PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. S. Connett, chairman of the Taranaki County Council, is on a visit to Wellington. Mrs. R. Tabor, who has been spending a few days in New Plymouth, leaves for Wellington this morning, and sails for England by the Tainui about May 9. Sir John Salmond, who represented New Zealand at the Washington Conference, has arrived in Sydney from England, en route to the Dominion. Mr. V. G. Day, S.M., presided at the sitting of an Assessment Court at New Plymouth yesterday. He will be at Stratford to-day, proceeding to Auckland to-morrow. On account‘of the many matters of great importance waiting to be dealt with in New Zealand at present, Mr. Massey has been reluctantly compelled to postpone his visit to Samoa.—Press Association. Mrs. Anne Taylor, who died at Addington on Saturday, m her ninetieth year, was the mother of the late Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., the well-known prohibition advocate, who, at the time of his death, in 1911, was Mayor of Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were both energetic workers, with their son, in the cause of prohibition. Throughout her life, and at the time of her deatlu she was keenly interested in all political aiid social movements. Mrs. Taylor outlived her husband by 15 years. She leaves three daughters, 13 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. The death is reported in Dublin of Richard Croker, formerly the Tammany Hall boss. Tammany Hall was a political organisation in New York purporting to represent the Democratic Party. The first boss was'Tweed, who, by frauds of unprecedented magnitude, got control of the chief offices and became the virtual ruler of New York. Tweed was sent to prison for 12 years, and was succeeded by Kelly and Looker. A committe of investigation found that Croker followed Tweed’s methods of blackmail and corruption. Croker retired to Ireland in 1903, and Murphy succeeded