PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

| Chayiuii, n New Zcalander. I has passed through the British War Staff College. [ Mr. 11, 11. Konl, of the local railway ; stall', has received notice ol' Uanile-r to Ohakune. • A Loudon correspondent Mate- that Master Frank lliitehens has jiKt been j awarded the Nine prize at the Boyal Academy of .Music (London) for the composition of a song. The words were supplied by Klioi. The value of the prize is CI2, and ii i» open to males and females under seventeen years of age. Master Hutche;is is the son of

I .Mr. I!. 1,. llulchiMs. <tf Hatvera. ! Amongst the passenger* who arrived at Melbourne mi Satiir<l«»y, January —«ircl liy the steamer Makura from Vancouver. was Marl Stanhope, a young !>rilish peer. who succeeded to Ihe lit iu IJHIo. Mail Stanhope, wlio has a seal in the iloiNe of Lora*. intends in lour tin- Australian States and New Zealand, witli the object of studying colonial problems in their hearing upon Imperial politics, lie lias nlrcady'spent some lime, in Canada. liavhg left England last. Seji> I

temher. His pre-cnt intention is (o visit New Zealand before devoting Ins atfea-j I lion to I lie Australian Stales. Marl i Stanhope will subsequently travel to the K.isf. and return lio.jo via tlie TransSiberian railway, from Port Arthur. The Marl served with the (Jrenadier (iuards in tin l Boer war. and attained tie rank of Captain, fie owns nhont !2,000 acres in Kent, and his eoiuUr.v; residence is at Chevening. Seven Oaks district. i

Mr Ceorge (HI. a pioneer colonist, di;*d al Juvenargill oil Saturday, lie >\as born near Stutlgarl. (icnuany. in IH:U. ami came to New Zealand in tlie ship Maori in JSo7. This vessel, "which landed passengers at Dnnedin and Wellington. carried to the Dominion a number of British soldiers who were "Jigagi'd in Hie Maori war. At thai time, there were few houses to bv seen from! the site now occupied by Cargo's, monument, Dnnedin. The late Mr Ot.t several times walked overland from Dnnedin to Invercargill in company with , -Mr Ceorge Mumsden, aad the journey was accomplished in four days. lie first arrived in Invercargill in ISA and finally settled in that town in IR<»2.