PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 58, 17 June 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

•Mr. T. Rapley, the liberal party's organiser, will be in New Plymouth to-day. Mr. S. Hill and family leave New Plymouth for Wellington at the end of the month. A London cable states that one Collins, a New Zealander, has been awarded a cricket blue at Cambridge. Miss Alice Rimmer, who is to sing at the Liedertafel concert next Wednesday, will arrive from Auckland this morning. Mrs. Sidgwick is retiring from the principalship of the Newham College in England, and Miss Stephen, the viceprincipal, succeeds iher.—feable item. Mr. A. Grant has taken over the land and estate agency business lately carried on by Mr. C. E. Major at Hawera. Mr. Major is now in business in Auckland. Mr. E. V. Hall, of the sub-editorial staff of The Dominion, has been appointed chief reporter of the New Zealand Herald, vice Mr. J. Y. Bireh, who na» been appointed press agent to Mr. Geo. Willoughby, the well-known uciormanager.

-Miss M. I. Fraser, who has been lady principal of the Warijganui Girls' College for the past seventeen years, has resigned her position, her resignation to take effect at the end of the year. . The Boayl of Governors last evening accepted her resignation with great regret.Press Association wire.

Mr. William Wright, senr., died at Kaiapoi on Friday, at the age of !)3. Deceived (says the Christchureh Press) wax one of our best-known veterans. having served in the British Auxiliary Legion raised by General Sir de Lacy Evans to defend Queen Isabella 11. of •Spain against the troops of Don Carlos. He received the 'baptism of fire under Hernani at the heights of Santa Barbara, oft' St. Sebastian, and was present at all of the important battles throughout the war. That the campaign was a vigorous one, may be judged from the fret that fully one-third of the men won- killed in active fighting. In 1837 he enlisted in the H.E.LS. service, and joined their headquarters at Chatham, afterwards being sent with a detachment to the East India Company's College at Addiscombe, where he remained for twelve years. He obtained his discharge to come to N«w Zealand on 21st - December, 1851. For some time the late Mr. Wright was associated with the volunteer movement at Kaiapoi, where his ripe experience was of great value..