PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6962, 30 October 1909, Page 5

PERSONALIA

Mr William Kobbs has returned from Sydney and Melbourne.

Mr E. 11. Taylor, M.P. for Ihames, was admitted into a private hofip-tal yesterday. Jle underwent an operation which wa« succussful.

Mr Sidney Wolf, of Dunedin. who acted" as judiie at tho Hastings Land contest, has been appointed judge for the WanKanui contest. TJ» Eaves was la.st night re-elected an the New Zealand Cawii Tennis Association's d'dee;atc to the Kn-Ush Associa-

liishop Wollis will visit Hawera or. Thursday, where ho holds a confirmation wrv-ice. ".Masterton will bo visited, on the 17th, Otaki on tlio 26th, and Wansanui on th': 2Slh November.

Mr A. 11. Hansen, of Now Plymouth, ha.s been, appointed Government produce trader at Uisborne, and Mr W. Dempster, of Levin, takes tho former's place at New i'lymouth. Tho tentative application of Mr Luks, instructor in electricity at the Welling; ton 'Technical School, for twelve montns l-.Mive of absence, without salary, hi order to permit of hi* gaii'ms experience in his trade iu iJurope, was approved at last iiiifht's meeting of the board. At his residence. Lower Jlutt, to-night Mr Henry llix-Trott, C.E.. is. to U presented with a combined sovereign-cawc and matchbox (the former filled u;ith sovereigns) in recognition of his services as borough engineer, and in testimony of the donors' (some- seventy odd porsoiis) opinion of him as a fellow-resident. According to cable ad-vico tho Hon. W. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for .New Z«alan<l, had u heai-t seizure on Tuesday. .Lator news -was that Mr Hall-Jones waa reooveriiiK. A Press Association cable mossago from London last night trtatas that Mr C. AVray I'alli&er in act-iiiK-llitrh Cbminissiouer until Mr HallJones recovers from hia illness.

Cable advico has been received from London of the death of Mr William Oibiion, who was formerly in business as a hardware merchant in Wellington, aged seventy-eevon. He was one of the. piomoters of the first company formed to work the Taranaki ironsand dei>osits. Mr John Scott, of the Wellington Meat Exliort Company, is his nephew. After seventeen years' service on tho teaching staff of the Wellington Girls* College, Miss Morrah has been obliged, on account of ill-health, to resign her post. At yesterday's mooting of the Collego Board of Governors highly oulogistic references to .Miss Morrah's services were made by members. An appreciative resolution, was passed by the board. Mr W. T. Wynward, a olerk in the former Stock Division of tho Department of Agriculture, has been appointed district agent of the department at Wellington. Mr P. N. Cubitt, a cadet in the former Biological Division, has been appointed a laboratory assistant in tho biological section of the head office of tho department. Our Cnristckurch correspondent reports the death, of Mrs Emma Poarce, a well-known resident of New Brighton. Sho was a direct descendant of one of the Huguenot families which left France to settle in England. She retained French individuality to a great extent, and oould speak the language fluently. Her maternal grandfather fougnt under Nelson, being on the Victory at Nelson's death. Mr E. P. Truman, a well-known musician, for many years organist at St. Matthew's Church, Dunedin, and later of All Saints'. Hunter's Hill, Sydney, is her brother, and Mr Ernest Truman, L.K.C.M. and A.E.C.0., also of Sydney, is her nephew.

Mr Robert Evans, Customs Docker at Wellington, has retired on superanoiua.tioai. Air Evans, who was born in Ireland sixty-three years ago, came out to New Zealand as a youth. In 1863 he was appointed superintendent of the Imperial Transport corps at Wanganui. In the following year Mr Evans transferred to tho Colonial Transport corps, and was present at the relief of Pipiriki when the Hauhaus surrendered. He also served with Major Braesey, when, in 1865 he went from Wellington to Opotiki (Poverty Bay) with 500 men, to avenge the murder of the Kev. Volkner. After that experienoa Mr Evans proceeded to tlie Thames diggings, and later revisited Ireland. Subsequently' Mr Evans went to the "United States, where ho resided 1 for twelve months prior,to returning to New Zealand. He joined the Customs service in, 1379. Mr A. C. Sutton has been appointed to succeed Mr Evans.