PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 130, 10 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Justice Edwards will arrive in New Plymouth from Wellington on Monday to preside at the sittings of the Supreme Court here. A London cablegram states that Prince Henry of Prussia, brother* of. the Kaiser, has landed at Southampton for three weeks motoring in Great Britain.

Mr. William Macfarlane died at Waverley on Wednesday, in his seventyfirst year. He had been a resident ot Waverley since 1874, and was -well known to visiting bowlers. Captain M'Diarmid, who is resigning his position in the Wellington Highland Rifles, as he is leaving Wellington for New Plymouth, will be entertained by his company at a "social" next Wednesday. Mr. M'Diarmid has sold out his dental practice in Wellington, and has purchased an old-established dental establishment in New Plymouth. Mr. J. H. Mentiplay, who recently resigned the secretaryship of the Northern Bowling Association, after holding that position for fifteen years, was presented last night, at a meeting of the Council of the Northern Bowling Association,, with a cheque, with which he will purchase a gold watch. The cheque was submitted by clubs affiliated to the Association. The presentation, states a Press message, was made by Colonel Collins, 1j5.0., president of the Association.

English newspapers record the death at Wimbledon of the Due d'Alencon (Prince Ferdinand d'Orleans). The Duke, wh# was born in 1884, was a grandson of Louis Philippe, King of th« French, who was deposed in 1848. Heserved in the French- army under the third Republic. The tragedy of- his life was the terrible fate of his wife (born Sophia Duchess of Bavaria, a sister of the ilate Empress- of Austria), who' perished in the ijh'arity bazaar fire in Paris in 18f)7, r 6atfriflcing her life in order that another woman might pass her in the panic-stricken throng. She was last seen on her knees praying in the flames. After her death the Duke led a retired life, Rpending his winters in his little house in Paris, in the Rue Beaujon, among his books, and his summers at his Tyrolese Castle and in England. He leaves two children—J-Princess Louise, who is married to Prince Alfonso of Bavaria, and the Due de Vendome, who married in 1896 Princess Henriette of Belgium, sister of King Albert. The Dum d'Alencon was a relative of King Oeovge, the King of Portugal, and the King of the Bet gians.