PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 164, 20 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Newton King is at present suffering from influenza. A London cable states that Colonel Godley has been gazetted major-general while in New Zealand as Commandant of the Forces. A New York cable reports the death of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe at the age of 91 years. Mrs. Howe was a wellknown authoress, and took a large share in the anti-slavery agitation previous to the Civil War. Subsequently she was active in advocating woman's suffrage, prison reform and the cause of peace. She was a Unitarian preacher and lecturer. Her "Battle Hymn oi the Eepublic" is widely known.

A Dunedin wire states:—With reference to a cablegram from Brisbane, announcing the death of Geo. Armstrong, a New Zealander, there is reason to believe that the person is Geo. Armstrong, formerly of Dunedin, who had been in the employ of the Parade Dredging Company in the Philippines, Advice was received that he intended returning by the boat leaving two days before the Changsha, but enquiry by cablegram has elicited the informatics that he sailed by the Changsha. His brother, Robert Armstrong, will leave to-morrow to interview the captain of the Changsha on the matter. The death is reported by the Kaikoura Star of Mr. Alexander Wighton Ingles, at the age of seventy-two. Mr. Ingles was formerly well known in son. He was born in May, 1838, was educated at the Navy College, Portemouth, and joined the navy as a midshipman, going through the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. He retired from the navy with the rank of lieutenant in the early sixties, with tne Crimean and Indian medals, and can* to Nelson in the Eavenscrag in 1862, soon afterwards taking up the estate ot Kincnid, Kaikoura, with his brother Henry. In 1869 the deceased married Ellen, a daughter of the late Mr. D. Johnstone, of the Nelson Customs, and he is survived by his widow. Mr. Ingles was one of the oldest surviving members of the Kaikoura County Council, of which he was chairman, he was a senior Justice of the Peace in his district, and the first president and a lifemember of the local A. and P. Association. His surviving brothers are Bishop Ingles and Admiral Ingles (Eng.) and Mr. Geo. Ingles, Kaikoura.