PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Berlin cablegram reports the death Of HumpereHnck, the composer. Sir John Badeley lias been ©looted Lord Mayor of Loudon for the coming year.

Dr. Leaths,m leaves by this morning's train for Christchurch, and will be absent for a few days. Mr. Justice Herdman was welcomed by the Auckland Bar yesterday on taking up his duties at the Supreme Court.' The Wanganui Chronicle says that Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., had the misfortune to diallocate h» shoulder during the last Week-end.

The death of atill another—the fifth —of the newspaper men who attended the Press Conference in August, IMO, is announced —that of Mr. R. 8. Ward Jackson, editor of the Rand Daily Mail. A London cablegram reports the death, at 76 years of age, of Mr. T. H. Balfour Browne, K.C., who was reputed to have earned £40,000 per annum at the Parliamentary bar.

Lieutenant T. Herd, conductor of the Wellington Artillery Band, will adjudicate at the Thames Band Contest next week. Eleven bands will take part, and for the various solo contests 190 entries have been received.

News has been received by cable of the death of Mr. T. K. Dell, who was well known in Wellington, and was on a health trip to his parents in Brisbcwie. L>eceaaed was widely known in rifleshooting circles.

Mr. Newton King, who has been an inmate of a private hospital in New Plymouth for some weeks past, continues to make ‘splendid progress towards recovery, and hopes to return home today.

It is expected that next year the Hon. Sir Francis Bell will leave on a trip to England—a trip the acting-Prime Minister has promised himself for some time —and it is understood that the present intention is that in his absence the Hon. Sir Wijliam Fraser shall be Leader of the Legislative Council. Mr. Charles Harrington Broad, first assistant master, has been appointed principal of Nelson College in succession to Mr. H. L. Fowler, who has resigned on superannuation. Mr. Broad is an old boy of the college and has been a master for 24 years. The appointment will be popular among old boys through New Zealand.

The Presbyterian parish of Westmere, Wanganui, is extending a unanimous call to the Rev. William M’Neur, of Whakatane, Bay of Plenty. It is an interesting fact that all the five sons of the M’Neur family are Presbyterian ministers, the oldest being Rev. George M’Neur, pioneer missionary of the Zealand Presbyterian Church in the Canton Villages Mission. The death has occurred at Christchurch ,of Mr. W. Fttirclough Dickey, eldest son of the late Mr. R. J. Dickey, Auckland. Mr. Dickey was for fortythree years in the Government employ prior to his resignation in 1915, due to ill-health. He had been practically an invalid since. He held the position of Collector of Customs both of Wanganui and Napier. A Christchurch telegram announces the death of Mr. Thomas C. Norrb, dor over a quarter of a century secretary of the North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. His three surviving sons are Mr. E. T. Norria, Registrar of the New Zealand University] Wellington; Mr. J. B. Norris, secretary of the New Zealand Trotting Association; and Rev. A. H. Norrie, vicar ol Temuka and Winchester.

The deain occurred at Wakapuaka of Mr. Walter Frost, an old and esteemed rasident, at the age of 79 years. He came out to New Zealand from Engiaac with hie parents in the ship Mariner, arriving in 1544). He took part in tb< gold rushes at Wakamarina and Wanga peka, and when quite a young man he helped to cut the track to the Dun Mountain, being familiar with the ground when the Maungatapu murder took place, and being amongst the starch party for the bodies of the murdered men. Mr. Frost married the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thomaa Dodson His wife survives him and he leavoa aix daughters and five sons.

An old identity of Wellington, and one of the city’s most public spirited and hard-working residents, passed away on Tuesday evening, in the person of Mr. John Smith, at the ago of 81 years. Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, he came out to New Zealand with his parents in 1843. Mr. Smith was elected a member of the Wellington City Council as far back as 1885, and for many years he sat as an energetic and able member of that body. For one period he filled with dignity and business-like capacity the position of aeting-Mayor, during the absence of the then Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilfond). In 1912 Mr. Srtith completed 25 years* service as member of the City Council, and the occasion was marked by a notable gathering of citizens.

In proposing the re-election of the Hon. O. Samuel to the office of Chairman of Committees of t«he Legislative Council, the Attorney-Genera I (Sir Francis Bell) spoke in terms of the highest praise concerning the manner in which Mr. Samuel had in the past discharged his duties as chairman. Sir Francis Bell remarked that he would be glad to see the Standing Orders amended so that the appointment of chairman, instead of being sessional, should be for the term of a Parliament. During the recess Mr. Samuel >ad been engaged on the heavy task of revising the Standing Orders, and the Council was deeply indebted to him for the work he had done. The Hon. C. A. Hardy seconded the • nomination, and Mr. Samuel was unanimously re-elected. The ' Speaker tendered his congratulations. The death of Mr. Thomas Bayly Pen. warden, of Oakura, occurred yesterday morning at the age of 75. 'The late Mr. Pen warden was a very old and respected pioneer of the Taranaki province. A native of Clawton Pariah, Devonshire, he came out to New Zealand with his parents in the ship Joseph Fletcher in 1856. He served through the latter part of the Maori wars in No. £ Company, Taranaki Bushrangers. At the condusion of hostilities he received a military grant of land in the Tikorangi district. After residing in various parts of Taranaki the late Mr. Penwarden finally settled in the Oakura township, where he had lived for a number of years and till the time of his sudden death. Mr. Penwarden Imivm a family of three, Messrs. Eric and TFArry and Mrs. F. Binnie, bring predeceased by his wife some years ago.