PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 89, 11 May 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

■ A London cable says that Kin« Edward IS 111 Splendid health. ° TW L T <lo V' al ' le states tlmt Sir Robert Unit has been jnvited to return to Bern- iK Vi |l nW i "/ Ul ° ,4te Sir ora]lam boiir'neK ( " V * 11 Mbl ° f, ' om Mo 1"

of IL L .• S " 1 "l KOn > manager Of till, lhoenix Insurance Co.. is at nr»seiit on «. visit t „ N\'w Plymouth i iTf i 11 ' 1 '" "imnas J" 11 10 appoinlp.l as' oho of t'..(.overmnval Whip, this .session. n,. u , 1,1 |s oi the Ki>v "T"- k,,mVn * 1 , • '° nm ' rl .v of Ton™. De- «« vrai-K of age. ° Health* ■,ii!| 1 ' l fr' <, "f', ll,at PuWie Or. fUTU°tS\c'tZ lilTfc ulitLf ' ■' ''IHcIV , '"V.. "inlst. niimcrojjs HlV,,||, ... .* one of th« tildcr 1 jrruun of '\n W i i journalists, tlumwh i,,. /ealanU flio nMci i • " 'nouns anion" rf."»»»' ttircre founder ot (iorvrnmoat Ufo Tnsurince I tl,ilt joitio.l tl„. departmentThTrtv nt [i ""' 11 ls«r. wT "T^ 10 " Willi joiiriiulisin. J 1 18W, n)i,.„ arrived in New Zealand tliero wis not more than fortv news' papei, in the colony, more t«an half of \ v .'' 1 ' < ' 1 rwentl.v established. T|„, hading lights were tlien the Xclsou Exrro!' 1 (I 'u'T- '!'«• Southern (lo.su, the Wellington Independent, the Vw /ealamler, and the (Uago Witness.i , limes was a yinnm pu.„. r . -mil the I res* an ir.j.mt, Tfter,. were »o newspaper., i„ .Nivpier, and tho smallei towns hail their representatives. The ( olonist, In the Colonist in IJunedin. oeenpied liiinor places. The Kxaniinev was •• The 'i lines" of Xew Zcaiind—modelled m ||„. form ami stvlc of the great London paper, anil reckoning among Us contributors so of the leading statesmen in \>w Zealand, lint when Luckie—clever, incisive, epigrammatic took editorial charge of the ([olonist, the older paper found it had 'I nvtil to rei-ki.n wilh. Mr l.nckie's work shared the inevitable fale of journalistic contributions. Some of It might have possessed .permanent value, but he never made any ell'ort to preserve it, even for his own reference. Vie had been a member of the Journalists' Institute since its establishment nearly twentv years a no, and loved to nltenii its gatherings. His reminiscences of the pressmen and politicians of forty-five years ago were inexhaustible.

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