PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable announces the death of Mrs. Dion Boucieault. Major E. P. Cox, of Hawera, visited New Plymouth yesterday. He returns to Hawera to-day. A London message reports the death of Lord Clanmorris, the fifth Baron, a great Irish land-owner. Frivato Stephens, of the Australian forces, son of Mr. Stephens, Hawera, is reported wounded. Mr, G. K. Buckley, of Dunedin, has i been appointed manager of the Regal Boot and Shoe Company, New Ply-! mouth. Word has been received that CaptainChaplain 0. GVCruickshank, who is well known in the Taranaki district, li:ia completely recovered from the wound he recently received in action. A recent Militnj-y Gazette notifies that Captain A. K Bydci, of the New Plymouth Boys' High School Senior Cadets, has been -successful in completing the examination for the commission of major. Mr. 0 .1. Herrick, of Vogc'tnwn, who was seriously injured in a motor-cycle accident at Fitzroy on TuVsday morning, and was admitted to the hospital in an unconscious condition, lias recovered consciousness. At a social gathering at Ararata hist Friday, Sister McGregor, who recently rt turned to New Zealand by the Marama,' and is shortly going on' duty at Trentham, wa* entertained, and presented, with a leather attache case, as a token of the settlers' goodwill. After 50 years' residence in New Zealand Mrs. Kaehel A. Chaplin, of Mnrdock Road, Grey Lynn, passed away last week, at the ripe age of fl.'l years. Mrs Chaplin was born and brought up in London within the sound of Bow Bells, and came to New Zealand with her husband, the late Thomas Chaplin, by the. ship Mermaid, arriving in Auckland on November 20, 1800. . Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Cooper, of Leslie Avenue, Morningside, have just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. They were married at St. Bride's Church, Liverpool, on November 1. ISGB and came to New Zealand wit', a family of six children in the steamer Norfolk in 1881, Two move children were born in New Zealand. Mr. F. K. de Castro, chief clerk of the Kdueatidn Department, has been appointed Secretary for Education in succession to Sir Edward Gibbes, whose place he has been filling temporarily. The new secretary has been connected with the Public Service since 187-I—for the first four years with the Treasury, and since 187S with the Education Department, when it first came into existence.

Dr. A, W. Averill, Bishop of Auckland, arrived in Xew Plymouth by tho Rarawa yesterday. He is the guest of Mrs. Evans. Dr. Averill will take charge of St. Mary's parish for three weeks, during the absence of the Rev. A. 11. Colvile. During his stay in the district he will visit Stratford, Inglewood, Waitara, Lepperton, TJrenui, Uruti, Okato, Rahotu, and Fitzroy. On November 20 Dr.' Averill will conduct a confirmation service" at St. Mary's Church.

The Rev. Dr. Watkin has (says the Melbourne Argus) arrived in Australia from New Zealand in poor health, after having overtaxed himself by too much public speaking. Dr. Watkin, who is now over eighty years of age, is one of the best known of the ministers of the Methodist Church who were in the forefront of effort twenty years ago, and have still kept in touch with the Church's affairs, although in comparative retirement. The Rev. A. M'Callum, in announcing Dr. Watkin's illness, stated that his medical adviser said it was probable the invalided clergyman would never be able to take part in affairs with his former energy.