PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 255, 5 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Hine, of Te Kultl,'s are on a visit to New Plymouth. £i Mr. L. Hansen, of the Dairying Divf*'? sion, is on a visit to New Plymouth. * A Vienna cablegram states that tb*;M Emperor Francis Joseph, who has been I '% indisposed, is now better. „ : 1 The estate of the late Hon. H. Scot* ; * land was proved at £14,533, and that- 1 * of the late Taare Waitara at £16,518. 'j Mr. Thomas Nevell Digby, a very old 3) resident of Ashburton, died on Xew,:St Year's morning, at the age of abctst. » three. * * The Hon. Cyril Ward, a brothel 1 of'J Lord Dudley (Governor-General of AIM->J tralia), arrived in Auckland by the Mv.d heno from Sydney on Sunday. f% Mrs. Joseph Moss, of Momohakf, 1 Patea, died yesterday at the age of 65. >h Deceased was an old settler, and leave* ™ three sons and three daughters. ,'1 Mr. C. A. Budge, county clerk at Ha.\l wera, with Airs. Budge, has been spend-."| ing his Christmas vacation in New PJy-1 mouth, and returned home yesterday. S Mr. Millington and his wife, who have/I been on a short holiday to their oWte home at New Plymouth, returned ye»ter-rJ day to Wanganui en route to ton. ;y TI Mr. J. K. Logan, 1.5.0., Supertote*'|i dent of Electric, Lines, retired from tbf-jiu Public Service on December 31, aftera! nearly 40 years' work. He joined InfM 1865 at Dunedin. 1 Before leaving Auckland, Mr. A. "Py Jf Dryden, who has succeeded Mr. as chief postmaster at New Piymontosd| was presented with ah illuminated ad-tjj dress by the members of the staff. -,'".i!a

Mr. G. H. F. Rolleston, British Commissioner in New Zealand, was irajjfl town yesterday. He leaves by the »SglM press this morning for the south, aqdjgfH will sail for England in about a for^^^H Mr. Onslow West, of New PlymouthJiH has been selected from among a number of applicants as a clerk in office of Messrs. Hatrick and Co. M&iflH West, who will be associated with tbi'&H Waitara office, commenced his dutief>t|M Mr. Stuart Deacon, brother of Olave Deacon, of New Plymouth, hM§|B just been appointed Stipends ry M*gii§||H tratc of Liverpool. The Liverpool which publishes a sketch of his Pare&fflH and his portrait, says that the eil.i all its interests are to be on his appointment to the position Stipendiary Magistrate, adding that he & man of conspicuous ability, of ful intellect, of deep moral feeling, of serious humanity. ['di^H Sir. W. J. Lyne, ex-Treasurer of Australian Commonwealth, who from Sydney by the Maheno at land on Sunday, intends to remain a fortnight in New Zealand. He it certain of his movements, the purpose his visit being purely to recruit health, which has not been very factory for some time past. Sir is a Tasmanian, and hopes that mate of New Zealand, which is to that of Tasmania, will complete Ut^^H

HoTne papers report the death of Kipling, mother of Mr. Rudyard KiplingSlM at the Gables, Thbury, Wiltshire. £%jfS was Miss Alice Macdonald, one of thfjJiJH remarkable daughters of the lata George B. Macdonald, whose house, Wine iH forty-five years ago, was a well-knotflj,,' JH centre of an artistic and literarj .<fals»H She married Mr. John Lockwood ling, CLE., in 1803, the year ot M».*g|ifl pointment as architectural scubptw • the Bombay School of Art. One of sisters was married to Sit E. Jones, and another, who markedEdward Poynter, died in 1900. . ■,".' i^H One of the oldest, if not the Voortrekkcrs of South Africa AU passed away at Volksrust, Natal, person of Dirk Mys, who was the battle of the Blood- River .in cember 1838, when the Impis of King of the Zulus, were the band of Dutchmen who had into Natal from the Orange Free His brother, Piet Mys, was Zululand when attacking capital in 1838, an occasion memorable by the gallant his brother's body made by Mys, who fell covered with' A^mß^l

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Prim* ter of Canada, who celebrated ninth birthday last month, "Canada," held the position °f .JHHHH longer thain any u British, for over a century, and year has added to the prominMOtlSH his personality in the affairs of the a<w&H pire, as well as of the Dominion. T$S fact that he comes of French-CMadlajrM stock, and is almost as eloquent ,AjWttH tor in the English language as he fo"&fl the French, has always appealed <>P9&9 ally to the people of the Old OQWtHJH His debut in the Quebec LegUUtttrVfflß 1871, as member for Drummond ;«w|B Atbabaska, is said by the Globe to have "produced a sensation more by the finished grace of torical abilities than by the boldness authority, with which he deepest political problems." J^fil^H