PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8447, 25 November 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. H. Hoult, 8.A., of the Wellington Training School, has been appointed master of the Woodville High School. Mr Tom Stubbs,\well known in running and football circles, has returned to Palmerston North after a visit to the Old Country extending over a period of three years. Mr A. Elliot, Collector of Customs, Wanganui, was in Palmerston to-day for the purpose of watching the cases of opium smoking which were called on at tho Court, this morning. Mr H. H. Smith, for many years manager of the Bank of Australasia in Masterton, is now settled in Adelaide, and has taken to an outdoor life. On Mr Smith's property there-is an orange grrivo and fruit in abundance. A cable from London to-day conveys information of the death of Sir Arthur KtSkewich, Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice since 1886. He was formerly standing counsel to the Bank of England. Death followed an operation for appendicitis. Sir Arthur was born in. 1832, and was therefore 75 years of age. Mrs Lilla Billson, widow of the late Mr A. Billson, M.P. for North-West Staffordshire, is to take the same rank and title as she would have had if her husband had survived to receive the honour of Knight Bachelor at the hands of his Majesty. Mr Billson's knighthood had been announced in the list of birthday honours published/the week previous to his death. With the rising of the House an exodus from Wellington begins. His Excellency the Governor and his per sonal staff leave for Taranaki to-morrow irerning, having arranged to go into camp for a week near Hawera, to test the streams in that vicinity for trout. The party then continues on to Auckland, to make the Government House in that city its centre for the summer months. . Lady Plunket and the Hon. Kathleen Plunket leave for the north to-day for the camp.