PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 158, 13 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from New York reports tht death of Mr. Michael J, Henerv, a railway builder. A London cable states that the Duke and Duchew of Connaught have left to open the South African Parliament. The King and Queen, the Duchess of Argyll, Lords Roberts and Crewe bade them farewell. Mr. James Morris, one of early colonists, has passed away, in "the Oteramika district, near Invercargili, at the age of eighty-nine years. Mr. Morris arrived at Port Cha-lmers by the ship Rajah in 1853 (being six months 01. the voyage). His widow survives. him. Mr. P. Maul, of Ashburton, one of the directors of the New Zealan# Dairy Association, leaves this month for England. Mr. Maul proposes to study the dairying industry there, and also to interest himself in the methods of handling New Zealand dairy produce in England. Mr. W. F. Corbett, the well-known sporting writer, returned to Sydney by the R.M.S. Zealandia, after a trip through America. Mr. Corbett says the boxing contest between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson at Reno, for the heavyweight championship of the world, was the poorest thing of the kind he ever saw. Jeffries suffered badly from scart from beginning to end, and at least two-and-a-half of every three-minute round was occupied with clinching. Much depression exists throughout the country. Americans appear to know little of Australasia, and less of New South Wales than of Victoria and New Zealand.

Writes the London correspondent of the Wellington Times: —Mr. Haldane's scheme of absorbing a certain number of colonial officers into the regular army at Home for training purposes is now being put into operation, the first appointment being made last Tuesday, when it was officially announced that Colonel R. H. Davies, of the New Zealand Defence Force, had been appointed to the command of the Sixth Infantry Brigade ai Aldershot in succession to Major-Gen-eral Colin Mackenzie, who had been selected as Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Defence Forces. Colonei Davies lias been raised to the rank oi Brigadier-General, and is already at Aldershot getting a »rip of the work which he will shortly be called upon to undertake. The Sixth Infantry Brigade consists of the Ist battalions of the East Kent and Leicester regiments, Ist Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, and the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire L.I. This scheme is the outcome of the establishment of the Imperial General Staff at the War Office, which it is sought to create a uniform system of military training throughout the entire defence forces of the Empire. Colonel Davies' appointment is the first of its kind bestowed 011 a colonial officer. The appointment is for four years, and Colonei Davies commences his term early in October. Several other colonial officers are attached to regiments in the Aldershov command. Among them are Major 11. ■T. Watteviille. Australian Artillery; Major J. G. Hughes, New Zealand Defence Forces, who won the D.S.O. in South Africa; and Major .J. H. Burche, Australian Forces.