PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 386, 11 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

A Sydney cable states that Sir James Mills (chairman of directors of the Union Steamship Company) has left on a visit to England. Dr. St. Clare Thomson, the throat specialist who was called in to attend the King, is a brother of a well-known New Zealand bank manager who lived for several years in Dunedin. Mr. Harold F. Law, of Auckland, who has been appointed to the accountancy of the local branch of the Bank of Australasia, will arrive from the north by the Raraiwtt this morning.

Miss Eri Thomson, the Stewart Island 'vocalist, whose voice commanded the attention of Madame Melba at the close of last year, is at present in Oamaru. en route to London, where Miss Thomson intends to undertake a further course of training in voice production. Miss Thomson speaks in terms of the warmest gratitude of Madame Melon's kindness to her while in Melbourne, and of the encouragement she received from the great diva. In Melbourne Miss Thomson had the great misfortune to break down in health, her nerves suffering severely from the strain of travelling and unwonted publicity, so that she was unable to take the fullest advantage of the opportunities afforded by the tuition of HenPeterson and Madame Melba. But already the improved methods assert themselves, and Miss Thomson leaves for England with good reason for optimism.—Oamaru Mai!.

"You ask for my personal impressions of King George," said Sir Joseph Ward on Monday .to a Times' pressman. "I do not suppose it will be regarded as invidious if I say that from a very close observation of King George V. I should expect to find that the wide experience he has already gained of countries and people, owing to his worldwide travels, will, in his exalted position, stand him in good stead. My impression is that King George, who eon*mences his career with enormous responsibilities under difficult circumstances in his o\v;i immediate territory, will prove himself to be a strong ruler, and there can be little doubt, in my opinion, that the great store of tacf that his illustrious father possessed is shared by him to a much larger extent than the world appears to thiols, J. am sure that the people of the great Empire over which lie presides unite in wishing him God-speed in the great undertaking that of necessitv attaches to him in the position he now fills."