PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 26, 25 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. G. Tisch was yesterday removed to the New Plymouth public hospital. Mr. F. P. Sluir, of tlie proprietary ol tJie Poverty Bay Herald, was in N'ew Plymouth yesterday. A Sydney cablegram reports that Lord Dudley has postponed his departure for England owing to the illness of Captain. Rome, his military secretary. Mr. B. C. O'Dowda, who has been connected with the oil industry of Taranaki for a number of years, has received an appointment with the N'ew Zeaiaml Oilfields, Ltd. Mr. C. E. Bellringcr yesterday received cabled advice from Mr. C. Carter, chairman of directors of the Taranaki Petroleum Company, announcing his arrival in London.

A Wellington wire states.that Mr. A. R. Hislop, secretary to the Wellington district of the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers since 1892, has resigned owing to business affairs claiming his time and attention.

Mr. W. Chas. Nixon, who lias been ft member of the directorate of the New Plymouth Tiheatre Royal Company, Ltd., has resigned hia seat, owing to the recent legislation making it illegal for him to hold the position and trade with the company. An inmate of the Old People's Home, Mr. James Byrne, died 011 Sunday at tho age of 72 years. He was one of the l>est known of the old men. principally on account of the work whicli he voluntarily undertook and so successfully carried out in connection with the ornamental position of the hospital grounds near tMb entrance. The interment takes place todifjt the funeral leaving the Roman Catholic Church at 2.30 this afternoon.

Mr. E. B. Bullock, who has been promoted from the local branch of Sargood, Son, and Ewen to the Auckland office, was, before he made his departure lust evening, made the recipient of presentations from his fellow workers (a goldinscribed sovereign case) and also from the boarders of Olmtsworth House (a leather writing ease). Each presentation was accompanied by felicitous references to the many good qualities of Mr. Bullock.

■Mr. Richard William Lecher, an old West Coaster, died last week at Black's Point, aged 88 years. He was a native of Cornwall, England, and arrived in Adelaide when quite a youth. After residing in South Australia for some time, hearing of the gold find in Sun Francisco, he proceeded there, but returned to Victoria during the gold fever in 1852, where he kept the Seven Stars Hotel in Carlton. In 1862 hie arrived in New Zealand and went right through the Otogo goldfields. In 1865 he came to the West Coast to Try Again Terrace. He then returned' to Grevmouth and built the Trafalgar Hotel, becoming the licensee tor some time. In 1870 he went to Black's Point, and was one of the principal prospectors of the old Independent mine. It will be remembered (says the (rreymoutJl Star) that one of his sons, Richard, was burnt to death in 1882 in tho fire which destroyed Dawson's Hotel, Reefton, owing to his returning to t'he hotel to assist another boarder who had returned to get his valuables, both perishing in the fire.