PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs. R. Masters and O. Hawkcn, M.P.’s, returned to Wellington yesterday morning by the mail train.

Messrs. J. B. Murdock and A. Morton left by the mail train yesterday on n visit to the Main Trunk district.

It is officially stated that Princess Mary’s wedding will take place in Westminster Abbey on February 28. A Tokio eabl/ that Genera' Joffre has arrived in that city and was greeted with gay tri-colors. The streetf were thronged with crowds waving flags and cheering.

Captain West, marine superintendent for the C. and D. Line, is at present in New Plymouth, having arrived by the Port Albany.

The death of another old resident of Wanganui is reported, in the person of Mrs. Siddle, who passed away on Sunday at the age of« 70 years.

Mrs. Mercy Williams, who died at Onehunga last week at the age of 86, was an old colonist of New Zealand, having arrived in the ship Maori on December 24, 1864. She had lived at Onehunga ever since. Mrs. Williams is survived by three sons, two daughters. 33 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

The death of Mr. F. C. Millward, of Wanganui, is reported. Mr. Millward was secretary of the Wanganui Harbor Board, a post which he held with every credit for a number of years until failing health caused him to relinquish it, although he continued for some time to assist the Board in an advisory capacity.

Miss Helen M. Tracey, a Canadian teacher, has been appointed to the position of 4th assistant at the West End School for a period of twelve months, as from February 1. Miss Tracey came from Strathcona school, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is at present in New Zealand in connection with the scheme for the exchange between New Zealand and Canadian teachers. Mr. J. J. Virgo, world’s representative of the Y.M.C.A., who arrived in New Zealand from England last week, states that Mr. J. A. Lang, national secretary for Australia (and who is well known in New Zealand), is leaving Australia for America shortly for domestic reasons. He is being succeeded by Mr. Alec Jamieson, who comes from Ame-

A Press telegram from Christchurch reports that private advice has been received, announcing the death in London, on January 22, of Archdeacon Harper at the age of 89. He was the son of the late Bishop Harper (Primate of New Zealand) and was born at Eton in 1833. He was educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree in 1859. Archdeacon Harper worked in many parishes in the South Island and was for many years vicar at Timaru.

Mr. K. B. Bain, of Eltham, has been appointed manager for Canterbury and Westland for the Insurance Office of Australia, and will leave early in March for Christchurch, where his headquarters will be. Mr. Bain is well known throughout Taranaki, having been for the past 2 1 / 4 years associated with Mr. W. J. Tristram in connection with the Taranaki Farmers' Mutual, and for eight years prior to that he was stationed m New Plvmouth as manager of the State Insurance Office. He was very prominent in cricket circles, having captained both North and South Taranaki and also the province.

Lieutenant Hissamud Din Khan,D.S.O., of the 23rd Indian Cavalry, who recently arrived in the Dominion, is a son of Colonel Nawab Sir Aslam Khan, who was an A.D.C. to the late King Edward, and iA a member of one of the Indian royal houses. Lieutenant Khan has seen service in several campaigns, as well as in Mesopotamia. He was four times mentioned in dispatches in the European war, and holds the British Empire Order and the Distinguished Service Order. He will devote his time in Fiji to inquiries into the possibility of settling discharged officers and soldiers of the Indian army on the. land in Fiji. He is at present at Rotorua for the fishing, and will go to Fiji by the island boat early in February.