PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 5, 30 January 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

I The Premier left Napier last night Ifur Gishorne.—,l'ress wire. The infant Emperor of China is reported to be .sintering from conlluent (smallpox. Tile London Daily Telegraph states that Lord Kavlcigh' is seriously ill at ll'reloria.—Press- cable. I Mr. P. Drcwett, who lias been toilsome years custodian of the Town Hall luitl public libarav, is at present scriuiisly ill. I Miss Rostiia Bucknianu has been engaged by Mr. Frederic Sllipiuan to tour (Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania Iwitli Philip Newbury, the tenor. An announcement in .Madrid that iKiug Edward and Queen Alexandria iuileini visiting the Queen of Spain is ulliKiaM.v contradicted ill London. I The Colonial Ollice denies that Sir Herald Strickland, (iovernor of Ta.v iinauia, is to succeed Admiral Sir Harry IRawson as Governor of New South 'Wales.

i The Very Rev. Dean Carew was en■tertained at (ireyinoulh last evening, land presented with a beautifully illuminated address and purse containing one 'hundred sovereigns in commemoration .'of having completed £j years' miaistra.'tiou in the Grcyniouth parish. I A cable message states that Benoit Constant Coquclin, the elder, a great. French actor, is dead. Deceased was iboru at Boulogne in IS4I, and was cdu-l-ated under Uegnier at the Paris Conservatoire in ISSII. He lil'sf, appeared tit the Theatre Francais as Gros-Rene in Kin' Depit Amoiircus on December 7, II Will.

At a meeting of the Otago Education Board yesterday. Inspector Fitzgerald, who had been in the service of the Board as teacher and inspector since the inception, and who pn.tr to that was in Ihe service of the Provincial Executive, "tendered his resignation. Complimentary reference was made to Mr. Fitzgerald's services, and the Hoard decided to accept, the resignation, and grant Mr. Fitzgerald -ix months' leave of ah-eiicc from dat i full pnv.-l'r.-s wire. At a meeting of the DeaiK' memorial eommitlce at Christchurch, last night, (in anif-mlnient that. a. proposed scholarship be open to boys from any public l-cliool in the. Dominion, provided the (holder attended Hie Chrislchurch Rocs' Uligh School throughout the term of ills fccholar-diip, was discussed, but owing tto the smallncss of the attendance, it Iwu- decided to postpone further consideration t o a future meeting. —l'rc-s Mire.

Mrs Harrison Fee |Mrs Cowiei. the well-known Australian temperance worker and writer, left Australian a fewdavs ago for England. Mrs I intends to conduct a month's mission for the Good' Templars in Ceylon, and a. similar mission at Port Said and in the Ib'lv Land, afterwards proceeding to Ttaiy and Switzerland prior to visiting the United Kingdom. She will probably return in September, and then settle in New Zealand. Constable Reardon, who has been slaItioned at New Plymouth, for about til'Itocii mouths past, has received notice t>f transfer to Eastown, Wanganui. The tniovf menu- promotion, for at Eastown Die will be in chare* of the station, a position for which he is well suited. During his stav here Constable Reardon and his family have, made ipiite a large Hrcle of friends, both socially and bv Mm tactful discharge of his duties, lie ■will probably leave for his new charge (next week, and will be relieved bv an

Hillicer from Auckland. I Among the ollicers who will be all'ecl(ed by the enforcement, of the rule in nifercnce to the retiring aire at sixty-live (years are Mr. T. Humphries, Surv'eyorCeueral (formely Commissioner ' of

frown Lands at Xew I'lvwoiilli); Mr. iA. Karron, chairman of (he Uim| s I'nrWin«r Jloard; Air. Wilson llurslhouse. | ( 'liii'f Engi rof lioads (another old 'resident of New Plymouth); Colonel A. Illume. Inspector of Prisons; Mr. C. A. 'St. li. Ilickson, Commissioner of 'Stamps .Mr. ISolhani, Registrar-Oncra! 'of Lands ami Deeds; .Mr. M'. T. (Iln.wow 'Secretary of Customs; and Mr. Wray. IS.jr. at Tiinaru. A Chrislehiiveli wire announces the death of Mr Kmil C. Skog, who in I.SSI was appointed Vice-Consul for Denmark and nine years later Consul for Denmark for the South Island, in IST.-, lie

arrived in Napier, where lie remained lil! ISSI. where lie came lo Christi-hiirol.. when' lie was assistant luaanijcr of Cook and 'IW (chemist) Imsiiios lill ISIPK when lie became manager. He hail acted as examiner for the I'harmarv Hoard, and was a prominent Mason, lie wa- born in Coponhae.e,, in IS (Si. and held a commission as lieutenant of the, Danish army. After an ilhio-- f\li-nilinir over some iiuinths. Dr. lioonio Maokav .Macdonald died <m t'ridav at his rcsideiiee in I'lirisiehiiroh. The late Dr. Maedonald wa- [he second -"ii cif I lie late Mr (icorjio Macdoiiahl. the fi.iiioii- novelist, lie was horn ill Knjilnnil ISIiS. and was ednealed al (aniliridee rni\ersiiv and Kiim'st'olle-,.. 1.n11d,.11. After iie .|llillirn'.l he practised as a throat -pocialist for lei voar- with liis brother. Dr. Civvillc Macdoiiahl. the fainmis s]ieeialist. ia llarlcv street, and in IIKKI he came out lo New Zealand with the hope (Hat Hie climate would improve hi- health. Although he had onlv lieen in Chri-tchiirch about Iwo years. Dr. Macdonald made ,„aav friends, and his f.cncr„-ity and ,eadinc-s to a-sist. those in need o! help, holli privately and professionally.asiiactl him much csiocin. lie was regarded a- ' an exceptioimnv brilliant specialist in di-esw, of Ihe eye and lliro.il.

\ cliristchnrch press wire -ays that the death of Mr Donald Mol.cmion. of West, Mellon l('antorhiiry). which tool; nhice at an early hour oh Tuo-day inorni„„ removes another of tile fiisl dimin ishin" hand of early colonists. Horn at lioss-shire. Scotland, on .1im-,,.,,-v 1 Uli IS2». Hie late Mr. Mcl.emion was broii".lit up In ]«istoriil pursuits. and frimi •»' 01ir, . v !l " 1 ' s "" owl '' 1 "" " ,t( ' v ' est in live slock, of which he was an exoollout iud".e. In danmuy hsb-2 hj,. ■,rrivvd in l.vttcllon by tin' >'»!' ~n , „„d since that, lime he remained ; n OrMerhnry. •',, his arrival in Now '/..■il-lilil he entered the employ ol I lie Id'e'-Mes-rs doliu Ml™ and liobcrt-on M .oa >.' of 11»- Wnimakariki Waikakah j-mhor. and Morvon llil - s,at,on-. ' v.ilillnirsf Later he removed to Tlho a'l from lill IRS4 was) • r.o of ihe "lit Millions at the/ Tliads in tlu-latter years he,,mvhascd "ropevlv al West Melton where ho/ vUm tin tlie 1i1,,c of llls '