PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13912, 20 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. John Scott, consulting engineer, of Toronto, Canada, is at present staying at "Waimii." He will visit the waterworks to-day in company with Mr. W. Lock, Mayor.

A Press Association cable from London states that Mr A. F. W Tilch'ng, the tennis champion, ha© become a director of the Continental Motor Tyre Company,

It is with much regret we learn that Mr W. Houlker, sonr., is seriously indisposed.

Lady Bell, widow oi' the lato Sir Joshua Peter Bell, is de-nl, says a Brisbane Press Association cable.

The Hon. W. F. Massey has greatly benefited by his rost, and left Auckland for Wellington on Sunday night. He returns to Auckland in a month's time to turn the first sod of th.3 branch railway to W 7aiuku.

The Rev. James Flanagan, the London missionary and evangelist, leaves Wellington on January 30 lor South Africa, where he will undertake a lecturing tour.

Mr James Whisker, for many years employed at Cable's iron foundry, Wellington, died at Te Kuiti. For over 20 years deceased was a prominent figure in the Wellington corps of the Salvation Army.

Mr Purcell Web!), organist of St. Knox Church, Mastcrt.cn has been presented with a purse of sovereigns prior to his departure for Timaru, where he has received a similar appointment.

Lady Plunket, who, while her husband was Governor of New Zealand, did notable work for the Society for tho Protection of Women and Children, by helping in organising branches by delivering lectures hersolf on food value, infant care, etc., and alter whom the society's'free nurses, of which there are some forty in New Zealand, are named, was amongst those present at Dr. Trilby King's recent lecture fit London University,

A Tauranga Press Association telegram announces the death of the Rev. Canon Goodyear, at the age of sixtythroe. Deceased was superintending Maori missioner for the Bay o fPlenty, including Rotorua. Ho was the last of tho Maori missioners sent out by tho Church Missionary Society. He arrived at Wairoa, Hawka's Bay, in 1878; at Maketu in 1833, and at Tauranga in 1396j He loaves a widow, two sons, and seven daughters. He had been ailing for some weeks.