PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 96, 25 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Wellington telegram reports the death of Dr. 1). P. James, formerly medical superintendent of Westland Hospital and a leading Wellington practitioner, aged 69.

A cable from Romo states that the body of Pope Leo XIII was secretly removed at night from St. Peter’s to the Lateran, where the tomb has been

ready since 1903*. The translation was postponed for fear of rioting. Rioting accompanied a similar removal oi the body of Pious IX to San Lorenzo.

Mr Mackay, Mayor of Wanganui, who enlisted, is unable to get away to camp with the next draft. The Herald says that so far he has been unable to make satisfactory arrangements to carry- on his legal practice,' and he is not in a position to leave until ho does so. The Herald understands that another solicitor in 'Wanganui is in the same position. Sir James G. Wilson’s son Robert, who was in a considerable way of business in the Eangitikai and Bush districts, finding dh acuity owing to age in getting a commission .in New Zealand, went Home, and, according to a letter received from him, he is now in training at St. John’s Wood barracks, near ! ouden, for an artillery commission, for which he hopes to pass. Take, the ;ij Ngatiraanui chief, wellknown in Taranaki, is dead. It is believed that he must have been about 87 years old. .He was born in captivity, as his parents were taken away from the Waimate Plains in one of the raids of the Waikato warriors. After returning to Taranaki and growing up, he was converted by the missionaries, and with his strong personality, and his power with his people, proved to ho a good friend to Europeans.

Included in the latest list of promotions in the New Zealand army are the names of the following men well-known in Taranaki:—To he Major, Captain F. H. Dampen, late staff officer in charge of the Taranaki area; to he captainsj Lieuts. W. Narbey (Eltham), Murray Urquhart (Stratford), R. W. Wrightson, (late school teacher at llotokare): to be lieutenants, SecondLieiitenant R. J. Bird; to be SecondLieutenant, Trooper E. L. Malone (Stratford).

A London cable announces the death of Sir William Ramsay, K. 0.8., F.R.S., one cf thf greatest scientific research men cf the day. In conjunction with Lord Rayleigh, he discovered argon, and bosidcs'd’covering helium, he detected in the air unknown chemical elements. Prior to 1912 he occupied the chair of chemistry at the London University, and in 1904 was awarded the Nobel Prize.