PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. Rollo, of New Plymouth, is joining the steamer City of Corinth as fifth engineer. Sir Gordon Hewart, who has been appointed Lord Chief Justice of England, will be elevated to the peerage (says a London cable).

A London message states the T.ien-tenant-Commander Hilton married Lady Scott in the crypt chapel of the House of Commons. Mr. Chamberlain gave away the bride. Misses E. M. Pearce and E. Andrews and Mr. O. J. Howarth have been appointed delegate® to represent the Taranaki branch at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute, to be held in Wellington during May. A rumor is current in Eltham that Mr. H> D. Forsyth intends to contest the Egmont seat against Mr. O. J. Hawken at the next election, but the Argus cannot vouch for the authenticity of the information. Dr. John Doekrill, of New Plymouth, who served during the war as a captain in the R.A.M.C., has been on a visit to Ireland, where his uncle is a professor in the University of Dublin (write® a London correspondent). He has qual'• fied for his medical degrees at Dublin.

Mr. T. Ross, of Dunedin, Worshipful Master of the New Zealand Constitution of Free Masons, is at present on a visit to Taranaki. To-night he meets representatives of New Plymouth Masonic Lodges, and wall pay visits to Inglewood, Stratford and Hawera during the week. Mr Arthur Brett, of Auckland, arrived in Wellington from Auckland on Friday. He motored down through Taupo and Napier, and brought Mr. James Meiklejohn and his sister (Mrs. Gillespie), who are Queensland residents, with him. They return by way of New Plymouth, taking steamer at this port for Onehunga, after ascending Mount Egmont. Mr. Brett found the roads in very fair .order. A London cable says the King gave an audience to Mr. A. J. Balfour, who recently returned from Washington, where he was Britain's chief Relegate, and invested him with the order of Knight of the Garter. This is the highest and most highly prized honor of knighthood that the Kmg can confer, and Mr. Balfour is the only Commoner” member of the most noble order which has hitherto been confined to the Royal family, sovereigns jnd princes of other lands, and twenty-five of the English nobility.

The death occurred suddenly yes terdav of Mrs. Mary A. Callaghan at her residence, Vivian Street, New Plymouth. The late Mrs. Callaghan, who was fo-m--erlv a resident in the Stratford district, retired at about halt past ten on Saturday night, and was apparently in ner usual state of health. At 5.30 yesterday morning, however, die was lound dead in bed. Deceased had been suffering for some time from a weak heart. She was 68 years of age and leaves a grown-up family. At an inquest held before Mr. A. M. Mowlem, b.M., last night a verdict of death from heart failure was returned.

At the. annual meeting of the Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute a resolution was passed, on the motion of Messrs. Sims and Evans placing on record its appreciation of the services of Mr. F. A. Tvrer on his retirement from the position of headmaster at the Stratford District High School. The resolution pointed out that Mr. Tyrer had given distinguished service in the cause o’ education in Taranaki his lengthy headmastership, and by his organising skill and ability had earned for the school a Dominion reputation. The Institute congratulated him on hi® eminent success and hoped he would be spared many years to enjoy his wed earned retirement.