PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 76, 8 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram report* the* death of Mr. Justice Millar. A London cable intimates that Sir Charles Hardinge, the new Viceroy of India, has been created a baron. Acting on medical advice, Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., reconsidered hia decision to r:r.ipy the Bench yesterday morning.

Mr. Balfour (Leader of the Opposition in the British Parliament) is, states a cable message, confined to his bed, and is suffering from a chill. It is officially stated (says a cable' message) that General Sir lan Hamilton has been appointed a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Airs. H. C. J. Goutts and family left Hawera on Wednesday afternoon for Master-ton, where Mr. Coutta is now stationed in charge of Valuation Department work. Mr. G-rrW-: Higgin, of the Opunake staff of the Bank of New Zealand, who is leaving Opunake owing to illihealth,. has been the recipient of a number of presentations. The ladies of tihe tennis Mub gave him a fountain and the gentlemen a razor, while from the staff of the bank he received a gold breast pin.

Dr. A. A. Martin, the well-known Paliierston North medico, on Monday af■ernoon underwent an operation for appendicitis nt the hands of Dr. Wylie, if New Plymouth. The doctor/a many f riends throughout the Dominion (says » the Standard) will eagerly await tie views of his restoration to complete health.

William Russell is paying a visit to England, accompanied ny Lady antf Miss Russell. They arrived last May by the Rimutaka. "I have come to England." Sir William told a London correspondent, "to see various members of my family, particularly those who, like myself, are growing old. I have no definite intention as to the duration of my visit, but I am likely to be on this side eighteen months. I have taken a flat at 25, Kensington Court Gardens, for some 'weeks, and shall probably take a house in the country, and may tour Italy in the winter, but so far we have fixed on nothing." iAt the end of June Sir William Russell was to go to Colchester to the trooping of the colors of the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, the old 58th that served in New Zealand from 1844 to 1858. It was the 50th anniversary of the presentation of thecolors which replaced those hanging in the Art Gallery in Aucklnnd. Sir William was a subaltern in the regiment when those colors were presented; his youngest son is now a captain in thesame'regiment. Sir William's father was also in the regiment, hence his earliest connection with New Zealand.