PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144070, 15 April 1913, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The English Primate is suffering from a severe attack of influenza. The death is reported from London of Mr. Herbert Druce, who was prominent in the Druce case. Mr. R. M. Simpson, general manager for New Zealand of the Phoenix Assurance Company, is on a visit to New Plymouth. • Mr. Thomas Finlayson, partner and managing director at: Auckland, for Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, died yesterday, aged 63 years.—Press Association. The Duchess of Connaught is progressing well, and will go south in a Tew weeks’ time. She will not accompany the Duke of Connaught on his return to' Canada in May. i There was a picturesque wedding at Westminster Abbey on Monday, when Lord Salisbury’s daughter, Beatrice, was married to the Hon. W. G/OrmsbyGore, member for Denbigh. . King George, Queen Mary, and Queen Alexandra sent presents. The Bishop of Auckland, Dr. Crossley, left on “Wednesday, night for a fortnight’s tour of the Great Barrier, where he will conduct services at various places in the island. This is tna first visit of a Bishop to the'Great Barrier since the days of Bishop Selwyn. A noted pastoralist and philanthropist passed away on. April 5 in the person of Mr. Albert Augustus Dangar, of Baroona, Whittinghara, New South Wales. Deceased was educated at Newcastle) at a private school, afterwards at the Truro Grammar School, Cornwall, England, and later in Hamburg. After finishing his scholastic course he entered the British merchant service spending throe years as a midshipman. After leaving : the sea he went to his father’s station at Gostwvck, near Uralla. Subsequently (says the Sydney Telegraph) he acquired a thorough knowledge of station life in Queensland and Ncav South Wales, on liis father’s , properties. In 1863 ho took over the management of, lailaroi, Boombah, Gostwyck, and other smaller stations, and in 1869 acquired Baroona from the Larnach family. The late Mr) Dangar was a noted breeder of Suffolk Punch horses, Shorthorn cattle, and merino sheep. He was a generous benefactor to the town and district of Singleton. The magnificent cathedrallike Anglican Church, which has just been completed at a cost 'of £25,000,, was his gift. The Dangar Cottage Hospital, costing about £BOOO., was also a gift of deceased and bis wife to the people of the Singleton district. It was mainly owing to Mr,. Hangar’s exertions that the first Bushmen’s Contingent was sent to the South African war. He was a strong Imperialist, and was one of those who each gave £lO 000 towards the Dreadnought fund. Deceased married, in 1866, Mary Phoebe Rouse, the third daughter of the late Mr. Edwin Rouse,"-of Rouse Hill, near Windsor. Mrs. Dangar survives her husband, together with three sons and four daughters.