PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 128, 28 June 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Rev. l'\ G. Evans is at present uid<iM|)OM.'d, but not seriously so. Mr. E. 11. Featon, an old Gisborne resident, died on Tuesday night, aged 0!) years. ° Mr. L. liynn, who has been for some time booking, clerk at the New Plymouth railway station, leaves to-morrow morning for Eftliam on relieving duty. Mr. J. F. Ludwig, a well-known Napier jeweller, died suddenly at the Napier Hospital on Tuesday morning, from pneumonia, after a short illness, aged Jo years'.

Constable Flanagan leaves this week for llnwera oil transfer, succeeding Constable I'. CnllvTi, who has been promoted to the post of mounted constable at Wanganui. the world's record-breaking liner Mauretania carries a young 2T CW Zcalamler among her staff of thirty engineers. ilr, Cyril Corliss, formerly of Duncdin, soil of Mr. P. C. Corliss,' Deputy Stamp Commissioner at Dunedin, is sixth engineer of the big Cunarder. Mr. Cyril Corliss, who is only twenty•six years of age, learned his" tra<le iu tht) workshop of Messrs. Joseph Sparlow aiul Son, Dunedin. He was formerly 011 the engine-room staff of the Fed-cral-Houidcr-Shirc liner Surrey. About j eighteen months ago h e joined the 14 lnmetauift us fourteenth cngkieer, and has since worked his way up the scale. A London correspondent, writing under date .May 14, says: ''After a round of travel, full of the greatest intercut, tile lion. Oliver Samuel and Mrs. .Samuel have reached London in excellent health. They have been travelling constantly since the beginning of January, when they sailed from, Wellington. They spent some time ■in Ceylon, Egypt, and Southern Itnly, and saw something of Greece, Asia. Minor, Constantinople, Sicily, Algiers, Gibraltar and Lisbon. They were in Asia Minor at the time of tile recent inassacre, and. in Constantinople nt tjie time of the revolution, but, beyond occasional scares, they suffered no inconvenience or interruptions to their: round of sight-seeine. After a short stay iu London, with tne ( .York |lotel, Albemarle Street, as head-1 quarters, Mr, itnd Mrs. Samuel intendi to leave again tfor the Continent to do ] Northern Italy,' Austria, France, I'russia.l Switzerland, and l>y degrees to work their way round to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. 'Subsequently the travellers will rest uwhilv in Great Britain ')>rior to setting out for tlie l'nite.l States, and Montreal and other places of interest oi< the Canadian-Pacific track; also at Honolulu and Fiji on the : return journey to Auckland. This pro- j gramme will take some time to com- t pletc, bo tin legislative Council wiil not see Mr. Sdniuel il;iiis accustomed place during tli'e comiLfecssion of. Par- I Moment." \