PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 340, 16 March 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Rev. F. G. Evans, with his -wife and daughter, returned home on Monday evening. The Rev. J. W. Guy left yesterday, en route for England. He expects to be away for nine months. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's office in London were Mrs. Charlotte Lowe and Messrs. E. N. Norman and son, of Ta ran aid. A cable message from London announces the birth of a daughter to the Hon. Mrs. Lyon (nee the Hon. Kathleen Plunket, sister to his Excellency the Governor) last Friday. Mr. E. P. Fenton, at present art instructor under the Taranaki Education Board, has been offered and has accepted the position of art master at the Masterton Technical School. The Wellington branch of the Navy League gave a ball in the Town Hall last night in honour of the visit of .admiral Poore. There was 1 , says a Press wire, a brilliant gathering. Mrs. Lydia Waterhous?, widow of the Hon. George Marsden Waterhouse, formerly Premier of South Australia and New Zealand, died on January 23, at her residence in Torquay, in her 83rd year. The Rev. Marmaduke Warner, M.A., who is at present on the Home 1 Mission staff in Taranaki, has been- nominated to the Bishop of Auckland for appointment as vicar of St. ThomaV Church. Br. Neligan has accepted the nomination, 'and will induct Mr. Warner in due course. Lord Kitchener and party reached •Dannevirke on Monday night by 1 motor from Napier. The journey to Wellington was resumed yesterday moraine. On Sunday the .party were entertained at Maraekakaho station by Mr R. D. Dt McLean, knd on the return journey visited Sir William and Lady Russell at Flaxmere. Coming back to town they broke the journey at Mr C. A. Hawkins' residence in Napier South, and Lord Kitchener appeared interested in an experimental aeroplane which is being constructed there. A London correspondent states that Dr Sydney T. Champtaloup, the young New Zealander who has been appointed bacteriologist and lecturer in public health at Otago University, and health officer for Otago, has proved himself one of Edinburgh's most brilliant suTXdents. Dr Chamtaloup went from Auckland to Edinburgh University and carried off there nearly all the availaole prizes and honours in the medical schools. In all he won eighteen prizes and medals', including the 'Ettles scholarship, perhaps the most highly prized of all the medical honours at Edinburgh.