PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. Phillips, of New Plymouth, and formerly of Inaha, is seriously ill. Lieut.-Coloncl James Campbell, of Connaught, Ireland, will arrive by the mail train this evening on a visit to New Plymouth. The Rev. J. A. Julius, vicar of Timaru, was instituted by the archdeaconry of Timaru and Westland by the Bishop of Christchurch at a special service in the Cathedral on Wednesday evening. Mr. H. Hine, Mayor of Te Kuiti, will not be a candidate for the Waitomo seat at the next election as has been stated. He was asked by tli£ Reform Party to do so, but has definitely decided not to owing to the pressure of his public duties. The death is reported of Mrs. Rayney Jackson, of Wanganui. She was a daughter of the late -Mr. David Peat, and a sister to Mrs. A. Alexander, of New Plymouth. During the war she did fine work on behalf of the various war relief funds.

The death occurred at New Plymouth on Tuesday of another old identity, Mrs. Elizabeth Allan, who came out to New Zealand with her parents in the ship Duke of Portland 65 or G 6 years ago. The late Mrs. Allan had resided in Taranaki ever since, and was wellknown and held in high esteem by a large circle of friends. She leaves four sons and four daughters.

One of Auckland’s oldest citizens, Mr. Andrew Joaquin Fernandez, sem., of Nugent Street, died on Tuesday. Mr. Fernandez, who was in his 87th year, was born at Santander, iu Spain. He came to New Zealand in the early “sixties,” and after trading between Sydney afid Bluff for a brief period he took up his residence in Auckland in 1863. The Maori war b'dke out about that time, and for some years Mr. Fernandez was engaged in providoring the warships and troops. Subsequently he entered the hotel business, and he was successively the licensee of the Railway Terminus and Britomart Hotels. Mr. S. Percy Smith, of New Plymouth, was unable to attend yesterday’s annual meeting of the Polynesian Society, of wljiich body he is president. The meeting carried the following resolution: “That the society desires to express to the president, its deepest sympathy with him in his present illness, and trusts that he may soon be restored to health and continue his valuable ethnographic work; also the society wishes to again record their high appreciation of the great work done by Mr. Smith as editor for the Journal since its inception in 1892 and of his many valued contributions to the ethnology of the Polynesian races.”