PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL.

A message from Vancouver states that Prince George arrived there on Monday last from China en route to London. A London message states that His Majesty the King granted an audience to Rear-Admiral A. F. Beal, lately first member of the New Zealand Naval Board. Mr. and Mrs. Blackman, former residents of Okaiawa, have returned there after spending the past six years in the Old Country. Mr. Reginald Cheyne Berkeley, Liberal M.P. for Nottingham Central, was married to Mrs. Clara Digby, states a Press Agpociation cablegram from London. Mr. S. D. Spiers has resigned from the Union Steam Ship Company’s New Plymouth branch to take up farming, aiid yesterday the members of the staff presented him with a case of military hair brushes, wishing him every success in his new vocation. The death is announced of Airs. Kate McCosh Clark, aged 7» years, widow of James McCosh Clark, who was Mayor of Auckland from 1880 to 1883. The deceased lady wrote a number of works on Maori folk lore, as well as some books of poems.—Press Assn. A Pi ess Association message from Pahiatua states that Mr. A. H. Tocker, who has been appointed Professor of Economics at Canterbury College, was for some years first assistant at the Mangatainoka school during the headmastership of Mr. G. W. Chatwin, who has now retired. Mr. Tocker’s many friends in that district are very pleased to learn of his important appointment. The new professor has been a fine athlete. A Press Association message from Christchurch announces the death at Montreal, Canada, of Mr. W. H. E. Wanklyn, formerly of Hawera. Mr. Wanklyn was the first town clerk under the Borough Council at Hawera and was also secretary of the Egmont Racing Club, resigning those positions in 1891 to take over the secretaryship of the Canterbury Jockey Club. He officiated In the latter capacity for a considerable number of years and was also secretary of the New Zealand Racing Conference. News was received in Waitara on Monday of the death of Mrs. Madsen, relict of the late M. C. Madsen, which occurred suddenly on the previous night at Pahiatua, where she was on a visit to her son. The deceased lady was a very old resident of the Wairarapa district, where she had resided for over fifty years, the last twenty of which she had lived in Masterton. Five sons, one daughter and twelve grandchildren are left to mourn their loss. The sons include Mr. N. Madsen (proprietor of the Waitara Evening Mail).

The centenary of the birth of Lord Lister, who discovered the antiseptic treatment characteristic of modern surgerv, will be celebrated in London early in April, '1927, by the Royal Society, of which he was president, 1895-1900. The University of New Zealand has received from’the society, through its president, Sir Ernest Rutherford, 0.M., an invitation to be represented at the celebrations; and has appointed as its delegate Dr. D. Colquhoun, M.D., F.R.C.P. (London), M.R.C.S. (England), emeritus professor of medicine in the Medical School, Dunedin, and now resident in London. Mr. Alfred Trimble, ex-clerk of the court at Hawera, and also at Napier, whose death was reported from Hastings on Monday, was the eldest son of the late Colonel Trimble, of Inglewood. He was born at Garston, near Liverpool, England, in 1857, and eighteen years later came to the Dominion with his parents, who took up land near Inglewood. Air. Trimble worked as a carpenter, and, always interested In the volunteers, was elected captain of No. 3 Company, Inglewood Rangers, in 1879, when hostilities with the natives seemed imminent. In 1881 he was appointed clerk of the Magistrate’s Court and district land officer at Hawera, and held the former position until, 1907, when he was transferred to Napier. Owing to failing sight, he retired medically unfit in 1912, and practically ever since has resided at Havelock North. —Star. Noel S. Bayliss, of Queen’s College University, ’Melbourne, has been chosen as the Rhodes Scholar for Victoria for 1927. He is not yet 20 years of age, and attended the Coburg High School from 1917 to 1920. He continued his education at the Melbourne High School, where he was dux of the school, and the winner of a Government senior scholarship. He also won there ths Rix prize, awarded on the same basis as the Rhodes Scholarship. In his three years at Melbourne University he has taken a science course, gaining exhibitions in chemistry, natural philosophy, and pure mathematics in his first year, and chemistry and natural philosophy in his second year. If successful in his examinations in December next he will gain the Bachelor of Science degree. He is a member of the Queen’s College eightoared crew, and is also a tennis player. At Oxford he will continue the study of chemistry. Mr. V. J. Flynn has been selected as the New South Wales Rhodes Scholar for 1927. He is in his 23rd year, and was educated at St. Aloysius College, North Sydney, and at Sydney University, where he studied law.