PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12922, 29 July 1905, Page 7

PERSONAL.

The Feilding Siar records tlie death of Mrs James Pask, of Makino, which occurred on Sunday last. Mrs James Lepine is a daughter of the deceased, ,who was one of the pioneers of ' the =Feilding district, having lcsided there ior some thirty years. „ The many friends ' of. Mr J. Hunter hStrauchon, son of a former Comof Crown Lands nu'l Chtti Surveyor of Taranaki, will be glad to Uean that -he successfully passed his fmal examination in dental surgery recently, and is now practising his profession at the Lower Hutt. Mr Strauchon attended the Central and High Schools. At St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, * Wellington, on Tuesday, Mr H. Temple Atkinson, youngest son of the late Sir Harry "Atkinson, was married to Miss M. F. Waldegrave, oldest daughter of Mr F. Waldegrave, Under-Sec-retary for Justice. .A London correspondent says that Mr Brownlow Horrocks is making satisfactory progress with his aulpmaiic machine, a full-sized model of which Jie has at work. Mr Stanislaus J. Moran, LL.8.l who was admitted as a barrister and solicitor at Wellington on Tuesday, joins the Stratford office of Messrs MaTone, McVeagh and Anderson. During the Aveek, the Very Rev. Dean McKenna wasj in honor of his feast day, entertaine&.-by; the pupils of the Convent Schools, -and made the recipient of two presents. t The ' Herald staff' on Friday night assembled "round the stone" to- bid 'farewell to Mr F. W. McComish, who for 'twelve or thirteen years has acted as foreman, and who leaves to take Up a position, on . one of th» Wellington papers. Mr W. J. Perm, editor, on behalf of the staff presented Mr iMcCornish with a travelling bag and brushes, and in doing so referred to the excellent way in ,which t Mr .McCornish had always carried out Ms duties. .#nd >his loyalty to tha--pap«r. He expressed the hope that the. recipient would be successful in his - future career. Mr McComish, in returning thanks, paid a compliment to 1 the staff, _ and referred, to the pleasant time he had spent in the Herald Office. He leaves for .Wellington on Monday.