PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9183, 6 April 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

-Mr V. M. Braund, a well-known resident of Wellington, is on a visit to Palmerston.

Or. W. Stubbs, who left for Rotorua yesterday, has been granted a month's leave of absence by the Borough Council.

Mr W. T. Wood, who hae been indisposed for some weeks past, left for the North yesterday on a health recruiting trip.

Mr 11. F. Toogood, the newly-appoint-ed engineer to the Hokitika Harbour Board, is expected to arrive in Auckland on April 13th from Singapore, and will probably visit his relatives in Featherston before entering upon his duties.

A telegram from Nelson says that tho funeral of the late Hon. Francis Trask, M.L.C., will take place on Saturday next, and it is expected that it will bo attended by mourners from all parts of the Dominion.

Mr J. N. Cbapham. who has been in the local hospital for several weeks, was well enough to return to his home yesterday. Ho hopes to be able to give his attention to business again in a week or two.

Mr James McLeod, who has for tho past four and a half years filled the position of sub-editor of the Taranaki Dailv News, has severed his connection with" that journal to join the proprietary of Messrs J. Hooker and Co., printers, of New Plymouth.

The friends of Mr David Kennedy will regret to hear of his death, which occurred at the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday after a brief illness. The deceased leaves a widow and one child. He was a brother of Sergt. Kennedy, the well-known rifle shot, and Mr E. Kennedy, bootmaker, of Feilding.

Sergt. Maguire, who has been transferred to Palmerston, vice Sergt. Stagpoole removed to Oamaru, is due here on Friday. Ho has been presented by the police staff at tho Mount Cook station with a handsome liqueur stand. In making the presentation, Sergt. Rutledgo referred in appreciative terms as to tho courteous and kindly and other good qualities which characterised Sergt. Maguire. The latter suitably responded.

Mr F. Cater, a well-known Auckland musician, arrived in town yesterday and will take up his residence here. It is probable ho" will join the Orchestral Society, also Mr C. Pickering's orche6tra, and* will be a valuable addition to tho musical talent of the town. It is also quite probable that Mr Frank R. Johnstone, the 'cello player, will shortly take up his residence here.

Rev. H. S. Woolcombc will visit Palmerston this month in connection with the Church of England Men's Society movement. The rev. gentleman is making a world-wide tour in the interests of the Society. Ho comes with a message to men of the Dominion from 80,000 fel-low-men of the Old Country. The press throughout the Dominion speak in the highest praise of his earnestness and magnetic personality.

Miss Marianne Hensley died at Bath, England, on February 14th, at the age of 104. She retained her faculties and courage to tho end, and would sit for hours reading, writing, sewing or knitting in her room. October 15th was her birthday, and on the last two anniversaries Miss Hensley received congratulatory messages from King Edward, to which she replied in her own neat handwriting. She had dwelt for seventy-six years continuously in the same house.