PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 15, 11 February 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

The cable man goes to llie trouble of cabling the engagement of Lord Dalnicny to Lady Dorothy, daughter of Lord Henry (irosvenor. .Mr. William Kerr, solicitor. New Plymouth. who has been appointed Stipendiary .Magistrate at \Yanganui. was (states a Press wire) ollicially sworn in ;is Stipendiary Magistrate by .Mr. ('. (Irahani, 5..M., at Wanganui yesterday. Hidden away in an alphabetically arranged lists of over seventy candidates who have passed the qualifying examination for naval cadetships and will enter the Royal Naval College, Osborne, iiext month, appears the name of his Royal Highness Prince Albert of Wales.

A London cable states that yesterday Kiehl-Marslmll Wood unveiled in the I crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral MacKonj mil's marble bust of Sir William Howard Uu>sell, Mirniounting an inscribed tablet. Subscriptions towards the bust totalled C.">t)o. Sir William Howard Russell was Hie special correspondent of Tho Times i'.i the Crimean war (Alma, Ralaelavti, lnkemian, Kortcli, Sehastopol.* etc.) in the years 18r>-l-s(>. Pie was also correspondent at the Indian Mutiny 1857-oS: 1 Civil War in the Cnited States, 18lil-t>2; and at the war between Prussia and Austria in 18U0. Sir William contested the Chelsea seat against Sir Charles Dilke in IMS. lfc was agahi correspondoiiL at the Franco-German war in 1870; South Africa in 1870-80; and Egypt in 188;i-S4. Til the year 1808 Sir William b'iK-ell was attached to the suite of the Prime of Wales on his visit to Egypt ami the East, and in 18T~>-7<» he accompanied the Prince of Wales as "honorary private secretary to Tndia.