PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 December 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Hon. dames Carroll, Minister for Native Affairs, will visit Taranaki after (he Christmas vacation, and will visit Parihaka during his stay. Air. and Mrs. James lioddie and the Misses Boddie, of Elthani, were passengers for Auckland on Saturday evening, en route to Te Kuiti, where Mr. lioddie has taken up a, sheep-run. Commander Shack'.clon, of tin- Ant-

arctic expedition, ami Dick Arnst, the sculler, were passengers by the Mabeno, sailing from Sydney at midnight on Saturday. ..The Kltham Argus slates that Mr. .laeoh Marx, Mmigutoki, concerning whom his friendo have been a little anxious lately, lias got a turn for the better, and hopes shortly to resume his usual activities. ..

Major Karri Davis and his father, Mr. M. V, Davis, of Western Australia, are on a visit to Wellington. Major Davis will he remembered as having played an important part in the late South African war, for which campaign he raised the Imperial Light Horse in Natal. The Hon. R. MeXab, Minister for I,:: uds and Agriculture, will pay a visit to New Plymouth early in the new I yc.'.r. The principal object of his trip is to inspect the Spotswood settlement.

lie will also visit ilr. "Woods' farm at Omnia, to note the progress of blackhe: ry extermination by goat-keeping. The death occurred on Saturday morning, at itasterton, of the Kev. J. 1 C. Andrew, owner of lea Station, Tcmii. Deceased was born in 1822, and came to the Dominion from England in IS.lti. ilr. Andrew purchased lea Station in IKDii. He acted for many years as minister of the district, and was twice relumed to Parliament.—Press Assoeia-

tii n telegram. Miss Christabel Pankhursl, the English suffragist, particulars of whose 1 doings have been figuring in the cables recently, was born in 1880, and was educated at Soulhport and Manchester High School, and, at sixteen, abroad at a school in Switzerland. On the death of her father, a year later, she assisted Her mother in earning their living. Miss Pankhurst bcame. a member of tlie independent Labour party, and commenced work for the suffrage by sending up resolutions to the I.L.P. Conference, and assisted in getting them carried. In 1003 she formed the Women's Social Political Union, and carried resolutions on woman suffrage in Trades Councils all over the country. In 1004 Miss Pankhurst applied for admission as a student at Lincoln's Inn, and, being refused, she spoke at the Union Society of London—the wellknown legal debating society—on the i|i;eslion of the admission of women to the Bar, and carried the society with her. In 1!)03 she obtained the prize for international law at Victoria University, Owen's College, Manchester, and li' 4. year she took her LL.B. degree, obtaining honours and being bracketed at the hea'd of the list with one man. She was arrested for interrupting Sir Kdward Crey's meeting in Manchester in October, 1005, and went to prison for a week. Miss Pankhurst is one of the most popular speakers on the W.S.P.U. platform.