PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 268, 4 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. Inder, postmaster nt Masberton, who has been transferred to Christchurch, leaves on Friday. At a meeting o3f the Board of Directors of the Bank of New> Zealand yesterday Mr. Harold Befiuchamp was elected chairman. It is understood that Mr. Norman Burton, sub-editor of the Dominion, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Keane a& associate-editor of that y v, v j Mrs. Smith, wife of Mr. S'. G. Smith, of the Railway- Department, died early yesterday "morning. Much sympathy is felt for her husband, who is j left with three young children. Mrs, Smith, who was only 35 years old, wa» ; a daughter of Mr. Herbert,' of Kent Road, who saw service with the Royal Engineers and was a well-known resident here. Many Chancellors of the Exchequer besides Mr. Lloyd George have occupied that office before reaching fifty. Addington and Pitt were both under fifty. Robinson was only fortv-fivc at the end! of his term, while Goulburn was fortysix. Peel relinquished this office at forty-seven, and Baring at forty-five- ' When Disraeli had his first short experience in 15.)2 he was forty-eight, and Mr. Gladstone was only fortv-three at thetime of his first Budget! Ward Hunt went out at the same age, and the present Lord St. Aldwyn completed bisfirst term at forty-nine, and Lord Randolph Churchill went, out at forty-two. On the whole, youth has reigned at theTreasury, though Canning, Lowe, Stafford Northcote. Sir William Harcourt, Childers and Ritchie had all passed fifty when they went there. The old boys of the Auckland Grammar School and his many friends will ; receive with deep regret the announce- , ment of the death of "Sir. C. F. Bourne,.)' which took place on Saturday after-; noon (says the Auckland ''Herald"). The deceased was a son of the late Sir. Stephen Bourne, who was for many years a leading official in Jamaica, and was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, London. He entered St. John's College, Oxford, with a scholarship from his school, and subsequently became an exhibitioner of his college, graduating; with classical honours in 1877. On ' leaving Oxford he was appointed to a mastership at Manchester 'Grammar School, and it was as a member of the staff of that great school that he was selected to fill the headmastership of Auckland Grammar School, in succession to Mr. Farquhar Macrae. He arrived in Auckland with Mrs. Bourne in January, 1888, and left in May, 1893, to assume the headmastership of Chrjst's College, at Christchurch, which he held till the end of the year 1003. He "undertook the duties of the chair of classics at Auckland University College, Tamaki. during the years 1010 and 19n, N when failing health compelled him to resign his position. Mr. Bourne was a scholar of great tact and abilitv, and an educationalist of the first rank. He was mainly responsible for the first meeting of the conference of headmasters of New Zealand secondary schools."' 1 ITe was predeceased liv his' eldest son,, who was a member. the ninth contingent. and was killed ill a railway •" neeifHrt in South Africa, on his .way to' 'the front.