PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from Sydney announces the death of Mr. Thomas Ridley, chairman of directors of Messrs. Gordon and Goteh of Australasia,

A London cable says there has been another change regarding the position of Chief Justice owing to the refusal of Lord Sterndale, president of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division to accept a temporary appointment. Lord Reading has handed in his resignation and it is understood Sir Gordon Hewart (Attorney-General) will be Lord Chief Justice, Sir E. Pollock Attorney-Gen-eral and Mr. Leslie Scott Solicitor-Gen-eral.

A London cablegram reports the death of Lord Moulton, aged 77 years. Lord Moulton had a very brilliant career at Cambridge, where he headed the list in the Mathematical Tripos. He Jdieu turned to law and politics, sitting in the House as a Liberal in three Parliaments between 1885 and 1906, when appointed a judge in the Court of Appeal. During the- war he did excellent work as chairman of the committees bn chemicals and explosives and directorgeneral of explosive supplies in the Ministry of Munitions. «

A London correspondent writes under date January '2o:—Mrs. R. H. Davies (widow of the late Brig.-Gen. Davies, C. 8.) and her daughter, Miss Eileen Davies, are leaving for New Zealand by the Wiltshire, at the end of this mojith, and Miss Elsie Gray (Wellington) has booked by the same steamer. Following on her V.A.D. work at Mount Felix Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Miss Davies has trained as a masseuse, and she intends pursuing her profession in Wellington. En route to New Zealand Mrs. Davies will stop at Capetown to see her sister, Mrs. Potts, and her brother, Captain N. de la Cour Cornwall, R.N.xt, who went out to South Africa vear.