PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 67, 28 June 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. MusseU Fleetwood has .been appointed clerk to the i>t. Aubyn Town Hoard.

A London cable states that Lftdy Islington, wife of New Zealand's Gover« nor, lunched with King George and Queen Mary at Marlborough House on Monday.

Messrs. W. D. Anderson and C, O. Mawke were amongst the passengers toy the x.s. Rarawa to Auckland last night. Mr. Lawless, late of Stratford, has purchased the Rutland Hotel in Wanganui.

Word In-; been received of the serious illness of Mr. J. Pa ton, the well-known Wairarapa journalist and proprietor of the Wairarapa Daily Times. Mr. Pa ton' 6 condition is causing the gravest anxiety, aud little hope is entertained of his recovery. Genuine regret will be felt in all .parts of the Dominion on the receipt of the news, for Mr. Paton is a journalist with high ideals of his profession, and is greatly respected by all classes of the community.—Exchange. Captain Cresswell, of the Common* wealth Naval Forces, seen in regard to the invitation to Admiral Sir K. Henderson to advise on the naval defence of the Commonwealth, said: "The fact that Admiral Henderson has on him the imprimatur of Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, the First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, means that lie is likely to be one of 'the very best men for the work. I think it is an excellent proposal in every way. The Admiralty were asked to choose a man, and he is their choice. I know that what the Government was anxious to get was the very best advice that pos- , sibly could be obtained. And another ' consideration that I think weighed with them was to get a man. absolutely free from any possible local bias. They wished to get the very essence of fairness and so start out on the most absolutely, correct line which it was possible fofi them to adopt." A Wellington telegram states thafi the position of Commissioner of Taxes, rendered vacant by the resignation o£ Mr. Peter Heyes, has been filled by thcr appointment of Mr. George F. C. Campbell formerly Valuer-General. Mr. P. W. Flanagan, Commissioner of Grown Lands at Chrisbchurch, has been apt" pointed Valuer-General. Mr. Eobieson, Director of the Commerce and Tourists Division of the Department of Agriculture, will succeed Mr. Campbell as manager of the State Fire Insurance Department. Mr. B. M. Wilson, Registrar of the Art)itratioa Court, succeeds Mr. Robieson as Director of the Tourwta' Division. It is not intended to attach the Valuation Department to the Taxation Department The Valuation Department will be kept separate from the 1 Taxation Department and all depart* ments lending money.

Particulars of the personnel of the scientific staff of Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition have been received by Mr. J. Allan Thomson, at present working in Sydney, who will accompany him as zoologist. * The head of the scientific staff is Dr. Wilson! His particular subject is vertebrates. The other members of the staff are Dr. Simpson (magnetism and meterology), Mr. C. S. Wright, Toronto (magnetism, sda-water physics, and ice), Mr. E. % Nelson, Cambrlteeand Plymouth marine biological station (zoologist at shore station), Mr. D. G. Lillie, Cambridge University (zoologist on ship), Dr. >E, L. Atkinson, R.N., bacteriology (parasitology and photo-zoolo-gy), Dr. D. F. Griffith Taylor, an Australian graduate of Cambridge University (geologist), Mr. J. Allan Thomson, Xev,- Zealand Rhodes scholar and exhibition scholar at Oxford, now working; at Svdnev University. Another Australian will probably accompany the expedition. Besides these, Captain Scott has secured the services of Mr. Bernard Day r who' went with Sir Ernest Shackleton as electrician, and who looked after the' motor car.