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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Lisle, organiser for the Reform Party, is visiting Taranaki in connection with the affairs of the Party.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie lias been appointed a director of the National Mortgage Company. Brigadier-General Meldrum is leaving rlunterville to take up his residence in the Ifawke's Bay district.

Mr. Daniel Ryan, Auckland manager of the Huddart Parker, Co., Ltd., is dead (reports a Press telegram). A cablegram from London says Admiral .Sir Lionel Halsey lias been appointed comptroller and treasurer to the Prince of Wales.

The Governor-General and Lady Jollicoe paid a visit of an hour's duration to Dinmevirke yesterday afternoon, and were accorded a hearty welcome. In tlie evening they arrived at Masterton, and leave there to-day for Wellington. —Press Association.

Mr. C. K G Tisdall, of Malay States, lias been appointed an organising seerotary of the New Zealand Board of Missions. Mr. Tisdall is to reside in Christohuroh, and will eomraence his duties on February 1, 1021.

Mr. A. A. Winslow. United States Consul-General in New Zealand, is to be transferred to Capetown aa ConsulGeneral to the South African Union (says a telegram from Auckland). Mr Winslow will be succeeded by Mr. David F. Wilher, who is at Genoa.

A private telegram received in Dunedin announces the death at London of Second-Lieutenant William Frederick Bell, who served in the Great War. He was one of the exhibitors at the Otago Art Society's gallery last year, and his sketches figure prominently in Ihe N.Z.K.F. publication, "Shell-shock." He was a student, at the Dunedin School of Art, and was considered one of the promising artists trained there. He secured a scholarship in London, and went Home to study.

A solemn Requiem Mass for. the late Father Duff was celebrated at the. Patea Catiholici Church on Tuesday morning, Dean Power officiating, assisted by a large number of visiting clergymen; Archbishop O'Shea being also present- The church was crowded to the doors with a large congregation, many of whom were visibly affected during the service. At the conclusion of the mass the cortege left the Church for the Patea cemetery, headed by a procession of twenty-three priests, and followed by the congregation and friends of the deceased, the funeral being the largest ever seen in the district, testifying to the warm place the deceased had occupied in the hearts of all. The service at the graveside was impressively conducted by Archbishop O'Shea.—Press.