PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable saye the late Sir Ernest Shackleton left all his unsettled property, amounting to £556, to his wife. His personal property was nil.

Late advice states that Mr. F. B. Glasgow', manager of the Union Bank at Rangiora, who met with a serious accident a week ago, has not yet regained consciousness.

Messrs. McKay, Corrigan, Marx and Murdoch left Hawera by the mail train yesterday morning for Wellington to attend a meeting called to discuss matters in connection with the meat pool. Messrs. Morton, Connett and Brown were also on the express.

Mr. O. Hawken, M.P., was a passenger for Wellington by the express yesterday morning. He will wait on the Minister of Public Works and the Minister of Lands in connection with ■ certain requirements of his electorate. A London message reports the death of Sir Leslie Ward, who has been wellknown for many years as a cartoonist, under the name of “Spy.” He was also a successful portrait painter. A Wellington message says that Mr. M. J. Mack, president of the Alliance of Labor and secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, denies that he has any intention of standing for Parliament at the general election.

The Rev. J. Napier Milne has been appointed editor of the Methodist Times in succession to the Rev. W. J. Williams, who has relinquished the editorship after a- long period of service. A Reuter message from Manila reports that Rear-Admiral Dumaresque, late commander of the Australian station, is seriously ill with pneumonia.

A Sydney message states that the Rev. George Rayner has been elected president of the Australasian Congregational Assembly, and the Rev. McCook Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly. The resignations of Miss Lilian Clark, a masseuse at the New Plymouth hospital, and of Nurse Marjorie Leed, as district nurse at UFuti, were accepted with regret at 'yesterday’s meeting of the Hospital Board. Misses Adlam (Waverley) and Hunt (Dannevirke) were, at yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board, placed on the waiting list of probationers at the New Plymouth hospital.

A vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. S. Percy Smith was carried at yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board, the chairman expressing regret at the loss the country had sustained by the death of Mr. Percy Smith.