PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 305, 17 May 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. Wyllie, a Papatoetoo patriarch, celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday last week. A Sydney cablegram in-day r.inon-wj, the death of the Rev. Pr. Keating. Hector of Saint Ignalii:.; Co!!i'g.>. Mr. Melville McXjiugliteii. tlie head 0 f Scotland Yard, says a London cablegram, is retiriii';; on aiTount. of ill-health, A Melbourne cablegram reports that the Reverend W. Alexander Ims been elected Modern Lor oi the 'Presbyterian Assembly. The death is announced at Nurse Lucas's private hospital, Wellington, of Mr. R. Grylls. Deceased has a sister (Mrs. Grant) residing in Elthain. | lt is officially announced that Lord Grey will accompany the Kin? and Queen to Berlin. The party will leave on Monday and be away for about ten days. Mr. J. Sommerville, of the local railway locomotive staff, and a prominent member of the New Plymouth Operatic Society, has received notice of transfer to Woodville. The marriage of Miss Magaret lima I (Birdie) Clarke to Mr. J. Excell. postj master at Tuakau, Auckland, >s ani nounced to take place early in June at I St. Joseph's Church. A cablegram from New York states that the Cumberland, with Prince Albert aboard, has arrived at Halifax. She will visit Sydney and Newfoundland before returning to England. According to a Press Association cablegram from London, Mr. Curtis Bennett, the Bow Street magistrate, who was recently the victim of a suffragette bomb outrage, has been knighted. The Captain Wilson mentioned in f,he interesting account of the siege of Pipiriki, published in our last Saturday's issue, is identical with the Captain Wilson, of Lower Carrington road, who is. one of the few surviving officers who took part in that memorable struggle. Captain Wilson also saw service in the fighting that subsequently took place on the East Coast. Additional results of the elections for the Public Service Appeal Board are as follows:—Representing the Telegraph branch of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. Alexander Mill (returned unopposed); two members to represent the general officers of the departments, Messrs. A. Marryatt and P. J. Mouatt. The official figures are: A. Marryat 1469, F. J. Mouat 1380, A. H. Holmes 1243, H. H. Ostler 1070, W. T. Morpeth 511, J. J. L. Burke 472, H. Roberts 443, J. H . O'Donnell 413, R. W. S. Ballantyne 106,' ' I informal 17. 1 j Archbishop O'Shea, who has been ap- . | pointed coadjutor to the Archbishop of i j Wellington, with right of succession, had for many years occupied the position of ! chaplain of St. Patrick's College, only re- , linquishiiig the position owing to the ; volume of work which he had to do on I being appointed Vicar-General of the ( Wellington areh-diocesc. His Grace, as t chairman of the Wellington Catholic Education Board, which was inaugurated , last year, was the recipient of a con- . gratulatory message from his colleagues on the Board on his new appointment. The Dominion Executive of the New Zea- \ land Catholic Federation also conveyed B to his Grave its heartiest congratulag tions. Archbishop O'Shea was chairman of the provisional committee which drafted the Constitution which had been 1 adopted throughout New Zealand. He t has proved himself a good organiser, and 1 in him Catholic societies and organisations have a great champion, and his an- » pointment is looked upon as a great factor for their advancement in the fu--1 tun >- ~',,..-.."„.:.; i:'in'i Captain John Gibb, the commodore of s the Union Steamship Company's e ™.'}, no } 7 in command of R.M.S. Niagara, i will relinquish the command of the 13,500 ton liner on her return to Svdivev from g Vancouver, with the object'of retiring r from the sea. Captain Gibb has a splend did record of service in the Union Com- , I pany, successfully commanding from ' J time to time the finest boats of the fleet. He was specially commissioned bv the •• directors to proceed to Scotland to bring • out the new Niagara, and it is regarded n as a crowning finish to his fine record that t. he commanded this big liner on her '■- maiden run across the Pacific. His gen- '■ ml disposition has made him extremely 0 popular both afloat and ashore, and in n settling down he carries the best wishes c of a large circle of friends not only in 0 the Commonwealth but on the Pacific >, coast. Captain Gibb will be succeeded 1 on the Niagara by Captain H. A. G. Mor- '- risby, now on R.M.S. Makura on the Can- " ndmn run. Captain J. D. S. Phillips, d from the R.M.S. Zealandia, will take e command of the Makura.