PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 February 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., of New Plymouth, has been notified of his transfer to Masterton.

General Andrews, of Christchurch, the head of the Boy -Scouts movement in New Zealand, will shortly be visiting Taranaki.

Mr and Mrs Geo. Taylor, of Argyle street, have arranged to pay a trip to the Old Country, and will leave Wellington on February 17. The length of the trip is undecided, and will depend on conditions at Home. It is 46 years since they left England, and they have not been out of the 'Dominion since that time.

The Governor-General, accompanied by Her Excellency, proposes to pay an official visit to the Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa in May of this year. Their Excellencies will leave Auckland on or about April 26 in the Governmeant steamer Tutanekai, visiting first the islands of the Cook group and then proceeding to Niue and Samoa. They expect to return to Wellington towards the end of the first week in June. The last visit by the Governor-General to New Zealand’s dependencies and the mandated territorv of Samoa was made in 1919.

A Press Association message from Wellington announced the death of Mr Lews M. B. Wilson, at the age of 77. He arrived in New Zealand in 186 1 and was for a long -period in the Marine Department. He then entered business in Wellington and was identified with the opening of the: Kelburn subnub. He was for years secretary of the Kelburn Tramway Company. Following on his acceptance of Ministerial rank, the Hon. 0. J. Hawken has resigned his position on the Dairy Producers’ Export Control Board. The appointment of a successor will be made before the next board meeting (says a Wellington Press Association message). Mrs. W. E. Hollaid and family, of Kaponga, who for the past month have been residing at Ngamotu beach (New Plymouth), returned to Ivaponga on Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Clcland, of Kaponga, who have been on a visit to New Plymouth, where Mr. Cleland has been spending a period of convalescence at the seaside after his recent illness, returned to Kaponga on Monday. Mr. Cleland has made very favourable progress and it is expected that lie will shortly be fully restored to normal health

News has reached Dunedin - that Bishop William W. Ca,ssels, D.D., died at Paoning, in the province of Szechwan, China, on November 7 last, and that Mrs. Gassets died on November 15, each after a brief illness of typhus fever. Bishop Gassets was world-wide known as a member of “The Cambridge Seven,” who joined the Rev. Hudson Taylor in the work of the China Inland Mission in 1885. He then was known as tlie Rev. W. V, Cbssels, graduate of Cambridge University, and late curate of All Saints’ Church, South Lambeth, England. In 1895 a new diocese in Western China was* formed, and when on his first furlough, Mr Gassets was consecrated bishop of it. Thus for more than thirty years he exercised episcopal oversight, continuing to act a.s superintendent of the work of the China Inland Mission- in Eastern Szechwan, to which position he was appointed in 1890 with a seat on the council. Deceased is the first one of “The- Clambridge Seven” removed by death. All the others are still actively engaged in missionary labour, “The Seven” included the Rev. CL T. Studd, the famous cricketer, and the Rev. R, E. Hoste.