PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 137, 1 June 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr. A. Humphries, who has been appointed manager of the New Zealand Rugby football team for the first test mnU'h, left by tho until train en route for Dunedin this morning. Mr. G. .Spencer Clupham, well-known throughout Taranaki, has announced himself as u candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat in the Liberal interest, says a press wire from Hastings. General Booth celebrated his Scventynintli birthday last month in characteristic fashion. He was at the international headquarters by nine o'clock, and from then, with the exception of forty j minutes for a vegetarian lunch and a rest, he worked until he went to tne Queen's Hall, where a vast gathering waited to hear his birthday address.) When the white-haired leader appeared upon the platform (says the Daily Mail) there was a great scene of enthusiasm, the cheering continuing for nearly five minutes. In a voice that was audible in every part of the hall, the general reviewed his life in six "epochs": "My coming into the -world." "My spiritual birth." "My separation from the Established Church." "My meeting with my dearly beloved wife." "My starting of the Salvation Army." "The inauguration of the 'darkest England scheme'—that social ideal which has worked good throughout the world." General Booth spoke for ninoty minutes, and one of his last observances was: "I mean to go on living just as long as ever I possibly can."