About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 261, 3 December 1903, Page 2

About People.

Mr Percy Grailnger, the pianist of the Ada Crossley Concert Company, is an athlete as well as an artist. For his own and not for the |>ublic entertainment, he walked from OaHiiV'W So.ffliinajru, and tfcro,ug|h the night, too, a distance of :>2 mil Ob. Leaving Oawaru at live injnutes to two o'clock on Sunday afternoon ha readhed Studholm© Junction abolut nine p.m., averaging about four miles an hour. After having* a men! and half an hour's rest, he walked on through the night, and roached Ownaru at six a.m. on Wednesday. Ha ' had the pleasure of seeing a beauty- ; ful sunrise on the mountains shortly before he roached town. Jt was rather a plucky undertaking to walk • so far along an unknown road, even •• though a direction to "stick to thV telegraph poles'' afforded security against straying far from the m»ln road. Mr J- A. Kinsella, late Dairy A Commissioner in New Zealand, weo \ has not enjoyed good health since he went to South Africa, states in aprivate letter to a friend in Wellington that if he relinquishes his sent appointment he will return to this colony. Bishop Wallis, of Wellington, vm at Eltham on Mowday, when ho held a .confirmation service in the new All Saints' Church. On Saturday nigtht (says the Stratford Post) when the matriculation classes were closed for the season, the students met and presented their ' tutor, Mr J. Boyle, M.A., with a handsome caso of pipes, as a token of their esteem, and as a slight recognition of his very valuable services In cpnabltfg threni. Mr W. A. Black, who made the presentation t-n behalf .of the students, expressed in a neat speech the goodwill whl-h they felt towards their teacher ; and Afisa Hutcheson, Messrs J. Kobinson, J. llowio and Wilson also spoke, thanking Mr Boyle for his untiring devo- ' tion to the work of the class. Mr Boyle, in responding, returuod his hearty thanks for the manner in which the pupils had shown their appreciation of his efforts. A London cable announces the ■death, at the age of 85, of Sir Frederick Hramwell. Deceased haa 'been a member of the Ordinance Committee of Emgianid since 1881.

Sir James Lees Teerc, Speaker of the West Australian Legislative Assembly, died on Tuesday, aged 78. Mr N. Uolding, of New who for sonic time has been unwell, is still in indifferent health. TtVlate Mr Chas. Seale-Hayne, M.K for the A shlbiirton Division of Devonshire, whose death was recorded a few days since, lias bekjjjeathod £IOO,OOO for the founding- of a college for science and literature in Devonshire. The Kev, Marmaduke Kiggal, of Lincolnshire, England, is at present spending a brief holiday in Tauonaki on a visit to his nephew, Mr E. S. Kiggval, of Egmont Koad. Mr E. M. Smith, is to be officially thanked by the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for his efforts in connection with the passing of two Bills last session. These wera the measures relating to an exchange of sections between the board and the borougiti,, and the adjustment of accounts with the Hawera Board. Mr Balfour is described in M.A.P. as the Euphues of the end of the time. To treat everything In <hs lightest tone of persiflage—never for one moment to relapse into serioutness—to hide real feeling and to advertise unreal feeling, so that it 11 always impossible to say where realm ity begins and affectation ends—thi7 is the dominant mode in large sec tions of English society to-day, and that mode finds its highest, boldest, and most lucid expression naturally in the man who holds the highest .office in the State. There have fceen plenty of cynical Prime Ministers in our history. Melbourne was a cynic ; l'almerston was a cynic ; Disraeli was a cynic; but it was the cynicism o( the world-weary, or the astute, or the adventurer. It remained for Mr Balfour to display the cynicism of persiflage. The names of Miss Jessie V. Pope, of New Plymouth, and Migg E.' Wordsworth, of Patpa, bfive been pfiiced on the list of applicants for positions as probationer nurses in the New Plymouth hospital. llev, Wooiloxwll was tendered a welcome social at Eitham. Wq uiw derstand that he has beon urred to his medical adviser to seek |U2 ■ fields . the Elthaan plimafe la io? jurious to Ws health. elected unflpposedtif the ''boiu^ WmTW#r£ 8 roprwsrt « t *« of «h|