PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 121, 15 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

(Mr. Walter Byrnes, M3f, *» Patea, ie at present Jywjj ssfioo&Vr ill at Hamilton.

l' It has now been definitely announced that Mr J. T. M. Hornsky will be the Liberal candidate for fti Walm/rapa sea' Vt uie next general election. Mr H. Car!yon, a Hawke's Bay rniholder, lias sold up his interests i» Now Zealand, and intends to leave shortly for England, where he will take up the ' duties of his brothers aid other nmle relatives, who havo gone to the front, in the management of the family estates. Ten of the Cariyons are on active service.

Mr William Wills, whoso death occurred at Mornington on Thursday, waa born in 1844, at Paisley (Scotland). Pour yeaip after his arrival in the Dominion, in 1870, he was appointed resident secretary for the Mutual Assurance Company of Victoria, and when that Society was merged with the National Life Office, he was appointed district manager lor Otago and Southland, but he retired from that position some years ago. lie took a rigorous interest in public affairs. Many will regret to learn of the death in Auckland on Friday morning ol Mr A. K. Hayward, editor of the New Zealand Farmer. Until recently, Mr Hayward's health had been excellent, but a fow weeks ago he was ordered to undervgo a serious operation, and his dcfttfi followed. The deceased, who was 47. years of age, arrived in New Zealand from England about thirty years ago, ultimately taking up land in the Poverty ' Bay ami Bay of Plenty district, ■Later, (ho founded the Bast Coast Guardian, at Gpotiki, and then became attached to the WaSkato Argus. Onco again' he moved, this 1908, he went to Auckland as editOT of •the New Zealand Farmer,

Mr. Clement Wragge, P.R.G.S., <tneoiiotime Queensland Government MeteoroMogist, and the forteUer of itfti* disastrous Australian droughts, now lives at Birkenhead, Auckland, where he has [transformed a scrub-covered steep into ['a luxuriant tropical garden. The Star I says that the celebrated weather prophet | lives in intimate communion with the weather portents. When a reporter visited him last week an odd-looking barometer was at his elbow in his queer, workßhoplike study; shelves of meteorological tomes lined the room. Outside was a hox-like structure which, to the uninitliated, might well have been a men' safe or a birdcage. It was, in fact, a miniature observatory, in which clock--work and electrical instruments registered tho vagaries of the atmosphere, or turned turtle, by an alarm arrangement, to tell the state of the temperature at a given time on nights.