PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 26 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the Governor, Lord Islington, accompanied by Captain Shannon, A.D.C., arrived by the mail train, last evening. His Excellency was met ut the station by His Worship the Mayor (Mr. U. Tiscu), Mr. H. Okey, M.P., and members of the Jioiough Council, and was driven to the White Hart Hotel.

Sir Joseph Ward will speak at Stratford to-night. He will motor /to Kaponga to-morrow in the morning, and thence proceed to Inglewood, coming on to New Plymouth later, and reaching here at about five o'clock. la the evening he delivers a political address in the Theatre Royal. The death occurred at Stratford yesterday of Mr. J. K. Ferguson, who for many years carried on business as a tailor.

Constable Liston, of New Plymouth, is at present doing relieving duty at; Inglewood, taking the place of Constable Fitzgibbon, who is away on holiday leave.

Mr. F. W. Whitehead, who has been in business in Inglewood during the past ten years, left by last night's mail train en route for Auckland, where he intends to reside.

Mr. John T. Campbell, headmaster of the Rahotu School, who lias been spending his vacation in the Hawke's Bay and Manawatti districts, returned by the mail train last evening. Mr. J. E. Schwitzer, who was recently, appointed chief engineer of the Can-adian-Pacific Railway, consequent on his brilliant engineering achievements for the company, has died at Montreal of pneumonia.

The Commandant of the Forces (Major-Gcncral Godley, C.8.), accompanied by his staff-officer, Lieut.-Colonel Burnett-Smith, D.5.0., left for the south last night on a visit of inspection—Press Association.

Mr. Parker M'Kinley, 8.A., of Bcnhar, who is a member of the Otago Education board, has decided to stand for rJruce in the Liberal interest against all comers. This seat has been a stronghold for Mr. James Allen for many years. At a meeting of the Dunedin City Council last night, Jlr. Lcwin, of Lyttelton, was appointed Town* Clerk, in succession to Mr. B. W. Richards. There were 38 applicants for the, position, which carries a salary of £OOO per annum.—Press Association.

Sir William Hall-Jones presided at the banquet given to Mr. Grahanle-White, the airman, by the Aerial League of the British Empire recently, when Lord. Roberts presented Mr. White with the gold medal of the League, in recognition of his having won the Gordon-Bennett international trophy. 'Mr. T. Humphries has been elected president of the Surveyors' Institute. Other officers elected yesterday at Dunedin are: Vice-president, Mr. H. 0. Wylde, of Palmerston North; treasurer, Mr. M. C. Smith, of Wellington; and council, Messrs. Jas. Fulton, Wellington, and F. Ledger, of Nelson. ■ At a meeting of the New Zealand University Senate at Christchurch on Tuesday, Mr. Barclay "Hector was appointed registrar in succession to Mr. J. W. Joynt, who resigned last year. Mr. Hector, who is a son of the late Sir James Hector, has been lately acting a» acting-registrar, and formerly held the position of assistant registrar.

Mr. T. Hobson, who has been in the employ of Messrs. H. Brown and C, timber merchants, as joiner and machinist for 17 years, was the recipient of a case of pipes from his fellow employees yesterday morning on the occasion of hi& severing his connection with the Arm tofill a similar posit.inc « Auckland. Mr. James Marshall Jfcmtan) made the presentation; acknowledged. After a year's absence from the Dominion, Mr. Justice Denniston and Mrs. Denniston, who have been Home on :i health-recruiting tour, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Moeraki, says a Wellington message. Miss Denniston returned to New Zealand about a fortnight ago. His Honor, who leaves for Christchurch in a couple of" days, and opens the Tiraaru session next Wednesday, expressed himself as feeling in excellent health. Mrs. Denniston, too, is very well. Mr. Cathcart Wnson, erstwhile of New Zealand, who is n giant Radical, and finds consolation in knitting, has ' been returned unopposed for the most isolated constituency in the United ■KingdomOrkney anl Shetland (writes a London correspondent). These islands are sometimes inaccessible for weeks together owing to stormy weather. They always poll last, if there is a contest, the election occupying two days, and on at least one occasion Parliament has assembled without waiting for the result from tliis outpost.

Veteran John Wood, late of H.M. 70th Regiment, passed awny at the An«klawt Hospital on January 30, at the age of 73 years. The late Mr. Wood, who went through the Indian Mutiny wkh his regiment, had been for a considerable, time a resident of the Veterans' Home, Three Kings, ftnd was very popular among his comrades. Some time ago he was stricken with paralysis, which necessitated his removal to the hospital, and he had never sufficiently recovered in health to return to the Home. Tlw deceased veteran was a widower, two married daughters surviving him, one living at Coromandcl and the other at Puni.

Referring to Mr. George Hector Rolloston, whose death was reported from Wellington last week, the Lyttelton Times says he has some claims to be remembered by the people of New Zealand hjkiH from the fact that he was the son of a distinguished father to whom the Dominion owes more than it has yet adequately acknowledged. During the dark days" in South Africa a decade ago, when the gravity of the struggle for supremacy had been fully realised, Mr. Rolleston was among the 'eager volunteers for active service, and after the war, in which he won fresh honors for the name he bore, be took up magisterial duties at berg, in the Transvaal, to assist in restoring order and prosperity to the distracted and sadly impoverished country. Her<> he did admirable work for a number of years. His conscientious conception of tho high responsibilities of 'his office, his earnestness and tact, speedily won for him the commence of all sections of the community, and both the Boers and tho British came to regard him as a valued friend. It was his admirable record as a leader and as a magistrate that led to his appointment ns British Trade Commissioner in this country, and introduced him to a still wider field of usefulness. It is scarcely two years ago that he returned to Xew Zealand to devote himself to improving the trade relations between this Dominion and the Mother Country,, but during his brief sojourn here he displayed the same qualities as secured him so much personal popularity and public appreciation in South Afrioa. Only those who came immediately in contact with his work know how well it was done and how much it meant to both countries, hut there are hundreds of others who will deplore the removal from our social and commercial life of ft cultured, genial gentleman who labored unceasingly to do» ■jtfa duty to t'ue bes.t Qf his ability