PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr JJinliiH i>l to fwnporarily tako charge, of tho Pohoiiiii School.

Air D. If. Outline, M.1 , ., bn.s boon Muiferiiig from an. a.tLaok of eyoiut-iw, but: i» now recovering.

Mr C. Stanley .Brown, tiolicifor, I'oihling, goes into camp as a. noncom, on February 8.

Mr Git'bite.s, healdeaeher of the Obaleca Scihool, is laid up with Koarliot lover, a.nd arrangeniJoiits; aro being iiindo to hc-nd out, relieving IwkjJk'J".

Tho Rev. J. I). Hnssell, of Oamnrii, IdriiKO-ly of I'etono, has been re-oloct-ed Dominion .secretary ol tho Church ol Kngland Men's Society.

Mr (.'has. Smith, manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Palmcndon, has arrived safely in l/ondou with Mrs Smith, and his condition is .satisfactory. j\lr Smith undertook the voyago for tho benefit of his health.

Ca.pt. \V. .1. Hardbani, V.C., who was returning invalided to Now Zealand by tho R.otoniii, disembarked at Ilobarl. in order to undergo a slight operation. His parents yesterday received a cablegram from him, stating: "All's well. Don't, worry."

Dγ C. I'}. Adams, ..M.A., Astronomical Observer to the Now Zealand Government, returned to "Wellington from America, by the Maitai. Dr Ailains was the winner of tbo Kellogg Scholarship, which entitled him to a. year's residence at tho famous Lick Observatory, near San Francisco.

The death occurred in Wellington on Saturday of a well-known Masterton resident, in the person of Mrs La Roche, relict of tho late Mr J. J.I. La .Roche, ab the ago of 57 years. She, wa.s tbo mother of Mr Cyril La Roche, who, before joining the 7th reinforcements, was on tlie staff of tbo Bank ol New Zealand, Keilding. Another .son, Clarence, has gone with tho Bth , h, and there arc three sons and three daughters icjt in New Zealand.

".loffre," says a -Spanish Deputy who has just visited him, "resides in a little chalet, in the midst of a garden. Tbo headquarters and offices ol tbo Staff aro in. a hotel a quarter of a mile away. Jofl're'.s house is very modest and simple. Nothing would lead one to suppose that it is inhabited by the man who commands one of the iniglil iesl, armies ever known. No sonfinoli-v at the door, no hurrying to and fro of chiefs and officers."

Dr tjuicbi Soyeda. former bead of the Japan Industrial Hank, and one of the best-known abroad of Japan's l>lll>l it: men, has been appointed president of the Imperial Railway Hoard,, ■in succession to Dr Sengoku. Dr Soyeda lias bad- a varied career in 30 years ol public life. He; returned from Cambridge and Heidellmrg Universities in ISS7. and. alter occupying minor departmental poets, became VicH-Mitiistor of Finance in the *.short-lived Okffrna Cabinet of 1898. He was president of the newly-formed .Hank of Formosa in 1899. which position he resigned to become presidont of the Japan Industrial Rank on the establishment of this institution in 1002. Mo resigned in 1913, and visitefl America, nincn when he has been active as writer and speaker.