PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 25 March 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from Melbourne states that Mr. Hudson, Railway Commissioner, is dead. ' s - A cable- from Adelaide- to-day announces the> death of Mr. Cresswell, secretary of the Cricket Association. Mr. A. G. Stephens, the well-known" Australasian journalist, left Auckland for Sydney by the Wimmera 'On Monday evening. Mr. H. Suter, the well-known; conchologist, who is preparing a wo?k oil the Mollusea of New Zealand/ and has been on a brief visit to Wellington, has now returned to Auckland.' Mr. Alex. -< Mills, of the' Auckland Telegraph Office, who^has been granted six months' leave /'ot absence to* visit the Old Country, feas been presented with a travelling rug by his brother officers. He left by the Main Trunk express to join the Athenic ' at Wellington. ' ' . A quiet wedding was held in St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth^ aT'iew days ago, when: Mr. A. L. Ghapp^tl, of the literary staff of the Taranaki Herald, wa's married to Miss V. E. Alien, of New Plymouth. The ceremony. was performed by the Rev. F-. G. Evans, vicar of St* Mar,y's. Several changes have taken place in the staff of the Wellington Hospital. " Mis 3". Berry, who has received an- appointihfenib as matron of the Napier Hospital, sent in her resignation to the Wellington Hospital Trustees],, and SisW E. Pengelly was appointed submatrqn of, the Nurses' Home in her place. It was decided •to forward a letter to Miss Berry expressing the trustees' appreciation of her service's. Dr. Brown was appointed -first senior assistant on the, medical staff, vie© Tyt r Gilray, resigned. Dr. Simpson, wad appointed to replace 1 Dr. Brown. Mr B. J: Jackson, for many years in the New Zealand Customs Department died at Wellington Hospital yesterday morning after undergoing an operation, states a press- wire from Wellington. Deceased "was n native- pf England, and joined the Government service here in the early :days. After serving, in various capacities in the Cust6ms> m different parts of New Zealand, he was appointed inspector under the BeerDuty Act and held the position' until he retired some y6ars ago. For some time past he had resided in Tasmania. One of his sons is an officer of tab Wellington Harbour Board . . { \ Mr. George Fenwick, managing editor of tne Otago Daily Times, who was to leave Dunedin recently „'lor the Old Country to attend the Imperial Tress Conference, was farewelled by" tho Otago Master Printers* Association in tho Commercial travellers' Club. Mr. C. Holdsworth, general manager of the Union Steamship Company^ together with his family, leaves for Eu-4-opo in May, joining the Makura at Sydney. He expects to be away from New Zealand for about nine months. - The University of Edinburgh has conferred a doctership of Civil Laws on Professor Gilray, of Otago -University.