PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 27, 25 February 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr. I'.dgar Kussell is reported to be , lying seriously ill in Sydney, and the , doctors hold out little hope for his rocovery. Mr. Donald Cameron, sole .teacher of the Douglas school, lisi-. received intimation that this application to enter the Training College at Wellington has .been accepted, and be, has resigned bis appointment under the Tnranaki Education Hoard. Mr. Cameron has expressed to (he Hoard his desire to re-enter the Hoard's scrvieci ujion completion of bis term. Miss Amy Jones, who has. been appointed sewing instructress' at the New Plymouth Technical Soliool. hails i'rom Stratford. .She was formerly in the Board's employment, but resigned in order to undergo a. further course of training in the subject in Australia. Miss Jones is highly qualiilod, and, amongst otlier credentials, holds certificates for the ordinary and advanced j courses of instruction at the Sydney | Technical College. | Commander W. J. Gambler, in his breezy autobiography, "Links iu My I Life on. Land ami Sea," gives a very I interesting impression of the famousBishop iSehvyn. The Bishop, lie say->, | was "a man of most fascinating liul dominating personality. T always think lie was a great admiral or general thrown away. He was a born leader of men, and iu the Roman KuHpiro he might have been a Marcus Aurelius. acclaimed Iniperator by the 1 army, and have ln,en borne on their shields to. don file purple at the Capitol. As it, was, Ins incomparable energy and' power of organisation Jizzled out in starting missions." The Wellington Times' correspondent I writes under date ljth January:—The [< Hon. W. Hull-Junes, Xcw Zealand's new i

J High Commissioner in London, arrived ' in London last evening, accompanied by Id's wife and three daughters. Although I ! ho had had a; long and tiring day, he rose at t\ o'clock in the morning to see tho Lizard light, and travelled up to London by train from Plymouth. He was looking extremely wall when I saw luiin at the Great Western Hotel in the evening. "Wc had a good passage in the Corinthic," die. said, ''and I am feeling quite, well. I believe, I have at last shaken oft' the illness which brought me here for change and rest some time ago. | It is a. great relief tu be free from the daily strain ami stress of deputations. ' .departmental work, and political life. I

j feel very much better already." The I High .Commissioner was met' at Ply- | month by 'Mr. .). Augustine Mason, private secretary to the late High Coniinis- [ sioner, Mr. E. M. Konimway, of the I High ConimWsioncr's Department, and Mi\ Phillips, representing the Shaw. Savill, and Albion Company, by whose line Mr, Hall-Jones bud conic to England. Dr. Collins and tlic Hon. Kathleen Plunkcl. sister of the Governor of New Zealand, accompanied Mr. Hall-Jones in tlm express to Londou.