PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 87, 1 April 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Messrs C. Ridd (chemist), W. Hyde (jeweller), S. Jenkins and F. Jenkins (farmers) leave Elthani to-day on a trip to the Old Country. A special meeting of the Eltliam School Committee wa sheld on Monday School Committee was held On Monday assistant teacher to take the place of Mr. Menzies, who is now in charge of the High School. The committee's choice fell upon Mr. S. J. Poole, at present first assistant at Inglewood. Mr. W. A. Parkinson, of Auckland, is in town on business.

I iMr. W. fP. Gordojj returned from Auckland yesterday morning. During his absence Mr. S. Hill has been actingsecretary to the Marsland Hill Memorial Committee.

Captain A. Standish has resigned his position a 9 president of the Marsland Hill Memorial Committee.

The friends of Dr. and Mrs. Walker will be aorry to hear of the death of their older boy, which occurred yesterday.

The story of the British Premiers family is interesting, and has a strong touch of romance in it. Few people his aware that his father was a shop assistant. James Campbell, Sir Henry's father, who ultimately became lord Provost of Glasgow, and the Premier's uncle, William, were employed in a Glasgow simp, and one night h«*rd a lecture by Dr. Chalmers on "Business Morality." The result of listening to that lecture was that the two brothers set their faces onee and for all against the two-price system, which was ifcen in vogue at every shop. The brothers spoke forcibly about the matter to their employer, with the result that he offered I hem a loa» of £3OO to start in business on their own account, marking the goods in the window at the same price at which they were to be sold. The brothers started a dry goods shop in Glasgow, and it soon ltegau to prosper so amazingly that when the disruption of the Church oamo it was William Campbell who assisted the movement by giving Dr. Chalmers (the lecturer who'had so influenced him) a cheque for £IO,OOO. An uncle, named Baunerman, left his fortune to the present Premier on condition that he adopted the name with the fortune, hence the hyphenated Campbell-Banner-nian. The Premier, who is seventy-one years of age, lost his wife only a short time ago.