PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 9 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph Ward left Wellington last night for Lyttelton. A cable states that the German Crown Prince wiM tour through India, China and Japan in November. , Acting-lieutenant If. Willis (Taranaki Rilles) and Acting-lieutenant A. Kle'nner (Waitara Rifles)'will sit for their lieutenancy examinations on September 7, ■ The death is reporte.! in Tiniani of a Crimean and Indian veteran named Air. I Charles Massey. He saw much service", i and went to Timaru forty-two years ago, I having then been eight' years in New Zealand. j Colonel Btutchop, who leaves for England shortly for" military training, was entertained on (Saturday afternoon by ex-residents of Port Chalmers, now living in Wellington, and presented with a travelling bag, says a press wire. The death occurred at Eltham yesterday of Mr. (Jeorge Dyson. Deceased, - who was seventy-two years of age, was an old .settler in the district, and had i carried on fanning in various localities.. His wife predeceased him some time ago. -*-Argus. Yesterday the Prime Minister cabled congratulations to Lord Strathcona on the. attainment of his ninetieth birthday. He also sent a cablegram to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, expressing sympathy in connection with his recent railway accident.—Press telegram. The Hon. Walter Long, a member of ] the Balfour Government, is suffering from appendicitis, says a London cable. An operation is unnecessary at present, but re is confined to his home, and some anxiety is felt by his friends.—A further wire states that Mr. Long was successfully operated upon. The death is announced of Mrs. Hea- < phy, widow of the late Major Heaphy, \ one of the few remaining links with the earliest days of New Zealand. Catherine Letitia Heaphy was the eldest daughter of the late Rev. J. F. Churton, i M.A., LL.D., chaplain to the forces, and afterwards first vicar of St. Paul's Church. The appointment of Captainand-Adju-tnnt F. T. Bellringer to the rank of Major is gazetted. Major Bellringer passed his examination some eighteen months ago, and his rapid promotion from the rank of lieutenant in the Taranaki Rifles to that of major is a tribute to the earnestness with which he took up the study and practice of mattersmilitary. n i—-egg