PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable announces the death of Lord Sinclair, w-ho served in the 57th Regiment during the Maori war. The fifteenth baron Lord Sinclair has been a representative peer of Scotland since ISBS. He entered the army in 1848 and served in the 57th Regiment in the Crimean war, the Indian mutiny and in New Zealand, and he retired with the rank of colonel in 187'8. Lord Sinclair was in hia 91st year.

The New Plymouth Convent has been notified by mail from London that one of their pupils, Miss Mary Crawahaw, ■has been successful in gaining an exhibition in the intermediate grade of pianoforte playing. Thia little girl, who is only ten years of age, obtained 93 marks, the highest in thia grade last year in New Zeaand. Thia ia the fourth year in succession that the New Plymouth Convent has gained an exhibition in Trinity College, London.

A Wanganui message announces the death of Mr. Alfred Burnett, at the age of 69, one of the earliest settlers in the Wanganui district. Ho arrived there in 1856 with his parents. He was a successful farmer and- was closely identified with the freezing industry, being, one of fhe founders of the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company. He also took an active part in public affairs. He showed great interest in the returned soldiers. Besides donating largely to the funds he gave the site on which the clubhouse now stands. He was a member of the patriotic executive from its inception.

Mr. J. H. Beattie, librarian and curator at the Carnegie Institute, New Plymouth, for the past sixteen months, relinquishes the position shortly for private reasons. At the annual meeting of library subscribers last night the chairman of the committee (Mr. \V. H. Skinner) said he fet sure he was expressing the opinion of all the committee and subscribers in saying they were sorry to lose Mr. Beattie. He had made good and had not studied himself, and he was leaving the institution, especially the museum, thoroughly organised. Mr. Skinner mentioned that through his loyalty to the library Mr. Beattie had gone against his own interests, having refused a position in the South Island last year on account of the fact that the cataloguing of the museum and other work was the only partially completed Eulogistic references to Mr. Beattie’s capabilities were also made by other speakers. Opportunity was taken to welcome his successor, Mr. E. Ellerm.