Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 31, 28 May 1914, Page 5

Personal.

The death of Mr Langdown, Chairman of Committees in the Assembly, is announced from Melbourne. The Governor of Queensland has intimated his intention to resign at the end of the present year. The Kaiser, in response to the Kaiserin’s entreaties, has agreed to Prince Oscar’s engagement, states a cablegram from Berlin. TJhe Admiralty pays a warm tribute to Hamel’s services as Britain’s foremost exponent of the aviation art, states a London cablegram. The death of Mr W. C. McDougall, popular manager of the Oamaru branch of the National Bank, at the age of 60, is announced per Press Association. Mr E. Marfell, of Toko, was welcomed to his seat »n ’.he Education Board yesterday. Mr Mar fed was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Mr W L. Kennedy for England. Mr H. E. Holier contradicts the rumour that he has dendteiy .tedded to contest the Port Chalmers seat at th© general election. He say s that if he does stand it will not he as an Independent. Mr R. P. Hudson, president of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Association, was unanimously selected at a conference at Motueka to contest the "Nelson seat in the interests of the Government, states the Press Association. Lord Strathcoma’s personilty in Britain and abroad was sworn at £4,651,402. A London cablegram states that the realty is estimated at another million.- The death duties amount to £837,838. The list of shares include £1,321,000 United States Great Northern Railway, £822,000 Canadian Pacific, £676,000 Northern Pacific, £258,000 Hudson’s Bay, and £129,000 in the Bank of Montreal. The death is announced from London of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. Sir Joseph, who was a fellow of the Royal Society, was born in 1828. He invented the carbon process for making permanent photographs, now known as autotype. He also invented the incandescent electric lamp bearing his name, which was the forerunner of all other incandescent electric lamps now in use. Another invention was a miners’s electric safety lamp, and among his minor inventions were improvements in photo-mechanitcal printing and electro-metallurgical deposition.