PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143763, 11 April 1912, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. J, E. Armstrong, district railways traffic manager, is in town on an official visit.

Mr. C. P. Lindegreen, of Hastings, has been appointed official organiser of the Reform , Party. An old 67th man, named Isaac Gleed, who fought in Taranaki in the Maori wax, died at the Veterans’ Home, Auckland, on Sunday last.

The Hon. W. C. F. Carncross. of Eltham, is, we regret to learn, laid up with illness, which is likely to confine him to his room for some days. Mr. H. T. Twiss, Crown lands ranger, is ill with typhoid fewer, supposed to have been contracted during his travels in the back blocks. Mr. C. M. Strouts, accountant in the Wanganui branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been promoted to a similar position, in the Dunedin branch. Mr. Deighton, of the Hastings branch, succeeds him at Wanganui. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of Mr. Dacey. State Treasurer, suddenly this morning. He was removed to a private hospital yesterday, suffering from something like. abut© rheumatism, and a fatal termination to his illness was unexpected. The labour cause thus loses one of its most prominent and stalwart supporters. Mr, John M‘Donald, who .was the first, to bring in the news of the White Cliffs massacre on February 13, 1869, is at present staying at the Terminus Hotel. Mr. M'Donald’s family were settlers in the district, and Mr. John M'Donald, having busihejp at the White Cliffs, rode over there, only to find that the Rev. Mr. Whiteley, Lieutenant Gascoigne and his family, and Messrs. Milne and Richards had been murdered. Mr. M'Donald' brought the news to Waitara, and MrW. D. Webster brought it on to New Plymouth by steamer. Mr. M'Donald followed next morning, and returned to Pukearuhe with the Volunteers and Militia, to act as guide for them.

On the occasion of his retirement from the Postal Department, Mr, W. Sfc. G. Douglas, lately Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, was presented with a purse of sovereigns. Mr. C. H. Burton (assistant postmaster), who made the presentation, said that contributions had been received from the staff, country postmasters, and mini contractors. He had been under 20 postmasters himself, and therefore spoke with some knowledge when he said chat he did not know of anyone who had given so much attention to his work as Mr. Douglas had done. If ho were to express in one word Mr. Douglas’S characteristic he would say that word was thoroughness. It was the wish of all of them, that Mr. Douglas would have long life and good health to enjoy his well-earned pension. Mr. Douglas, in reply, said he deeply appreciated the spirit that prompted the presentation, chiefly for the reason that it was an indication that he was leaving them with their good wishes and respect.—(Applause.) 'ln saying goodbye he could not but express nis satisfaction with the way in which the staff had always accomplished its work.