PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Paris caible reports the death of General Gaileni. He will be accorded a State funeral and internment in the Invalides. A cable from London says that Dr. Grace's last surviving brother,, Alfred, is dead. Adjutant and Mrs. Hultquist, of Napier, have been appointed to succeed Adjutant and Mrs. Home in charge of the Salvation Army at New Plymouth. Mr. Duncan Rutherford, the wellknown Canterbury settlor, was in town yesterday, and was an interested spectator at the ironsand demonstration. An Adelaide cablegram reports that the Governor-General unveiled on behalf of the Citizens' Committee, in Victoria Square, a statue of Mr.C. C. Kingston, a former Premier. Captain R. W. Fisher, engineer to the Taranaki County Council, has received notification of his appointment to the Field Artillery quota of the 20th Reinforcements, and will leave for Featherßton camp at an early date. Mr. S. T. Talboys, tramway* engineer and manager at Wanganui, has been accepted as a member of the Flying Corps, and will go into camp at Auckland for three months' training in the art and mechanics of flying. In the Xew Zealand Army appointments, the Rev. J. A. Luxford has been appointed a chaplain of the first class and is retired, with permission to retain rank and wear uniform. ' Mr. A. X, Hempton, who has been acting manager of the Bank of Xew Zealand at Palmerston North, has been appointed manager of the bank at Ciisborne. Mr. Peter Walker, who was at Gabriel's Gully rush, has just died, at' the age of seventy-six years, in the Westland Hospital. He arrived in Xew Zealand in 1854 in the ship Storm Cloud, and was one ot the first lot at Gabricl's Gully. Later he tramped across tlie ranges when gold was found at Hokitika. He was for twenty-six year* < a member of the Hokitika Fi're Brigade, being captain for some time. Adjutant A. Greene, of the Salvation Army, the" well-known chaplain with the foreps, has been promoted from the fourth to the third class, and wiil now be known as chaplain-major, lie Uat present attached to the' New J&.aiaml base in England, and is as busy m during the sojourn in Egypt. ChaplainCaptain Walls is with the New Zoalanders jn France, and the latest from- Chap-lain-Captain Garner indicated that ho expected to he attached to the gift section at the base. There passed away on Saturday after. noon, at Lepperton, an old identity of early Waitara in the person of Mr. H. R. Florey. He arrived here in 1875, coming out by the Avalanche, and shortly after engaged in business at Waitara, ty which the continued for about thirty years. Mr. Florey retired from business some ten years "since arid'lived in Xew Plymouth until (ho beginning of this year, when failing health necessitated his removal to Lepperton. The deceased leaves a widow and one daugter, Mrs. W. M. Acjdand, Lepperton. The death ( .of Te Rangi Pai (Mrs. Howie) occurred at Opotiki on Saturday week. Te Rangi iPai, who was born in 1808, was a daughter of Colonel T. W. Porter, C.8., her mother boiug a Maori of high rank. She was educated at the Ladies' College, Napier, and subsequently embarked upon a musical career, meeting with considerable success. She appeared at the principal concert hails in England and sang before Queen Victoria, to whom she was also presented. She had not sung in public for some years past, and hail for some time ( been living on her property at Manga* roa. Referring to the death of Mr. Wm. Hooper, of Tokaoroa, the Hawera Star's correspondent says the late Mr. Hooper was married to a daughter of Mrs. W. ,T. Batten, Inaha, and on the sub-divi-sion of largo farms here, bought a dairy farm near our school. For many years he represented Tokaora as a director on the Hawera Co-op Dairy Co., and took > part ( in all local shows iii Hawera and Nornianby, also local l sehool matters, and was the leading spirit here in Anglican Church matters. He was ever ready to render assistance at all times „ to his neighbors, and by his goodness and obliging manner won the esteem of all. He leaves a widow and two daughters to mourn their loss. At the Methodist service on Sunday, the Rev. E. 0. Blamires referred to the sad event, remarking that the district has suffered an irreparable loss by the early death of Mr. Hooper, whom he had found a true Christian and a man of sterling worth. The School Committee granted _ a whole holiday to the children out ot respect to one who had done so uiudl for the school and the children's weU, fare. '