PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 187, 17 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. W. Lowe, resident secretary for the A.M.?. Society in New Zealand, was in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. Clement Wragge js a passenger by the Maheno, which left Sydney yesterday for New Zealand.—Cable. Fireman H. Moon was presented with the.Association's two-years' service bar, completing seven years' service, at Tuesday's meeting of the New Plymouth Fire Briga<le.

An Ottawa cablegram informs us that the engagement is announced of Count Jacques De Lesseps and Miss Mackenzie, daughter of a Canadian millionaire railway builder. A Wanganui telegram reports that Mr. Alexander Russell, borough engineer, died yesterday. He had been ailing only a few weeks, and had two operations. He leaves a wife and three children.

Among the passengers bv the P. and 0. steamer Mongolia, which left London on. October 7, are the following for New Plymouth:—Miss H. Donner, Mr. DonJier, Mrs. P. L. Donner, Mr. and Mrs. W. Dingle and Miss Dingle, Mr. J. A. Glenn,. Miss G. S. Glenn, Miss Heale, Mr. K. Norman and Master Norman, and Mr. # A. M'L. Thomson..

Writing from London on October 7, the London correspondent of the Wellington Times, said:—Mr. G. P. late of the Opunake Times, is back ia London this week after a pleasant two months' ramble through Scotland and Irelnnd. He proposes to spend seven or eight weeks in seeing London, besides paying a visit to Birmingham, and will probably return to New Zealand via New York and Canada.

Mr. R. M. McCallum, an old Southland •» settler, is dead, aged 72. Deceased was manager of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company for some yeart, this being over forty years ago, and subsequently took up farming on his. own account at Edendale, where he had remained until the time of his death. He had been a member of the Southland County Council for 29 year 3, first joining that body on November 23, 1881.

The death of Mrs. Morice, widow of 'Dr. Morice, for many years surgeon to the Grey River Hospital, and mother of Dr. Charles Morice, the present holder of •the office, is reported from Greymouth. Mrs. Morice had lived at Greymouth for nearly forty years and was widely known and respected in Westland by reason of her gentleness of character and kindlinesß of disposition. Indeed, wherever former West Coast residents are living the news of this lady's death will be deplored. Tfte wife of Dr. Charles Morice is a daughter of the late Prime Minister and Mrs. Seddon.

Capital news has reached Mr. John Prouse, of Wellington, who took such a lively interest in the Christehurch children, the Ellwood tria. The most important item in the letter received is that the children—George, Harry and Pauline—played before Mr. Jean Gerardy, the- famous 'cellist, in Dresden, and he was much taken with their playing. So pleased, in fact, was he that he has offered to teach George, the gifted 'cellist of the trio, free of charge, which is a flattering concession, coming from one on whose time such claims are made. The meeting took place in Dresden, but it is probable that the children will reside at Liege, where M. Gerardy lives, in order that George may get the full benefit of close association with the great artist. Among those who are capable of judging talent, there was never a doubt that voung Ellwood possessed a very great talent (sa3's the Dominion) and that opin-< ion is now endorsed by an eminent judge.