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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 11 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Robt. McNab, who is t» give a lecture on the life of Captain Cook tomorrow evening, arrives here to-morrow morning. Lady Islington left Plymouth on Saturday, states a cable from London. She was accompanied to Plymouth by MM. Asquith. A cablegram from New York records the death of Prof. William James Rolfe, M.1)., D.Litt., the famous Sharespearean scholar. The Queen Mother, Princess Victoria, and the Dowager Empress Alarie of Russia, go to Copenhagen on the 18th inst. Mr. W. G. Duffield, a South Australian. has been appointed to the professorship of physics at University College, Reading.—London cable. A Melbourne cablegram states that William Hanvard, an inmate of Ballarat Asylum, died at the age of 107. lie was one of the early surveyors of Australia.

Mr. G. C. Foster, a well-known guard on trains running on this coast, and who for the past seven years resided in Wanganuui, has been transferred toAuckland.

A, London cablegram states that Queen-Mother Alexandra gave an audience to Lady Islington, wife of theGovernor of New Zealand, prior to her departure for New Zealand.

Mr. B. Bunbuury, who died at New Plymouth last week, was a noted character in his way. He was very well educated, being an "honors" man of Cambridge or Oxford, and well connected, two of his brothers occupying high positions in England. He resided in South Taranaki for some years, and then came on to New Plymouth. Twenty-five years ago Mr. fiobert Tate, of Waitara, and Mr. W. Adatnson of Ilawera, were members of the Tarranaki representative team which played a well-remembered game in Wellington. Since their football days they had not met until Thursday, when both were in New (Plymouth watching the Star and Clifton match. They are as keen on th» game as ever, and Mr. Adamson was pleased to see a good combination under Mr. Tate's charge.—Waitara Mail.