PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1707, 23 December 1919, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Rev. Donald Baker has been elected Bisupp of Bendigo (stated a cable from ' Hobart). ■ A Press, Association telegram from Christ, church states that "Mr E. E. Stark, city \ electrical engineer, has resigned. . eath * s recorded from Christchurch , °* "*r John Slater Royds, formerly receiver I 01 land revenue nt Invercargill. ■ ¥• -?*• McGrath, licensee of the limirlogiQ Junction (Woirarapa) Hotel, has died at the age of- 57 years. , vrr arn( ; s > w .ho has been postmaster VVaipawa for the past ten. yearn has Post Office° tCd to tllo cbtuge of ”‘ e Marion • At Napier last Friday, Mr Trevor M. uedclis, suo-uditor of the Napier Telegraph, “ d r ?y eat son of Hon. W. J. Geddis, was married to Miss Myra Ringland, of NApier. r WoodvUle on Sunday evening tlio M°(i David’s Presbyterian Church Panted ihejr minuter, Rev. R. Gardner, estoen SUb ''' tttUtm chcc l uo as a mark of their

A 'A Pil^lnffton ’ lorawriy Adjutantto * lO .^ ew Zealand Forces, who S ln En * land and Franco for Ihiffton thl ’ ee ycarß> “ returning to Wclvoars 8ha »’i. wl J? was * or tw dve of tho 0ta s° Daily Times, nas resigned in order to take up dairy tokZ ng of 0n t ihe {*■*» Peninsula.- P aH nurse . / fl ostc< ™ he waa presented with a the - d dav h °of do fl.i h p 2f Maßl «rton ycsforMethodi^V— V i S ‘ T< P riol > a former Methodist Minister, aged 68 years. Ho was associated with tho Methodist Church m various parts of Now Zealand for many iSation r ° tlred 80m ° y ° arS ag °-~ PrOSS i Guy has retired from tho ogol farm of Guy and Rapley, tho business being earned on in the same premises by -ur Kaplev under tho firm’t; name. It is understood that from tho commencement of the new yeijr, Mr Rapley will amalgamate Ins business with tliat of Messrs Cooper and Ruthorfurd, the now firm of Cooper, Kaploy and Ruthorfurd to use tho premises at present occupied by Messrs .Guy and Rapley, and Mr R. H. Spencer. Advice has been received in Hamilton of the sudden death in England of Dr J. A, Going formerly of Hamilton. Dr Going was 68 years old. He loft Hamilton last July, and was practising in Cambridgeshire, England. Ho had also rimef-Gorl in niinmic. I

i 4 *o lu, " u : ll xlt L naa ' alßo practised in Uuecnsland and the Falkland Islands. Deceased is survived by a- widow and one son, Mr Philip Going, who resides at Cambridge, Waikato. All the Ministers of the Crown were in town vesterday, Most of them will bo leaving Wellington at some time during the j holidays. Sir James Allen is leaving for j the south this evening, to spend Christmas ;at Jus homo in Dunedin. Mr Massey will probably stay in Wellington over Christmas, but he intends to go north for some days • before the New Year holidays. I The late Sir Philip Fysh, ox-Promior of lasmama, whoso death was recorded by cable yesterday, entered political life in lasmama in 1866, Ho was Treasurer from 1873 to 1875 and Premier from 1877 to 1878 and from 1887 to 1892. Ho led the Opposition in the Legislative Council from 1 1892 to 1894, and was Treasurer from 18(34 ito 1899. Ho was a Minister without porti folio in tho first Commonwealth Cabinet ' from 1901 to 1903 and Postmaster-General till .1904. He retired from Federal politics in 1909. . ... I Mr W. H. Rhodes, of Amberloy, who died last week, was born at Lyttelton in 1854, and jin 1867 accompanied by his father, ■ tho lute Mr Alfred Rhodes, to Leith field! Later he joined the firm of Messrs Bean and Co., in- Amberloy, and wheft they relinquished business in 1890 M r Rhodes’ took over the produce branch, which he had since conducted. Mr Rhodes was a member of the various local organisations and bodies. Ho was returning officer for the Hurunui electorate, but as he had been ill for some time he | had not been actively engaged in tho duties of that office. Ono of the oldest residents of Pacroa .(Thames district), Mr John Wullonora Thorp, died last week at the age of 82 ycars Mr Thorp was a son of tho late Mr Joshua Thorp, of Sydney, and was born at W’ullanora, New South Wales. He was connected with the earliest goldmining operations in the Thames district and in Otago. Accompanied by the native chief, Tekepa Raharahi, Mr Thorp found gold at Rotekohu, and also near Karangahako. which was the first gold found in that part of tho district. As a volunteer he served under Captain Jackson at Raglan and at Wnipa. Captain Walter H. Paterson, master stevedore for tho Shaw Savill and Albion Coy., at Lyttelton, died at Christchurch last week following an operation. Captain Paterson hud a long career at sea. Ho served his time in sailing ships, and subsequently joined tho White Star Line of Liver pool, in which, as a junior officer, ho was contemporary with tho late Captain Smith, of the Titanic, and several of the proaem senior commanders. He brought out from England a small vessel of 124 tons for the Union Steamship Company of New Zoa land, occupying 120 days. For some time Captain Paterson sailed as chief officer in tho Union Company's service, and subse qurntly was appointed pilot at the Bluff, and later to tho position ho held at the time of his decease.