PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 329, 3 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Archdeacon Cole was a passenger to Auckland last night by the Rarawa. Mr. Leslie Steele, of Fitzroy, leaves for Australia to-day on bus'iness in connection with the llotation of a new oil company here. -Messrs 11. Beaueiiamp and W. Milne have been re-appointed directors of the Bank of New Zealand, says a Press Association message. , It is officially announced that Mr. Herbert Gladstone has been created a viscount and Mr. Ivor Churchill Guest a baron,—Press cable. The Hon. -J. A. Millar (Minister oi Railways) is unable to accept an invitation to visit Taranaki (reports the Times) owing to pressure of work. Mr. E. M. Cliettle, manager of the Ilawera branch of the Bank of Australasia, has been promoted to the position of sub-inspector of the bank in one of ( the Australian States. ! The Rev. C. F. R. Harrison, vicar Ot i.Waiuku, has boen appointed vicar oi j,Waitara, and will be instituted early ;in April. The Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst, j the present vicar, goes to Whangarei. | Mr. A. J. Rossiter, Assistant Receiver j of Land' Revenue, Wellington, has been I promoted to the position of Receiver of j ,Lnnd Reumie at New Plymouth, and I will take up his duties from April Ist j next. Messrs G. Tiseh (Mayor of New Plymouth) anil ■!. B. Connett (chairman of the New Plymouth Harbor Board), returned on Tuesday night from Welling- | ton, where they have been on business I in connection with the Gill street extension. His Excellency the Governor arrived on his farewell visit to Napier last night. He will open the children's ward ,at the hospital to-day. and afterwards will be presented with a farewell address, and will be entertained by the Mayor at luncheon.—Press telegram. The funeral of the late Sergeant Appleyard took place yesterday at Te Henui cemetery. About 20 veterans, under Lieutenant J. C. Davies, were .present to pay their last tribute of respect to their late comrade. The bearers were Sergt. Duffin, Bugler Mynott, Sergt. Tunbridge, Capt. G. Cock, V.D., Privates J. O'Donnell and W. King. Tlie Rev. J. Guy conducted the ceremony at the graveside. An Auckland message states that Dr. Henrv Walker died on Tuesday, in his sixty-fourth year. Dr. Walker qualified ' at Glasgow in 1376, and came to New Zealand in 1881 in the ship May Queen. He took a keen interest in educational matters, being at the time of liis death a member of the Auckland City Schools ; CommbTce, and for some years he ' fought hard for the abolishment" of home I lessons in schools. He leaves two sons 1 and two daughters.

News is to hand from England of the death, on 2nd January, at Brightholme, Curzon Park, Chester, England, of the Bev. -Tames Lyall, the Scottish-Ameri-can evangelist, who visited these shores about the time of the Torrev-Alexander mission a few years ago. Mr. Lyall had been laboring in the United States during the. greater part of 1909, and had n breakdown in April, but, writing to Mr. Wilkinson, of Dunedin, in October of last year, said He was beginning work again in November. Colonel Collins, 1.5.0., formerly Secretary to the Treasury, took over hts new position on Tuesday as Controller and Auditor-General. As c. result of this appointment, he has to resign ft large number of his offices, comprising -membership of the Council of Defence, Advances to Settlers BoaTd, Advances to Workers Board, Public Service and Teachers' Superannuation Boards, and chairmanship of the Government Officers' Guarantee Board. Colonel Collins has until now been very actively connected with defence matters. He com- [ jileted twenty-live years as a commanding officer this week, having been appointed to eommarfd the Wellington City Rifles on Ist March, 1885. Ever since the formation of the Defence Council he has been a member, and he has been an executive officer of the New Zealand Rifie Association since 1579, having been chief executive officer since 1904. Mainly owing to his keen interest in the Trentham range, it has developed from twenty-four targets to one where eighty can be used simultaneously, and when the latest improvements' are completed will he second only to the famous Bisley. Unless some military position which cannot be described as "an office of profit or trust" is offered to the veteran volunteer, his long experience will be lost to defence, though lie will be able to continue his connection with the New Zealand Bisley.