PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13843, 24 December 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Tt is considered unlikely that a temporary judge wil) bo appointed during the absence of tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Sout) from tho Dominion next year. ' Mr. W. G. White, of Ilawora, is staying in Now Plymouth for a few (lavs.

Miss Isabel Morico, who. during, a quarter of a century's residence in tho Gisborno district, has interested herself in various humane and Christian movements died at Gi.sborno last week. Tho late Mi-:s Morico was horn at Benares, India, in IS4O, and was the oldest daughter of fcho late Dr. James Morico, a medical officer in attendance on the East India. Company's, troops. > A* jan early ago Miss Morico accompanied her parents to Scotland, whore her father died. On tho death of the Rev. Goo. Morico, at BalHutha, Miss Morice and the remaining members of tho family in Scotland decided to come to New Zealand, wlwrc they arrived in December, 1885. Captain R. S. Matthews, formerly of Inglewood, who has boon residing in England for some years, returns to tho Dominion this week?, together with Mrs. Matthews .and their son.

Mr. Francis Cornwall (Cornwall's School of Music) leaves for south tomorrow for the Christmas vacation.