PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 191, 22 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. Okey, M.P., returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr. D. Berry returned from Wellington on Saturday night. A press cablegram from Colombo states that tlie Governor of Ceylon welcomed and entertained the German Crown Prince and Princess.

A Brussels cablegram states that the Queen of the Belgians is suffering from influenza, accompanied by pleurisy in the right side and bronchial catarrh. Mr. Stephen Jacka, a resident of Wellington for over fifty years, died last week. He was sitting in a chair when he suddenly fell forward and expired. The deceased, who was 83 years of age, was born in Cornwall. Mr. Frank Glasgow, formerly of EI-

tham, who for the past few weeks has been acting-manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Bluff, has been instructed to proceed to the head office, Wellington.

On Friday, a highly respected settler of the Manawatu district, in the person of Mr. Law Atkinson, died at the age of seventy-one. Mr. Atkinson had been, says a correspondent, engaged in farming at Newman for about seventeen years, retiring about four years ago owing to ill-health. Sir Maurice CVRorke, M.L.C., Auckland, has received notification of hj» election as a vice-president of the Historical Society of Dublin, which has been in existence since 1745. The appointment is a considerable distinction, there being no other colonial vice-presidents. The president of the society is Lord Ashbourne, and the vice-presidents ii» elude many distinguished personages in Ireland.

Archbishop Redwood, during the course of his lecture in the Wellington Town Hall on Friday evening, confessed to being 72 years of age. He said he had been told by members of the clergy who attended the Eucharistic Congress that he looked no more than fifty. "I said," humorously added Hi# Grape, "that that is the New Zealand climate; if you lived in New Zealand you would look the same at my age."