PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143980, 24 December 1912, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Cecil Wright is on a visit to New Plymouth. . The Ven. Archdeacon Towgoods'iaf. staying at the Terminus Hotel. *, ■ Mr. R. C. Esse, of Waverley, returned.' last week from the Old Country, f 7*’s, Mrs. Horrooks, of Feilding, is spending the holidays in New Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Kay are spending Christmas in New Plymouth. . Mr. W. St. G. Douglas, postmaster of Dunedin, and Mrs. Douglas are on a visit to New Plymouth, Mr. B. O’Dowda, who is now engaged on the oilfields in the Weber district, is spending the Christmas holidays in town. Mr. A. Alexander sails from Scotland on the 28th inst. for New Zealand, and will spend a fortnight at Colombo on the way out. 1 '. . Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Davis, of WaverJey, celebrated their golden wedding on Friday last. For forty years they have resided at Waverley. Mr. Charles Hiorns, of Wanganui, arrived in New Plymouth on ■ Monday evening, and left to-day for a short stay at the Mountain House. * Sir George Clifford, accompanied by Miss Clifford, arrived in New'Plymouth by the mail train last night. They ' proceed to Auckland to-night. v j Mr. Tom Wood, third officer of the Karori, now in port, is a New "Plymouth boy, and by an unexpected chance will probably have the good fortune to spend his Christmas in his native towm On Monday night the citizens of Palmerston tendered- a farewell to Mr. W. T. Wood, ©x-M.P., and presented him with a purse, of sovereigns, . jdlfiv. Wood is leaving Palmerston to recuper- - ate at a seaside resort. Sir Gilbert Willis, who was to hare accompanied Lord Liverpool as extra aide-de-camp, had to change hb plans at the eleventh hour. The Hon. Wil-' Ham Peel, Conservative member for Taunton, succeeded to a peerage on the death of Lord Peel, and Sir G. Willis was a candidate for and was elected to - the vacant seat.

Mr, Hector M'Lean, M.A., a former , dux of the Otago Boys' High School, . has headed the list for the whole ofScotland in the annual examination of, the United Free Church of Scotland,, and won two bursaries. One of these is the special and much-coveted Free-- , land bursary for Hebrew, and the two. together are valued at £52 per annum, for two years. _ - Another of the pioneer settlors of

Taranaki passed away this morning in the person of Mr. Nicholas, Knuqkoy, who died at ATaitara Road at the a’ge of eighty years. He came out to New . Plymouth with his parents family 1. in the barque Essex, arriving on January 23, 1843. During the intervening seventy years he has resided continuously in Taranaki, except for. a few ■. years in South Australia, , / Mr. V. H. Hall lias been appointed by the Board of Governors assistant ' ; master at the New Plymouth" High School. Mr. Hall was educatedat the Napier Boys’ High School,-Was' , dux for one year, and won a senior , national scholarship in' 1908. He ,took his B.A. degree at Victoria College .iu i 1911, and sat for honours, in French and English this year. He represented Victoria College in the inter-varsity i - tournament at Easter last. Mr. Hall’ will commence his duties with the 'first '

term of 1913. ■ ), Mr. A. C. Lawrey, who was for five or sis years on the staff at the local' Lands Transfer Office and latterly ,has been with Mr. A. H. Johnstone, has re- - - reived an appointment with Mr.: J. F. Pullen, of Auckland. Mr. Lawrey, ■who takes np his new duties early in the New Year, has been the recipient of several presentations, inclndinh a set of ebony-backed military brushes : from the staff of Mr. A. H. Johnstone, a walking stick, suitably engraved, from the boarders of Chatsworth House, and a silver shaving outfit from' Mrs... Howell and family.