PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Colonel Pringle," of Wellington, ar. rived in New Plymouth last night. •; A London cablegram say's that Mr. P. F. Warner, the cricketer, is seriously ill. . ' . '

Sir Robert Stout and Lady Stout, wli» have been visiting New Plymouth, rej turn to Wellington by the mail-'trail this morning. > Mr. C. H. Burton, Chief Postmaster at New Plymouth, is away on his annual •leave. Mr. S. Inder, Inspector of Fort Offices, Wellington, is the loc,um tcnoat, The following transfers and promo■ tions in the staff of tho Bank of N«w Zealand are announced:—Mr. F. A, Macbean, visiting officer,-to be mauager at Gore; Mr. W. Robson, uianagaf fit Gore, to be manager at JnvarcarjUl; Mr. A, Smith, manager at Invfrcaigill, to be manager at Wellington; Mr, A. P. Green, manager at Wellluglou, to be an inspector.

Mr. Arthur Osborne Gibbcs, accountant to the Treasury, passed away \t/A week, at the age of fifty-wen years. Deceased, wha had been jn fll-health for some time, was born at Whangarel *£<» was a brother of Sir Edward Gibbja, Secretary for Education. He had •uearty j completed forty years' service. In the earlier days of Wellington tfce latc Mr. Gibbes" occupied a leading position in the athletic world. Mr. Edward Cookson, an old AshVuiton identity, died on Wednesday bvV< The deceased, who was 77 yea,r« of came to New Zealand 56 years ago i. the ship Roman Emperor, and,' »fjje:' living in Chritstchurch for a few yei*'* he went to Ashburton,, where he H<J residod for 40 years. Mr. Cookson w*. a member of the committee of the A»k> burton A. and P. Association, and wn« a noted judge of light horses, and had acted as judge of numerous nflrteultural shows in various parts of th« JBaawnion.. News was received in Chriatchurcij last week of the death, in action i« Flanders, on November 17, of Sergeant Major Gerald Weston, well known throughout New Zealand as mtabev of the Defence staff. Sergeant-Majoi-Weston inade many attempts *o £"t -J* the front, but his service* being V4i«. able to the authorities for training j/»i. poses, they were reluctant to Jet him g». Finally, he managed to get. away, ai4 arrived in England in August, and' \m mediately joined the. Royal Wait KeW Regiment. The deceased w*» lu *eti>"# sevvieo in the w«f.; 4» ,W*% and the Philippines. He joined tjl.« WW !Zealand Staff in 1913.- •■ -• '.-:•'

The wedding of lieutenant Harold ,*>■**' Rawlins and 'Miss Elly de Jong, <jf A.&" aterdam, is one 'of the romance* •< ■•' -me war (says ti»e Djftily Mall). Ljeot, J****. lins, who was once an officer intbeSnv*j, was in the 'United Stages wlw*,, w*,r broke out','and 'ho immediately Wff«re4 his servicee to the British Consul H Seattle. Returning to England, h* got a commission in the Royal Naval Oivu sion, and served at Antwerp .during the siege. The British foreea' and his battalion entered Datei-Wiv tory, where Lieutenant RawJJns W>* found himself interned. Wfem i# ■&* military hospital «t Amateriaw iW a <* under the care of .Dr. do Jssg, tfhy of the hospital. Miss <fe Jong rjtWW the hospital from time to sitn«,. *U' there she met her future l»n«bam!. The Ven. Archdeacon Willi* «i:ci -. Cambridge on Thursday last. The •'■■ ceased gentleman, who was in .hii'T'hti year, was a son' of the Rev. JfrS* Will;*, some time rector of liilpeacon, *gd prebendary at St. Mary's Cathedravfclmefick, Ireland. He arrived in New Zetland 50 years ago in company With th« late Archdeacon Walsh, and together they entered upon farming pursues is the Bay of Islands. While tliew, ,iu 1872, the late Bishop Cowie met thenr, and induced them to enter St. John's College to study for the ministry. Afyir' ordination, Archdeacon Willis was appointed curate of St. Sepulchred, under the late Archdeacon Dudley, hut ithfres years later—in January, iS!B—tit>' iteeived the appointment' of vicar to -St Andrew's, Cambridge, which post he filled moat worthily np to about three yi»»» ago, since when he lived at Cambryjs privately with hisvw.ife and family; The death occurred in Santa Rosa, California, on December 31st last, of a well-known Taranaki man, Mr, Nicholas Julian R'usden. He waii.»'M>» of the late Thomas Rusden, «to«« mason, who caiuc» to New Plymouth with his wife ami threo children with the Julian faniib/ in the ship Blenheim, landing in Ne\V Plymouth in Muri'o. 1842. Ho was in the armed coustabulnry in Taranaki, and late,r was a bombardier in the Permanent Artillery both at Auckland and Wellington, where he wa» a well-known drill instructor in the Naval Artillery. He arrived in Sa« Krancisco a fortnight before the greaj earthquake. For'the past four ycur» he had been in failing health, owing t» heart troubles and pneumonia siijxrveiling or, e. ?o!d contr«c , '"3 aft"'" ing the Exposition, he succumbed. !.' leaves a widow in Sanln flow. (v '' brother, Mr. ,R. KnsiW (Aii;-U'-ivl. t.lnvo si,tcr.-. Mesd.imos T!. i-nngi:!*! (Wcstnwn), X. .Inckson (SyiUu--K ait S, Hill (Wellington),