PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Constable Fleming, of the Wellington wharf police, has been transferred to Hawera. and Constable Palmer, Wellington central, comes to New Plymouth.

A vote of sympathy with the relatives of the lalte Mr. McKee, until recently chairman of the Omata Dairy Co., Ltd., was passed at the company’s annual meeting on Saturday. The death is reported by the Star of Mrs. Mace, 1 wife of Mr. Louis Mace, farmer, Rama Road, Kaupokonui, after' a serious illness. There are besides her husband four litltle children left. A London cable announces the de ith of Mr. W. L. Ashmead Bartlett-Bur-dett-Courts, M.P., since 1885 for Westminster. He was born in the United States in 1851. In 1881 he married the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, whose name he assumed.

Mr. A. F. Mowlem, of Dunedin, who is to act as relieving Magistrate in Taranaki, vice Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, appointed Chief Jusltice at Samoa, arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday night. Mr. Orr Walker leaves New Plymouth for Auckland by Wednesday’s express and expects to sail from New Zealand about August 20.

A well-known coastal resident in the person of Mrs. T. Julian, of Warea, died at her daughter’s residence, Okaiawa, recently, after a long and painful illness. The late Mrs. Julian, who was a daughter of the late Mr. R. Foreman, of Tataraimaka, was born at Tataraimaka in 1856, and was married in 1875. She is survived by her husband and a family of six children and 48 grandchildren. There are five sons—Messrs. W. H. (Okakeho), T. R. (Toko), P. (Riverlea), G. E. and R. (Warea) —and one daughter —Mrs. W. B. Clarke (Okaiawa). Another son died during the epidemic. There are two brothers surviving, Messrs. William Foreman (Inaha) and Henry Foreman (Wellington), a third brother, George Foreman, having predeceased her by a'week. The Rev. John Craig, minister of Kurow Presbyterian Church, North Otago, has accepted a position in con nection with the Taranaki Education Board as head teacher at the Tahora schooL Mr. Craig received his education at Otago University, Knox College, Dunedin, Ormond College, within Melbourne University, and St. Andrew’s College, within Sydney University. In dealing with Mr. Craig’s resignation on July 26, the Oamaru Presbytery expressed their very high appreciation of Mr. Craig and his work. The Rev. P. C. Rennie said the presbytery was under I a deep debt of gratitude for the able manner in which Mr. Craig had carried on the work of the church ait Kurow during an abnormal period and Mr. J. B. Taylor said he knew Kurow well, and also knew the noble work Mr. Craig had done there. Other members spoke in ( a similar strain. Mr. Craig and family leave Otago for the north on August 1.