PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. Newton King returned from Wellington on Saturday night.

Mr. A. E. dull, of Waipawa, who has been on a visit to Taranaki, leaves New Plymouth this morning on his return home. A L-ondon cable announces the death of Dr. Sydney Austin Dobson, the wellknown poet and author, who was corn in January, 1840, and contributed articles to many of the moye important magazines and reviews. Mr. Arthur Stubbs, Registrar of the Auckland Supreme Court, and sheriff of Auckland, will retire on superannuation in December next. Mr. Stubbs has spent nearly forty years in the Justice Department, which he joined in Napier in 1882. The Federal Ministry has appointed Mr. Bruce, a member of the House of Representatives, who is now in London, to accompany Mr. Shepherd (act-ing-High Commissioner) to tlw meeting of the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva.

Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Welsh, of Hawera, who have been away from Hawera in the Old Country for about eighteen months, and who returned by the Athenic to Wellington at the beginning of the week, returned to Hawera on Friday. They had a most interesting time at Home, and are both looking very well indeed, says the Star.

A Dunedin telegram states that Captain Beaumont, Government superintendent of marine for sixteen years, retires on superannuation in November. He was in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company for 22 years, commanding the old Maori, Ovalau, trawler Maori, Southern Cross, and Waihora, and he never had an accident.

At the annual meeting of the Tarata Dairy Company on Saturday, the following resolution was passed: That an expression of sympathy be sent the relatives of the late Mr. W. E. Percival, whose death is a great loss to the dairying industry of Taranaki; a man of sterling quality and a good friend to the company, always ready with sound advice, and very thorough in everything he took in hand.

Writes our Hurford Road correspondent: The sudden death of Mr. W. F. Riordan cast quite a gloom over the Hurford district, where he was only the previous Monday looking hale and hearty, with a joke for all he met. Only recently Mr. Riordan gave up farming on the Hurford Road and retired to New Plymouth. He took an active part in all public affairs pertaining to the Hurford Road district, and he was a great favorite with all who knew him. Mrs. Riordan and family have the deepest sympathy of a large circle of friends in their bereavement.

Mrs. Rowse, widow of the late Rev. W. Rowse, who attained her eighty-fifth year on August 7, was last, week entertained in the Town Hall, Petone, by tfie W.C.T.U., of which she was at one time Dominion president, and is still president of the Petone branch. The gathering was a very influential one, a number of visitors going out from Wellington. The Mayor of Petone (Mr. McEwen) presided, and on behalf of the members of the W.C.T.U. presented the guest with a large birthday cake and bouquet of flowers. Congratulatory addresses were made by a number of speakers. An excellent musical programme was given, the principal soloist being Miss E. Rowse. At the close of the function Mrs. Rowse expressed her thanks and appreciation for all the nice things said that afternoon. A Press message from Hastings states that news was received by cable on Saturday night by Mr. Clarkson of the death at Sydney of his brother, Mr. J. B. Clarkson, after a prolonged and painful illness. Deceased was born at Christchurch in 1870, and in his earlier years was well known in cycle racing circles. He introduced pneumatic tyres, and was'the first in New Zealand to race a bicycle ro fitted. He later went north and founded a wholesale cycle and motor business under the name of J. B. Clarkson, Ltd., and by ability and energy the business developed into one of the chief importing concerns. His striking personality became yell known in London and New York. Subsequently he 'became colonial director of the De Lion Boulton Company, and made his headquarters in Sydney. He leaves a wife and son, Captain Leonard Bowes Clarkson, R.A.F.