PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 163, 19 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Nap:or telegram states that the Governor (Lord Islington) arrived in Hastings on Sunday evening, having motored through from Featherston. He was the guest of Mr. .1. X. Williams at l-'rhnley on Sunday night, and was to visit Hawke's Hay Show to-day. He will be entertained by the Hawke's Bay Club in X a pier at dinner to-night. An Ottawa cablegram states that Senator Kay has been appointed Lieuten-ant-Governor of Xova Scotia. Mr. Cecil Wright is relinquishing his legal practice at the end of next month, and piloses going on the land up north. A London cable states that King. George and the Queen will visit ex-King Manuel of Portugal and his mother at Woodnoston 011 Saturday. William Snow died at Outram vesterday morning, aged 72. He was a 'former chairman of the Education Board and closely identified with the progress of Taieri. A Wellington press wire states that Mr. L. Gerrard, official assignee i?i. Auckland, has resigned his position in order to enter business on his own account. It is probable that Mr. A. T. Moore, a well-known and enthusiastic fancier, will undertake the duties of secretary of the Taranaki Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Society. Constable T. Liston, of New Plymouth, will be in charge of the Waitara Police Station for four or five weeks, during the absence of Constable Lapouple in Victoria on holiday leave.

Sir. E. Parrott lias tendered his resignation of the secretaryship of the Eltham Bacon Co., Ltd. It is Mr. Parrott's intention to enter into business in Eltham on his own account in a t'resli line, Mr. Maxwell, locomotive foreman at the New Plymouth railway station, wlia is retiring 031 superannuation, was entertained by the railway staff last night at the rooms of the Railway Social Club. Mr. Maxwell is to be succeeded, by Mr. T. Underwood, who occupied the position a few years ago. Professor A. W. Bickerton, of Christchurch; of "'Cosmic Impact" fame, has ailived in London to develop his impact theory of cosmic evolution. He says the visit was suggested by Lord Dudley, Governor-General of Australia, who made a very liberal contribution towards the cost of the journey. He proposes to stay somewhat over a year, and 'may take a run across to America through Canada, and back through the States. A letter received by' a Wellington resident from Mr. G. P. Armstrong, of Opunake, „by Monday's mail, discounts the chance that the George Armstrong* mentioned as having died on the steamer Changsha and he are identical. Mr.. G. P. Armstrong said in the letter that he had been thinking of returning via l Canada, and had not mentioned Japan' or China. Even had he gone there he would hardly have connected with the Changsha, which left there on September 30. A Dunedin telegram states that the probabilities are that the George Armstrong referred to is the engineer of the dredge Caracle, at Manila, and who was expected to return home to Dunedin this month . He was a single* man.

Lord Kitchener, who has been requested to join the Council of Imperial Defence, has been without any official position since lie returned from his mission to Australia and New Zealand. He had previously accepted, at King Edward's personal request, it was rumored, the. position of High Commissioner of the Mediterranean, bnt he asked to be relieved of the position in June last, soon, after his arrival back in England. To this command in the Mediterranean, which the Duke of Connaught resigned because it was a sinecure, was attached a seat in the Imperal Defence Committee. No man, writes' "Miles" in the Daily Mail, could have occupied that seat with greater advantage to the Empire. Yet becnuse Lord Kitchener refused a command which had already been rejected as a useless expense, the Empire has been deprived of his services on the Imperial Defence Committee. It is no defence to plead that the seat in' Whitehall Gardens was an appanage of the palace in Malta. There is on theImperial Defence Committee at least one distinguished person who holds no office, either civil or military, under the Crown, though he has been described as a perpetual Minister without portfolio' and outside the pale of the Constitution; To have retained Lord Kitchener on the Committee would have involved no breach of the Constitution. Recently the Hawera Mounted Rifles, whidi was the cradle of Colonel Daviesmilitary career, sent him a cable of congratulation upon his appointment. Writing from Aldershot to Captain Morrison, officer commanding the Hawera Mounted Rifles. Colonel Davies says:— •'Will you kindly thank your squadron, which was, as you are 'all aware, my 'first love* as a soldier, for their exceedingly kind cable of congratulation to me on my appointment to the command of a Brigade of the Regular Army. I can honestly say that the time during which I had the honor to command the Hawera Mounted Rifles was one of the proudest and happiest of my life, and now, looking back calmly over several years of soldiering in peace and war, amongst Regulars and Volunteer troops, I can most confidently say that I have never served with or seen any body of men who excelled them in keenness and desire to do their duty, or who have, as far as was possible for them, more thoroughly 'played the game.' It was to my old comrades of the Hawera Mounted Riiles that I owe the encouragement that made me persevere, and it is to them to a great extent, that I owe the great good fortune that has befallen me. I trust before many years are over to see my old corps again, and in the meanwhile I wish you and them every happiness and all the good luck that can come to you.—Yours, most sincerely, R. H. Davies."