PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Sir Albert Npiccr, president of the Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the hmpire, has arrived at Perth.

..;*" V' r 1 1 "" , , ,|,su "' of tl,L ' h ™A onto stall of the Bank „f \ cw Zealand, has been promoted to an inspectorship in the South Island.

v?! i "? d „ M r?; * ,k ' rt - »f Palmcrston North, left Wellington .vjesterday hy the Moaiia for Sydney, where they take passage by the Aorangi for Vancouver, eii route to San l'rancisco.

Mr. J. Eman Smith, who has' succeeded Colonel Gudgeon has been appointed a Judge of the Cook Islands Laml Tiller, Court, and also to be Chief Judge ther»01. °

the transfer is announced of Mr Muxwell, Palmcrston railway locomotive lorcnian, to New Plymouth, his place being taken by Mr. Shaw, of New Plymouth. •'

A cable message from Sydney announces the death of Mr. Samuel Hor dern principal of tl:.' i',.-.., „f Anthony Hordep and Sons, the great universal providers. His death was unexpected, though ] le had been ailing for some

flic following have been elected memoers of the Jersey Cattle Breeders' As sociation:—Messrs A. A. WVstnfle fPoh»"iC'ua), Alex. Monro (Yew Plymouth). 1 10s. Lux-ton (Waitara), Roland Hill (« langare,), E. d*. P.inns (Feilding), V J'.. Day (Tamaliere). Mrs. c'obbe (Fe.i'lrag).Dr. Wilson (I'almerstoi, North), and the manager of the Department of Agriculture's Riiakura .Experimental rami.

Mr. Richard Skinner, one of the oldest residents of Oncliiiiign, died at his residence on Monday night, aged S5 years Deceased, who belonged at" one trine to the .IMII Regiment, arrived in \e w Zealand in 184,7, ilTl( i s . uv considerable service in the Maori wars, especially with the struggle with ll„ m . Jleke.' Fifty .years ago he settled at OneJiunga. J|'e leaves n widow, four daughters, and five' sous, one of the latter being Mr. S. R; I Skinner, of the Onehun'ga Borough Council.

Captain W. P. Wall, formerly in command of the Permanent Force Auck- | land, died at Rotorua on Tuesday morning, at the early age of 32. The late aptiiin Hal] saw active service as a lieutenant in the Boer War, South Africa. „i 1000, being present at en«a"e' uients at Ilautnek, Vet River, and Zand River. Orange Free State; near Johannesburg and Pretoria, Transvaal; and at Rheiioster River, Bethlehem, and Wittebergen. Natal. He received the (Queen's "K'dal. On returning to New Zealand he was appointed to the New Zealand militia, and after being in command at I Auckland .was transferred to Christ-1 church about four years ago. He has not been on active service for the past in months, and about nine months ago wits retired on pension lls being physically unfit. Latterly he had lived at Devonport, Cambridge, and Rotorua.