PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8044, 5 February 1906, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Bishop Neligau consecrates the Bell Block cemetery this afternoon. Mr Young, Government Veterinarian, is away for a few days in Wellington, Hon. W. Cameross, M,L,C„ of El Ihaui, visited New Plymouth on Satur. day. Detective Boddam lias gone to Aucl(. land to give evidence in conneetioi with some, recent Auckland burglaries

SATURDAY'S CABLES. GERMAN SUFFRAGES. Berlin, February 2. The Assembly at Hamburg, by 131 to 25, adopted a Bill restricting the suffrages with a view to keeping the Social Democratic minority. JAPANESE IN ARGENTINE. Buenos Ayuks, February 2. Argentina is facilitating Japanese immigration. EMIGRATION. Ottawa, February 2. j Mr Preston, Canadian Commissioner for Emigration, interviewed, welcomed Australia into the licld of emigration. He hoped to see the creation of an Imperial Emigration Department, handling (he problem in the interests of the whole Empire. At the date of his appointment, Canada was receiving 12 V per cent, of the Britons going to North America, and now she was getting upwards of 50 per cent. There was ample scope for Australia in the same direction. BUSH FIRES. Mf.i.iioi'iise, February 2. Bush fires are still raging in the Avoca, Toorn, and Lancelield districts. Much grass and fencing and a quantity of stock have been destroyed. Incendiarism is suspected in some

OBITUARY. London, February 2. Obituary: Lord Masliam. [The late Lord Masliam was the first Baron, being created a peer in 1891. He was better known as Samuel CanhlTe-Listcr, the patentee of many inventions, including a wool-combing machine and compressed air-brakes for railways.] NEW BISHOP OF ADELAIDE. London, February 2. Several ex-colonial and other Bishops took part in the consecration of Archdeacon Thomas, the new Bishop of Adelaide, at St. Paul's Cathedral. Cambridge University conferred a Doctorship of Divinity upon Bishop Thomas. RIFLE CLUBS IN ENGLAND. London*, February 2. Earl Roberts, in a letter to the press, has reiterated his disappointment at only £1,8(50 being subscribed in response to hi:: appeal for £IOO,OOO for Rifle Clubs. Hundreds of correspondents declared that rifle shooting was the business of the Stale. A SENSATION. London, February 2. A sensation has been created in the art world by the announcement that tveuty of Turner's masterpieces, socalled unfinished works, in oil, and valued al a quarter of a million, were concealed at John Buskin's instance. When they have been so-called finished, they will be hung, and shortly pi iced on exhibition in the National Gallcrv.

The ''Daily Telegraph" describes the masterpieces as further indicating Turner's last period.

[Turner died in IHSI, He was one op tlio grcajcsL of landscape painters, Uuskiu, ilu> eminent art critic, died in UlOl.l