PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 316, 6 January 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

A London cable stales that the Kiig and Queen of Britain will pay a state visit to Berlin during the second iwe:*k in February.

Mr Alfred Ogston, the British ViceConsul at Messina, who lost his wife in the earthquake, is nephew of Dr. Ogston, District Health Ollicer of Duue-

I Dr Tempest Anderson, of London, is !at present visiting Xew Zealand to study the volcanic and seismic phcno« niena of the Dominion, lie has'lnuf ti 1 world-wide experience of his subject, having In Ji>o2 been a joint author of a '".Report to the Royal Society on the West Indian Eruptions" and besides writing other works Ims been Timlall, lecturer on volcanoes at tile Royal In-1 stitution. After visiting Milford Sounds j he will go to Rotorua.

News was received liv cable from England on Monday of tho (loath of Mr. John Alfred Hives, a well-known Mastorton she»p-farmer. Mr. Hives (tirr>fcis the Dominion) loft Masterton for Kngland with his daughter about two months ago, mid ho died fourteen days 'after "his arrival in t.reat Britain, Mrs. , Hives, who was a sister of Mr. A. P, Whatman, of - ''Abbotsford," died throe months ago. and Mr. Hives was taking his little girl ITomo to bo educated. The only other child, a #»on, is being educated at AVanganui College. A noteworthy ineiilont in the life of

the late Captain Stein, who was dTQws\ ed at Opotilri, is recorded hy Mr. "W. Mikkolson, of Aueklaml. Jt was during the war with Austria in Jrtf>4 thai the ill-fated skipper, then a youthful Dane, saw an officer from the enemy's army in danger of drowning, mid, after a strenuous swim, effected n rosette. Some time later he was made the recipient of a gold medal from the Emperor of Aus- I tria, the latter bavin - * been informed n? i the gallant act. IKe late captain was a native of Fredericla, Denmark, and 'Attained tho age of fifty -sight years 0:1 his last birthday. |]jo reached >!rw Zealand twenty-eight' "years ago, being then a certificated master mariner, ami although he and Mil. Mikkclson wove schoolmates in Hemnsyrk, it was not until a couple of years (ago, after residing in the Dominion fori many years, that they chanced to renew the acqnahitaii.'o of their bovhood. •, it' i