PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12769, 15 April 1910, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Colonel -Allen Bell, commanding the second ■ regiment of Auckland Mounted Rifles has bean instructed by the Defence Department to proceed to England to undergo a six months' course of training in military duties. | Mr. W. Eyre-Kenny, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Eyre-Kenny, of Ne.w Plymouth, and an. old Now Plymouth boy, recently received the , important appointment of head of the Department of Mines in the Federated Malay States. "■'".. -.•■•-'■-. Mt Frank G. McQuarrie, repregnting Mr. W. G. Hearne, of Victoria, is at present making a tour of this district. '' ■ • . » '.A London cable massage says, that Lady Dudley, wife of the GovernorGeneral of-' 1 Australia, who has been seriously ill, purposes sailing on the Ostorly Grange to join her Inisband. A Gisborne Press Association message states that Lady Ward yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a large concourse of people, named the children'Bcrehce organised by the "Women's Guild, . "The. Hine , Materoa Creche," being named aifter Mrs Carroll, the wife of the Native Minister, who is^a distinguished daughter of New Zealand. A Wellington press message says that Mr Charles Rhodes has been appointed. Consular Agent for Italy in Auckland. The^death is reported from Gisborne of. Mrs Muir, wife of Mr Allan Muir, proprietor, of the "Poverty. Bay Herald," and a daughter of the late Mr .James ChailpeU; who for. many years resided in' Ererton Terrace, Wellington. . : Mr W. F. Massey.Leader of the Opposition, went south last night. He" ■has arranged to- visit Otago this week. Before the session he will deliver addTesseß in various towns throughout the Dominion. He. has definitely promised to speak at Hokitika, probably within the next fortnight. * Mr. John Snowden,: who died at'tho Veterans' Home, Auckland, a "few days igo, was born at Greenheads, Northumberland. Hejßnlist6d.into the 99th Fodt in 1853, and went '"to Tasmania with a draft of that. regiment in.pharge of cpnvicts. On the Maori war breaking out he was sent over to New Zealand with, a portion of his regiment, and joined the 66th Foot, and_ took part in- the .whole of th© Maori campaigns in the T^aikatft and. Taranaki districts. Debeiße<i was a rugged old oharacter and vexy popular. : '