PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. M. Fraser, a member of the Board of Health, leaves for Wellington to-morrow to attend a meeting of tbe board. Captain West, marine superintendent in New Zealand for the C. and D. Lin;*, is visiting New Plymouth. Mr. J. S. Connett (chairman of the Taranaki County Council) has been re-elected to the executive of the Counties’ Association. Mr. F. T. Bellringer, general manager nl the Borough of New Plymouth, left Iqi Wellington yesterday to attend the Municipal Conference. Mr. William White, who was 106 on June 18 last, died in Wellington yesterday. He was a native of Walworth, near Camberwell, England, and came to New Zealand nearly 70 years ago. A London cable reports the death oi Sir William Garforth, inventor of a' method of extinguishnig coal dust and gaseous explosions in mines, as well as lifesaving apparatus. A Christchurch telegram reports the death of Mrs. Eileen Sherlock, aged 83 She arrived in New Zealand by the barqyt Gertrude in 1840. Hre first husband was Edward Jerningham Wakefield, and hoi second the late Charles Sherlock, a wellknown Canterbury journalist. The late Mr. Thos.Bayly Pen warden, oi Oakura. who died last Thursday, is survived by his wife. The statement it Friday’s issue that Mrs. Penwarden haii predeceased her husband was therefore incorrect.

A very old resident of Auckland, Mr=i. Rachel Parker, wklow of the late Mr, "William Parker, died on Wednesday at the age of 82. Mr. and Mrs. Parke) arrived, in New Zealand 63 years ago ii the sailing ship Solent. Mr. F. D. Tbomson, private secretarv to the Prime Minister, who returned with Mr. Massey, has visited England five times in hrs official capacity, the first occasion being in 1902, with Mr Sedden.

Mr. Alfred Hill, the composer, has married Miss Mirri Solomon, Profeseoi of Harmony at the State Conservatorium at Sydney (says a cable* message).

Mr. O. Hawken, M.P. for Egmont, and Mr. E. Dixon, M.P. for Patea, retirr»r<l to Wellington by the mail train yesterday moming. Mr. R. Masters, M.P. fot Stratford, who also spent the week-end in Taranaki, motored hack to Welling ton.

The death took plai'e at Palmerstofi North on Wednesday of Mrs. Jewuc Petrie at the age of 96 years. She the relict of the late Colonel potrio, of the 7th Oudh Regiment in India, wlic was killed in the Indian Mutiny in 15.“7 She was probably one of the tas-t of th? surviving Imperial pensioners in conaec tion with the Mutiny. Mr. George P. Mountain, one of the oldest settlers of the Bay of Islands, has died at the age of 84. He was born in Australia, and came to New Zealand 56 years ago, settling in Purcrua as a storekeeper and gumhuyqr, where he started a fish cannery, still in successful operation. He married Miss H. Lethbridge, daughter of the first white woman born in New Zealand.

Mr. Lv O. Hooker has received from the Director of the Royal College ol Music, London, the first term’s report of the progress made by hie daughter, Miss Maida Hooker, who recently went Home to take up the Royal Academy Scholarship. The report shows that good progress U being made in both piano and singing and concludes with the remark: “You will find results, commensurate to excellent work.”

Many people will regret to hear of the death of Mrs. Innes Jonee. wife of Archdeacon Innes Jones, which took place on Friday afternoon. It is not so long ago since Archdeacon Innes Jones removed to Roeeneath from Feeding, where he had been vicar for 28 years, account of his wife’s health, and a’.ptxently she had benefited by the change. On Thursday evenings however, site was seized with a stroke, and passed away the following day. Miss Buckman, of Wellington, is in teceipt of information from her sister, Miss Rosina Buckman, the prima donna, that she and her husband (Mr. Maurice d’Oiseley, tenor) will be visiting New Zealand next winter. As there does not seem to be any prospect of a grand opera company yet. Miss Buckman’s relatives here assume that the visitors are to tour in concert. As an operatic soprano, Miss Buckman is at the head of her profession in England, and all recent arrivals from Home say that she is singing peerlessly. The'latest information is that she hae accepted an engagement to sing at La Scaia, in Milan, where she is to appear in the French opera “Arianne et Barbe Bleue” at its first performance in Italy.