PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143575, 14 August 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

General Booth has sailed -from Southampton. He is restored to- health.

A London cable states thfrt an operation on Princess Mary was smccessml.

A cablegram from The Hsigue reports the death of Josef Israels, ths wellknown Dutch artist.

Mr. J. B. Thomson, a •well-known resident of Dunedin, died v«rj,y suddenly on Friday afternoon. He fwas about town in the morning, but pressed away as the result of heart failure). He arrived in the Dominion in 181®, and was Mayor of Dunedin in 1882. Ife was 71 years of age. The funeral of the late Mr.. Jonathan Dixon, district manager for itbo Westport Coal Company, took piano on Sunday, and was one of the largest Been in tho district, there being prosewt a large representation of miners, members of local bodies, heads of local government departments, and shipping, and a large following of the .general public*

Mr. H. W. Whitcombe, who au leaving Mr. Newton King to join 3m. E. F. Cornwall, was on Saturday evening presented by Mr. Newton King’s New Plymouth staff with a gold watch chain. Mr. S. W T . Shaw, in making t)h© presentation, expressed the regret* of the firm ae losing 3lr. 'Whitcomb*! after thirteen years' service, and washed him success in his new venture. kfo- Shaw also presented him, on behalf -of John Avery, Ltd., with a handsome silver Cigarette case. Mr. Whitcombe Thanked his friends for their presents ancl good wishes.