PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 194, 25 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Press cablegram from Brussels states that the Queen of the Belgians is progressig favorably. Admiral King Hall, who succeeds Admiral Poore 011 the Australian statioij, will leave for Australia on. January 13 and his family in March. '

The Rev. 11. A. Favell, formerly of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, is at! present assisting in the work of All Saints' Church, Auckland. Lady Dudley, wife of the GovernorGeneral of Australia, who underwent a serious operation on Monday, is makingsatisfactory progress, states a Press Association cable message from Melbourne. An Australian, Dr. Ingenieur Colin Sprent, who did so well at the University at Dresden (Saxony), has ceived an appointment to the research department of one of the largest electrochemical works in. Germany. Considering the objection of employing Britisher!* in the higher technical branches in the Fatherland, Dr. Sprent's engagement comes as a surprise. He is probably the only Australian so> favored. Mrs. Ira D. Sankey, widow of the famous evangelist and'hymn-tune died a few weeks ago in New York. She accompanied Mr. Sankey on his 1873 ,tour through England with Mr. D. L. Moody, and in her husband's later years, when his eyesight failed, she was constant in her devoted attendance upon him. "Slip has been a blessing and a "helpmate to me throughout my life and in all my work," wrote the aged evangelist in his autobiography. They met in Pennsylvania, when Mr. Sankey was leader of the choir of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Miss Fanny V. Edwards was one of the si'ngerei