PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 95, 10 April 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Messrs. (J. Broom and W. D. Blair allied by the Tongariro from Loudon esterday lo join the Government eteriuan Department. Another pas-■k-nyer was Air. ikuis Steward, the iciui-appointed ail master at the Waigaiiui U'i'luiicai s.-houl. —Press wire. Uev. J. Laird, .iiunsler-clect <n tile .Jill street Baptist Church, arrived in Wellington by iiie Tongariro yesterday, and is expected lo be in New Plymouth this evening by the express train. Kev. Laird is a young man, of Irish extraction, and a Dublin student. At the' time the Xew Zealand Conference extended the "cull'' to him he was m charge of the Baptist Church nl Athlonc. Mr. 11. 11. Cliuchcn, secretary of the Wellington Hospital Hoard, is 'spending a few days here. Mr. (ieo. F. I'enlington, of Christ-

church, architect to the North Canterbury Education Board, was in Mew l'lyuioiilh \esterday. lie is making a toui of observation in the interests of his Hoard. Mr. i'cniiiigton, who is a i brother of .Mr. I'. 11. I'enlington) sn well-known as headmaster*ol the Lepperton school for many years, left for the. south yesterday afternoon, after conferring with Mr Sanderson, the Taranaki Board's architect.

It is reported that Mr. W. Ritchie, Chairman of the Waitotara County Council, intends couiestiug tiie i'atea seat, in the Opposition interests. The I'atea Press understands that a meeting of delegates from the various districts of the electorate will be held within the next fortnight to select an Opposition candidate. It further understands that

amongst the names to be submitted to the meeting will be those of Messrs. W. Kitchie, J. Driver, S. Forsyth, O. Hawken, K. 11. Solan, and G. V. l'earcc

ilr. Johnston, lion, treasurer of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, /and secretary of the Mauauatu Racing Club, left for Sydney yesterday on a healthtrip and as delegate from the Manawatu Association to the ltoyal Sydney Show. Before leaving, says a Press wire, he was presented with a purse of over three hundred sovereigns on behalf ot friends. ilr. (I. Lancaster, vice-presid-ent of the ilaiiawatu Association, and ilr. 11. Booth, president of the Feililmg Association and a member of the Manawatu committee are accompanying Sir. Johnston to Australia. The present Survoyor-Ceneral, Mr. T. Humphries, holds rather a uniipie record in the Civil Service, being perhaps the only oliiccr who has liecn in the service for half a century. Mr. Humphries is U7 years of age, and joined the service as a cadet in the Survey Department 51 years ago. lie served through the Maori wars in Taranaki, and in 187.3 became inspector of surveys under the General Government. He became chief surveyor and commissioner ill Taranaki in 18S3 and filled the same position in Auckland, llawke's Hay. Nelson, and Canterbury before succeeding to the positior of Surveyor-General in I'.IUIi. Air. Hum phries is one of a small batch of officer in lhe same department who held tin New Zealand war medal. The Older Secretary I.Mr. Kensington) is another The wedding of Captain It. (1. lOng land. It.S'.U., late commander of tin

Antarctic exploring ship Nimrod. and Miss Jessie Turner, daughter of lII.' late Mr. C. W. Turner, ol Christchurch, was celebrated on Tuesday at St. Mary's. Morivalo. Cliristohurch. The bride, who was given away liy her lirothcr, Mr. llarcouvt Turner, of Wellington, was desscd in a cream Eton coat and skirl with a cream hat with feathers. She. was attended by four nieces--Misses Poppy 'l'urner, Joyce Toiiks. Alex Kirk, and Margaret Garland. The bridegroom was supported hv Dr. Michell, of the Nimrod. The guests included the olficers and crew of the vessel. When Captain and Mr*. England left for their honeymoon their carriage was drawn on the first stage of the journey by the petty-officers and men of Captain' England's late command. Captain and Mrs. England leave for the Old Country next. week. It is unite possible that Captain England will return to the Dominion at. the end of the year to take command of the Nimrod on her voyage to the ice pack to pick up Lieutenant Shackleton's shore party. Major-General Sir Reginald Talbot, Governor of Victoria, who has resigned lliat post and will leave Melbourne in July for England, is a younger son of the eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Sir Reginald entered ihe army lifty years ago as a cornet in the Eirst Life Guards, ilis subsequent military career was active and honourable. He served through the Zulu war of 18711. and when trouble arose in Egypt was given charge of the sipiadron of First Life Guards which, with the Second Life Guards and the Blues, was formed into the Composite Regiment. tie greatly distinguished himself at the actions at St. Magfer, Mahsameh. the tirst and second actions of Kassassin, and at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. He was engaged in the midnight charge of Kassassin, a weird fight grimly fought out in the darkness of desert liight. With Sir Drury Lowe and his stalwart Guardsmen, Sir Reginald Talbot, after Tel-el-Kcbir, dashed forward to Cairo, seventy miles distant, securing bv their rapid movement the bloodless surrender of Aralri Pasha. Willi the ai'mv for the relief of Gordon, Colonel Talbot accompanied the " Heavies," under Sir Herbert Stewart, and fought at Abu Klea, El Gubat, and Matammeh. For his services in Egypt he was nominated Commander of the Bath, was mentioned in dispatches, and received many medals. Subsequently Sir Reginald was for a time military attache at Paris, an A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, was in charge of the Cavalry Brigade at Aldeishot, and later on had command of the British army of occupation in Egypt. His Excelloncv is now sixty-seven years of ag". Lady Talbot is a daughter of the Right Hon. James Stuart-Wortley.