PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 318, 18 February 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

r A cablegram from London announces the death of Gustavo Bock, the "cigar king" of Cuba. The Hon. (!. Fowlds, Minister of Education, was a passenger from north uV the Karawa this morning. Th,. Rev. Mr. Jolly and Mrs. Jolly are at present on a visit to New Plymouth and are staying at the Imperial Hotel. Bishop Xeligan arrived by the Rarawn this morning. He will be present at the Rev. Wooleombe's address this evening. Mrs. Button, wife of ex-Judge (J. S\. Button, uied at her residence, Mount Eden, on Saturday, at the a-'e of Ift years. . 11. Johnston, who twice captained Scotland against the Australians at cricket, is dead, reports a cable from London. Rev. H. Wooleombe, the Church of England Missioner to Men, arrived last evening, being met at the station by members of the local branch of the C.E.M.S. Mr. R. B. Young, touring manager for Mr. Edward Branscombe's English amusement and musical enterprises, will arrive in New Plymouth this morning to make the final preparations for the farewell appearances at the Theatre Boyal on March 3rd and 4th of the delightful and phenomenally successful organisation, the "Scarlet" Troubadours." A residence of seventy years in the Dominion as colonists is a rare experience, yet Greytown holds four suchMessrs. W. 0. Williams, aged 83, William Ldy, aged 72. Mrs. Hawke, aged 74. and Mrs. J. Judd, sen., aged 71. These four landed at Wellington seventy years ago on Tuesday last. All are hale, hearty, and well, in full enjoyment both of their physical and mental faculties, and good for many more years of healthy and vigorous life yet, we hope. Shipmates—then children, of course, and forming units of their respective fami-lies-—in the good ship Duke of Roxburgh, which sailed from England for this new land in the far Pacific, on the Ist of October, in the year 18S!), they found their new home on the Bth February of the following year. An English newspaper giv."s nn indication that Sir Ralph Williams will succeed Lord Plunket as Governor of Naw Zealand. The journal referred to goes on to say:—The Governor of New Zealand is typical of the class of men that Britain sends forth to rule her oversea dependencies. Sir Ralph Champnevs Williams is a mighty hunter, an intrepid explorer, an author of repute, and approved administrator. He has penetrated the wilds of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, hunting and voyaging along the great rivers, and living the life of an Indian in his desire to gather data of a region which was then a terra incognita; he has travelled from end to end of the Dominion of Canada, and has spent sixteen months in the wilds of Central Africa, during ten ot ■which he had no communication with the outside world; he has trekked through South Africa, he was with Sir Charles Warren's expedition to Bechuanahind. and as a young man he hunt.cd and travelled for two years in Australia. He has thus crowded much into his fil years, which, by the way. rests lightly upon him. 'He stands fix feet two in his stockings, weighs almost 20 stone, and is still as straight as an

f arrow. Lady Williams, who accomI panied her husband on most of his oxI .nediiious, was Hie first Englishwoman who ever looked on the great Victoria I Falls on the Zambesi river.