PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 221, 11 September 1908, Page 3

PERSONAL

' iSIr. A. E. L. Bertling, formerly head keeper of the Zoological Society s gardens, Regent's Park, London, and latelv chief ranger and gamekeeper for the (Tourist Department at Rotorna, has teen appointed superintendent of the Newtown zoo, Wellington, at a salary of £2OO. Mr. Berling brought out to Hew Zealand, at the request of the High Commissioner, the herd of chamois presented to the Dominion by the Emperor Of Austria.—'Press wire. At Stratford on Tuesday evening members of the "old brigade" of the Stratford Mounted Ritles presented Mr. H. X. Liardet with a haudsome case of pipes as a souvenir of his connection iwith the corps. 'Miss Mabel O. Clarke and Miss Aineli H. Smith, who have received their diploma of Associate of Trinity College, London, are the first in the district tJ .obtain this distinction, and are now entitled to add to their names the latters A.T.C.L. Both of these young ladies have received their entire musical education at the New Plymouth Convent. At the conclusion of the general meeting of the Inglewood T - A-.*" ciation, the chairman (Mr. li. 1 made a presentation of a gold allien ■with medal attached, suitably engraved, to Mr. E. 11- Eobin>on. tile retiring secretary, who was leaving tor stratf°!\lr n |[. Larten. traveller for King. Harris and Co., who has just undergone fl serious operation, is now out of dancer, and his friends will be pleased to hear he is now making a s-pecdv ucoverjr. , . i (The death occurred at ttrt uu_, near Napier, on Monday/ at the age of over 95 years, of Mr. .lames Coghlan a well-known and highly-respected setthr. He came from King's County, I™l'™l- - lieing the eightieth bntliday of Count Leo Tolstoy, a number oi Bussians in Wellington yesterday cabled hint the following message: \rt> heartiest congratulation-Russian prol - tariat, New Zealand.'