PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143484, 4 May 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Major MTntosh, of Wellington Battalion, has resigned his commission. Sir Francis Langelier is the new Gov-ernor-General of Quebec. Mr. Robert Fletcher was yesterday unanimously re-elected chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board. Mr. Wm. Pryor, general secretary to the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, arrived in New Plymouth last night. Subscriptions are being collected for a memorial to the late Mr. G. C. 'Wheeler, of Waituna West, which it is suggested should take the form of a fine sheep pavilion on the Palmerston North show grounds. Mr. A. B. Muir, managing director of the Poverty Bay Herald, Gisborne, and one of his sons are at present on a short visit to New Plymouth, having motored from Napier via Wellington. This afternoon they drove out to tho Moturoa Oil Wells. A London cablegram states that Sir Joseph Ward will preside at tho dinner to Mr. Harold Tennant at the National Liberal Club on May 18. Mr. Harold Tennant is Parliamentary Secretary to tho Board of Trade. He is a brother-in-law of Mr. Asquith. A press message states that Queen Alexandra has left Trieste en route for England, to attend the. King Edward memorial service on Saturday. Tho Vienna correspondent of the Daily News says that Queen Alexandra was unwell for the whole of the cruise.

Miss Flora Scales, daughter of Mr. G. H. Scales, of the Hutt, has had a picture hung in the Royal Academy. This is a ‘ great distinction, especially when Miss Scales has only had three years’ tuition in London. Her talent is for animal painting, and her master was Mr. Frank Calderon, R.A.

The Patea Press records the death yesterday of Mrs. Howitt, wife of Mr. William Howitt, one of the oldest residents of Patea. In the sixties they lived in the Okato district, where Mr. Howitt had a farm, and in 1878 they moved to Patea, and have resided there ever since.

Mrs. Ready, wife of the Rev. W. Ready, who was seriously injured by her leap from the balcony of the parsonage in Hopetoun Street, Auckland, on the occasion of the recent tiro, is making favourable progress, but her recovery will necessarily take some time.. It has been ascertained by means of the Strays that both ankles were broken in the same place, but tho doctor is very hopeful that, by careful treatment, tho use of the joints will be fully restored. A correspondent writes:—Mangorei has lost by removal onq of her most valued settlers. Mr. E. Carrick, a son of the late Mr. Matthew Carrick, was born in the district, and ho has so associated himself with tho district that his loss will be keenly felt. On the eve of his departure he was given a send-off, which took the form of a social and dance, at which he and Mrs. Carrick were presented with a handsome set of carvers and a very pretty hot water jug (Doulton ware). The holding capacity of the Upper Mangorei Schoolroom was ,taxed to the utmost, over sixty friends being present. Sir. Frank Oliver, who occupied the chair, made the presentation, and both he and Mr. Brown eulogised the Carrick family. Mr. and Mrs. Carrick, in neat speeches, thanked their 1 friends for their display of friendly feeling and gave them a general invitation to visit them at their new home. ,

In the course of an interview Bishop Julius, who conducted the consecration ceremony in connection with the installation of the Ven. Archdeacon Croesley as Bishop of the Auckland diocese, said his first impression of the new Bishop was that he was a quiet, cautious, reliable man, with something of the fire and eloquence of the Irishman and something of the caution of the Yorkshireman—in short, just the man to do good service in the diocese of Auckland under present conditions. Bishop Crossley, before coming to Australia, worked for some time in Yorkshire. Tho new Bishop received a very warm greeting from the members of the Anglican Church in Auckland, and from tho leaders of other bodies, including a very warm letter of greeting from ■ Bishop Oleary, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. He preached an excellent sermon on the night of his installation. Bishop Julius added that one felt the need of a great Cathedral Church, one fit for tho mother diocese of Now Zealand.

Tho late Mr. E. J. Riddiford owned the big Te Awaite estate of between 50,000 and 60,000 acres on the East Coast (one of the finest deer forests in the world), the Orongoronga estate (which includes 640 acres of freehold and 7000 acres of leasehold land), and about 200 acres in the Hutt Valley, including the ton acres surrounding his beautiful residence at the Lower Hutt. Mr. Riddiford. has been too much engrossed- in agricultural and pastoral pursuits to devote niuch time to public affairs,. but he was at one time a member of the Wairarapa County Council and other district bodies, and in the early days of unrest ho served as a lieutenant in the militia under Colonel Gorton. Ho was at one time a vicepresident of tho Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association. In 1879 ho married a daughter of the late Mr. Henry Bunny, of the Hutt, a sister of Mr. E. P. Bunny, the present Mayor of tho Lower Hutt. The deceased leaves three sons, Messrs. E. J. Riddiford, R. Riddiford, and D. Riddiford, and three daughters.