PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 197, 29 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The King of Norway haa joined Queen Maud at Sandringhani. A Paris cablegram states that King Alfonso, of Spain, has undergone a slight throat,operation at Bordeaux. The death is announced, at the age of 70, of Mrs. Ellen Cronin, a wellknovfti resident, who had lived in Waganui for forty years. Mr. J. M. E. Garrow, of Dunedin, has accepted the appointment of professor of English and New Zealand lawjat the Victoria College, Wellington. ' i Mr. J. T. Mannix, the newly-elected representee for West Ward, took hif> seat for the first time on the Borough Council last evening at a meeting of the Works Committee after signing the usual declaration. ■; Mr. P. Goyen, chief inspector of the Otago Education Board, on the eve of his retirement from that position, was on Friday evening presented with a gold watch by the members of the Otago Educational Institute, in appreciation of his forty years' service to the cause of education. The death is announced, in a Press Association cable message from London, of the Very Rev. Dr. Macgregor, of St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, aged seventy-eight. Deceased has been Chap. lain-an-Ordinary to the King in Scotland, and senior minister of St. Cuthbert's since 1873. He visited New Zealand and Australia in 1889, and was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of .Scotland in 1891.