PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 23 February 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Premier left Auckland last night for Hastings. Mr. .1. B. Ifine, M.P. for Stratford, was in New Plymouth on Saturday.

Captain T. S. \Vc3ton, of the s.s, Orari, spent tin- week-end in New Plymouth.

The death occurred last week of Mr. James Morshead Symons, a very old settler of the Wellington district. Sir Ernest Rutherford and his wife are to visit New Zealand about August and spend two or three months in this Dominion.

On retiring from the managership of the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union at Palmerston, Mr. .lames Young was presented with an illuminated address. The name of Mr H. J. licswick is being freely mentioned as a probable successor to His Honor Mr .Justice Stringer as Crown Prosecutor in Christchurch.— l'ress wire.

Mr. T. B. Tiiivnkano, Premier of Tonga, left Auckland by the. Navua on Wednesday on his return home. He was accompanied by his private secretary, Mr. George Scott.

A Xapier Press wire reports that the consecration of the Rev. Canon William Walmsley Sedgwick, 8.A., aa Bishop of Waiapu, took place in St. John's Cathedral yesterday morning. The Primate (Bishop Nevill) conducted tho consecration service, and Bishon Julius, of Christeliurch, preached an impressive sermon. At the evening service the new Bishop wa3 installed in the ohief ieat in the Cathedral by the Vicar, Canon May*#

Mrs. Inga Maria Berkahn, an old resident in southern Hawke's Bay, passed away at Mnkotiikn on Monday morning, after a long and painful illness. Deceased, who had attained the age of 7ti years, accompanied by her husband, left Denmark forty years ago, ;and they took up their residence at Makaretu, being almost the first pioneers there. Six years ago they came to live in retirement at Makotuku. She was the mother of seventeen children, eight of whom survive her. She also leaves behind CO grandchildren and five great-grand children.

hx-Deteetive John O'Sullivnn died at his home l'addington (Sydney) last Week. He retired from the police service in March, IflflO, after a distinguished en reel', extending over 32 vears He joined the X.K.W. force in 1877, after having nerved in the New Zealand police for live years. In Sydney 20 J ears ago, when lawlessness was rampant, O .Sullivan, who was generally referred to as 'Mohn L," was well known to the crooks of the dav. In the short period of five weeks he had no less than 27 ruffians under arrest for parrotting, while in the space of another two months he gaoled no fewer than 22 men for terms extending from two to five years for various offences. of Mrs. James Lomax, of Wellington, one of the best-known of Wanganui's early settlers, occurred on Wednesday. The deceased lady, who was in her 84th year, had been on a visit to Rona Uav, near Wellington, where she was taken ill and sank, passing away as above. Mrs. Lomax, who was a native of Heading, near London, England, came out to Xew '/.onland in 1851. Two years later 'slip went to Wanganui, and had resided there evei' since, having, during her «1 years residence there, witnessed the growth of the town from a small frontier settlement, and taken her full share of the vicissitudes incidental to pioneer life. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband and a grown-up family of five sons and four daughters—Messrs James, Charles. William, Harry anil Percy Umax (the latter lieing- the only son resident in Wanganui) Cnthio (Palmerston Xorth), and Cottle (Christchurch), and Miss Umax (Wanganui), all of whom will have the sympathv of many friends in their bereavement."