PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 359, 9 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. 0. Samuel is at present on. a brief visit to Wellington. Mr. G. A. Ma reliant, chairman of the Stratford County Council, was in New Plymouth yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Stewart were ainonyst the passengers per s.s. Rarawa to Auckland last night. Rev. the Hon. Yarde-Buller, who lectured at St. Mary's Hall last evening, is tx son of Lord Churston, the baronage being created in 1858.

A Press Association message states, that I)r. Fitchett was entertained at Greymouth last evening in honour-of hia first visit to (irevniouth and his appointment as Public Trustee.

A Press Association wire from London says that the Rev. Edward LeeHicks. Canon of Manchester Cathedral and Rector of St. Phillips, Salford, has been appointed Bishop of Lincoln.

The appointments of Mr. J. K. Newton as agent for the Public Trustee at Ivawhia, and Messrs. C. J'. M'Kenzie and S. J. Harding, resident-engineers' inthe Public. Works Department, are gazetted.

Sir Joseph Ward (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) arrives in Wellington fropi the South today. He leaves for Ciisborne on Tuesday next, and will be accompanied on his Northern trip liv Lady Ward. Whilst in Gisborne the Prime Minister will formally open the maternity home which has just ibeen completed. The Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Rector of St. Patrick's College, has been elected' a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, in recognition of his work at the Meanee Observatory. Some astronomical photographs and lantern slides, taken by him with the Meanee telescope, were recently exhibited at a conversazione of the Royal Astronomical Society in London, and were much admired. The photographs of the solar surface, especially, were regarded as' remarkably good, and comparable with those taken by the late M. Janssen at the Mendon Observatory, near Paris. Sir David Gill, president of the society, was so pleased with the photographic work done at the Meanee Observatory that lie proposed Dr Kennedy as a fellow of the R.A.S. Dr. Kennedy is also a member of the British Astronomical Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorolg'ical Society.