PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 168, 25 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. L. Stowe, Clerk of Parliament, has been reappointed Examiner of Standing Orders on Private Bills. A Press cablegram from Belgrade states that the Crown Prince has satisfactorily passed the critical stage in his illness. The death of the \~ery Rev. E. C. Wickhani, Dean of Lincoln, in his seven-ty-sixth year, deprives the English Church of one of the last members of the line of learned deans for whose creation the late l'ight Hon. W. E. Gladstone was largely responsible. Dean Wiekham will, says the Xation, always be known to scholarship by his edition of Horace, which for years has been the English classic. He was of a somewhat broader school of theology than which Gladstone usually favored in Church appointments, and the liberalism which he learend from that master remained with him to the end of his .life. The late King of Siam—whose full description was Praluit Somdetch Pra Paramindir Malm Chulalongkorn Patindr Tepa Maha Mongkut, Pra Chula Chom Klao, Chow Yu Hua, Chulalongkorn 1., Lord of the White Elephant, King of Siam of the Xorth and South, Sovereign of the bios and of the Malays—was born in September, 1833, and was therefore a lad of fifteen when he ascended the throne in October, 1868. He was the fifth of the Chakrakri dynasty, foun led in 1782 by a rebellious Prime* Minister, who proved to be his own king-maker. He was a man of liberal and enlightened ideas, and concerned himself closelv with the welfare of his people. The late King visited England in 1907, when he was the guest of King Edward. The new K"|g. the Crown Prince Chowfa Maha Vajiravudh was educated at Eton and Oxford.