PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13418, 16 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Harry Atmoro, M.V. for Nelson who has been addressing meetings m the Hawke's Bay districts, on receiving official intimation from the Prime Minister on Friday of«his visit to Nelson, cancelled other, engagements, and returned by the Arahura yosterday morniug. Mr Atmore will return to Wellington on Wednesday in t.rder to addre&s a poliiieal meeting in the Town Hall on Tnxirc-day evening.

Dr.-Howard, la to of Dunedin, but fopthe past few months resident in Nelson, has been appointed to take charge of the Home lor Defectives .at ltiehmpnci, -Mr Henry" Buttle having retired after many years' efficient service.

The many friends of the Rev. J. M. Adcock will .bo grieved to hear of .'us death in the Old Country, in the la sab week in January. Mr Adcock was rector of Willesborough, Kent. He had spent a Christmas holiday in Switzerland, and while there contracted typhoid, which carried him off. He was a great amateur athlete. He had played football.for. the Aston Villa club, ami cricket for Warwickshire. He formerly lived at JBSishopdale; then locum teneus at JJrightwater after Archdeacon Mulei'e elevation to the Bishopric. He then : became vicar of Motueka. For years* he was rector of Waimate, Canterbiiry. i Several years ago he- was or-" dered to the South of England on a«v cquiit of his wife's poor health. B<? will long be remembered by these whohad tho privilege of knowing him for the earnest, manly ring of his sermons, and for hi® bright, happy, Christian life.

The death of Mr Daniel Byford, an old resident of the district, occurred at his residence in Park Terrace, Blenheim, on Friday morning (says the "Express"). The deceased, who was 82 years of age, was bora in England, and arrived in~Nelson in the ship Chili in 1876. -Shortly afterwards he migrate<l to the Wairau, and lived there until his demise. He leaves a widow, four children —Mrs H. W. Townsend, A., W., and T. D. Byford, all residents of Blenheim—and ten grandchildren. Mr and Mrs Byford's diamond wedding was to have boon celebrated in a short time.

We learn that Dr. Mackay, 'who ha a reached, the age limit, is retiring, ami his successor will be Dr.- Jeffreys, now of Seacliff Mental Hospital.

The following is an extract from "Tim Guardian (London) of January 2: '"A peculiarly interesting circumstance is mentioned in the annual ioport of St. Mark's Parish Church, of K«nningtou. Dr. -Darlington, tho vicar, states that, at present kis onJy. colleague at the church is tho Rev.. Hoani Parata, who went to him last Holy Week. 'Mr Parata,' he add®, 'is' iustly proud of the fact that ho belongs to tke great Maori race, and in July last be was* married at St. Mark's to Miss Gowie,, a New Zealand lady. My, colleague is a^anm of such unique ex : poriences-, and great capabilities, that I feel we cannot hope to keep him hero for long, before some independent sphere of work Is offered to him.

Mr D. A. Ewen, of the directorate of Messrs Sargood, Son. and Ewen, . Ltd., accompanied by Mrs Ewen, arrived in Nelson yesterday by motor car from tile West Coast, -Mr and Mrs Ewen-wiU spend a few days in this district and then proceed to Blenheim.

At a meeting of delegates from different parts of the electorate held aj Stratford on Friday night, says a ?res* Association telegram, Mr W. H. Hawkins. ex-M.P., was unanimously selected as the Progressive Liberal Party's candidate at the coming election.

The Trinity College of Music examiner m 1914 for New Zealand will bo Mr Henry St. George, says a London Press Association cable.

Lord Rochdale is a passengers for New Zealand by the Maimgamii, say* a Sydney Press Association cable.

A Svtlnev Press- Association cable states that" Mr Braham, a London journalist, succeeds Dr. F. W. Ward m tho editorship of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph."