PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 777, 21 March 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria have proceeded to Lisbon.

Lord and Lady Plunkct, with the Hon. Kathleen Plunkct and suite, were through passengers from Oneliunga on Monday, Madame Melba's company at the iloso of her successful concerts in Canada mid tho Vnited States, presented her with a gold and silver laurel wreath.

The new president of the Methodist Conference, Hev, J. N. Butt'.c (says tho New Zealand Times) is the ti'i'th son of the late Hev. George Buttle, and was born «t the old mission station of Kopua, on the Waipa, in l'8")l. On the death of Ms mother, the family removed to England for purposes. He spent alhout live years in England. For some time he was a scholar at the Aibingdon Grammar School, but was subsequently transferred to Woodhouse ;Grove, where he had as school mates Marshall Hartley and John llornabrook, president and secretary respectively of the British Conference, and llr. G. (!. Findlny, one of the professors- at Handsworth. The course of his studies at Woodhouse Grove was interrupted by Ihe return of the family; to New /■".ealand, and he completed his education by three years' residence at Wesley College (I'iincc Albert) Auckland, lie then settled down to agriculture life in the Waiikato, but the Ohiirch called him, and on the re-. opening of the Three Kings Institution in 1876, he entered as a theological student, having for his fellow students (he Hev. S. Lawry (expresidunt) and Hev. T. Fee. He was tirst appointed to Kumaru, and has in turn laboured at, Balclutlm, Momlngton. Gore, Masterton, Ashburton Sydenham,, Timaiu, and New Plymouth, where he is now stationed.