of deceased was carried. Lieutenant Sutherland, who was at the school during 1914-IG, was a member of the football first fifteen, and the cricket team, won the boxing championship in the heavyweights, and was one of the best rifle shots in the school. He passed the Duntroon Military College entrance scholarship examination, and after a term at the College joined the New Zealand Staff Corps. He was Area officer at Hamilton for a time, and then proceeded to India. The death occurred at Jvohi, Waverley, on Thursday morning last of Mr. Win. Watkina, an old and respected settler of the district, at the advanced age of 015 years. He was Wn in Wales in the year '1824. At the age of 15 he left England and went to Australia, where he worked until the year 1851, when he crossed to New Zealand, and spent some years as foreman on a sheep station at Napier, finally leaving that district and taking up land in the Waverley district, where he lived for 4'(i years Ho leaves a family of three sons and six daughters, viz., Messrs. \\\ fT. Watkina (Waverley), E. A. Watkins (Napier), and S. M. Watkins (Kolii), Mrs. Armstrong (Kohi), Mrs. Loaan (Feilding), Mrs. Burkctt (Hamilton), Mrs. Northeote (Opunake), Mrs. 15. Treinnin (Auron), and Mrs. Old (Wangaimi),