PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from London says Lady Randolph Churchill left £39,097. Mr. Jacob Marx was yesterday reelected chairman of directors of the Mangatoki Dairy Company. Mr. Newton King returned to New Plymouth by the mail train last night. It will be some little time before Mr. King will be able to attend to business. Mr. Jas. McLeod, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, who was present at the football test match at Dunedin in Saturday, returned to New Plymouth by the mail train last night.

Mr. Frederick J. McKenna, of Hawera, was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by His Honor Mr. Justice Salmond at New Plymouth yesterday.. A Washington message says it is announced that Senator Lodge will be a member of the American Commission at the Disarmament Conference.

Mr. P. J. Townley, general manager for New Zealand of the Guardian Insurance Company, is visiting Taranaki. Mr. B. H. Chaney, who represented the North Taranaki Hunt at- the annual conference of hunt clubs at Christchurch last week, has returned to New Plymouth. A Cairo message reports that an aeroplane conveying General Newman, Chief of the General Staff in Egypt, crashed at Heliopolis. The pilot was killed and General Newman’s recovery is doubtful.

Misses Catherine Stephenson (Patea), Muriel L. Burwell (Dunedin), and May C. Roberts (Tauranga) were yesterday approved of by the Taranaki Hospital Board for placing on the list of probationers at the New Plymouth Hospital. Mr. K. B. Long, the foreign editor of the London Times, who recently toured New Zealand, has been appointed editor of the Cape Times, in succession to the late Sir Maitland Bark.

Dr. George Lapraik (Auckland), who is suffering from a nervous breakdown, and who is at present an inmate of the Wellington Hospital, is stated to be showing an improvement. Dr. Lapraik (who had several years of strenuous war work in France) has been compelled to resign his position on the Medichl Board. Years ago Dr. Lapraik was in practise on the Waimate Plains.

The resignations of the following nurses were accepted with regret at yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board: Sister O. Peers (from August 31); Probationer-Nurse D. M Wilton (-from August 31), and ProbationerNurse M. F. Chapman (from August 22). On the recommendation of the medical lrene Sal way was appointed a sister (vice Sister Paget).

No definite advice as to the visit of Lord Northcliffe to ?New Zealand has yet been received by Sir Francis Bell (act-ing-Prime Minister). He proposes, however, to communicate with Lord Northclifl’e when the Makura reaches Suva to ascertain his plans, and whether he intends to spend any time in the Dominion, so that the Government may place at his disposal facilities for seeing the country. The death occurred in Auckland on Monday of Mr. Henry Theodore Castaing, a well-known resident of Tauranga. He took a prominent part in local public affairs, and for many years occupied a seat on the Tauranga Borough Council, and was a sitting member at the time of his death. He had also been a member of the Tauranga Hospital Board. He had resided all his life in Tauranga. He is survived by a widow and six. children, the eldest being IS years of age.

A Wellington telegram reports the death o.f the Hon. J. G. W. Aitken, aged 72. Mr. Aitken was bofrn in Scotland, and engaged in business in Glasgow and London, coming to New Zealand in 1882. With Mr. George Wilson he started business as a general merchant in Wellington. Mr. Aitken was. Mayor of Wellington from 1889 to .1905 and sat for a Wellington City seat in the 1902 and 1905 Parliaments. Besides his public work on local bodies and in Parliament Mr. Aitken was a great toiler for all religious and philanthropic agencies, especially those in connection with the Presbyterian Church, of which he was chosen Moderator a few years ago—a most unusual honor for a layman. Mr. Aitken never spared his time or money in assisting good objects and his loss will- be severely felt. Mr. Aitken was a bachelor.

The death occurred at New Plymouth yesterday of Mr. William Mamby Doughty, a well-known resident, in his 74th year. The late Mr. Doughty, who was born in Lincolnshire, England, had been in New Zealand for forty years, the greater part of which was spent in Taranaki. He lived in New Plymouth, and also in Stratford for many years being formerly in business as a bootmaker. At Stratford he was prominently connected with the Caledonian Society in its earlier days, having been an athlete of some ability. Mr. Doughty is survived by four daughters and three sons: Mesdames W. Hughes (Nelson), S. Ward (Stratford), H. Ashton (Stratford), and R. Ki veil (Stratford), and Messrs.'Fred (New Plymouth), William (Wanganui), and Joe (Sydney). The youngest son, the late Lt. Ralph Doughty, M.M., was killed in action in 1917.