PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 107, 13 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable reports the death of the Earl of Egmont. The death is reported: by cable of Robert Paine, the American philantrophist. Colonel Porter is reported to be making a good recovery from his recent severe illness. I

Captain Muir, now in command of the Petone, was for many years in charge of the ill-fated Duco. Mr. Hector Maclean, M.A., M.Sc., who is leaving to complete his studies in Glasgow, Scotland, was entertained on Monday evening at Port Chalmers by the Young Men's Bible Class. Mr. Maclean was until lately stationed at El•thanu

Rev. C. E. Porter, who is to aot as supply for the Manaia Presbyterian church, applied for admission as a minister of the Presbyterian Church through the Wellington Presbytery. The application was referred to a specially appointed committee. Sir Joseph Ward was confined to his house yesterday owing to an attack of influenza. He was (wires our Parliamentary correspondent) unable to leave with the Parliamentary party by the special train that left for Auckland last might. Mr. Carroll acted as leader of the House yesterday. Lieutenant Renwick, the navigating officer of the Antarctic ship Terra Nova, which is en route from England, is well known out here, having spent some time on the Australian station. For one commission he was on the surveying ship Penguin. Later he was on board H.M.S. Prometheus. In London recently he passed his first-class navigation examination with honours.

Mr. James Fielder, one of Picton's oldest identities, died on Tuesday night, aged eighty-seven years. He had resided in Marlborough over forty years. He was born in Ipswich, and went to sea at eight years of age, fishing off the banks of Newfoundland trading to the West Indies, later carrying troops to the Crimea, He was for some years a servant of the East India Company, and experienced very exciting times. He landed at Nelson in the sixties.