PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 261, 25 March 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. 11. X. Liardet,. general manager of the Ocean Accident Insurance Company, is on a visit to New PlymouthMembers of the Nganiotu Golf Club are forwarding a presentation to Mr. 11. B. Armitage, a zealous momber or the committee for many years, who last year left New Plymouth for Waiuku.

The Stratford Chamber of Commerce has decided to invite the Dons. T. Mackenzie and J. A. Millar to visit the district, and it is proposed to entertain them at a banquet. It iB probable that the Ministers named will be asked to come on to New Plymouth. A London cable reports that Mr. Richard Haldanc, Minister for War, has been created a Viscount. The new peer was born in 1850, educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge, where he gained his M.A. and L.L.D. degrees, studied law, and entered politics, where he soon distinguished himself, being appointed to his present position in 1005. He is tho author of several important works, and is one of the ablest ntembera of the Ministry. The Hon. T. MacKenzie had a right royal welcome from his constituents at the social they gave him in Mosgiel last week. In the course of his speech he said, "But whatever happened, he did not believe the wiping out of the electorate would wipe him out of Parliament, and if the Taieri sent were notaltered much they could take it from him that he would stick to the seat if the people would have liini." It is probable. Mr. MacKenzie will -be requisitioned' to stand for the Taranaki seat, in the event of his electorate being wiped out. The Hon. Wm. McFarlane, ControllerGeneral of Prisons, and Mr. Hay, Director of Forests, of New South Wales, arrived in Wellington from the north last night. Since they came to the Dominion they have inspected Mt. Eden gaol at Auckland, and the tree plantingcamps at Waiotapu and Waipa, in company with the Under-Secretary of Justice (Mr. F. Waldegrave),. Rev. J. Kayll (Government penologist), and Dr. Hay (Inspector-General of Prisons). The visitors will probably leave for the south on Monday night.-—Press wire.

At the Land Surveyor's Examination, Australia and New Zealand, held this month, 18 New Zealand candidates presented themselves. Of these, Mr. Hugh Montgomery Thompson, Lands and Survey Department, llokitika; Mr. William Prentice Black, Dunedin; Mr. .Joseph Patrick Lnrkin, To Kuiti; Mr. Robert Mitchell Mclvcr, Christchurch; Mr. John Dennis Jack, Wellington; Mr. Harben Robert Young, Assoc. M.lnst.C.E., Westport; Mr. Robert McGregor Hoyvat, Wairoa, Hawke's Ray; and Mr. Roland Evelyn Fry, Auckland, completed their examinations.

The funeral of the late Mrs. J. K. Hill took place at Tc Henui cemetery yesterday afternoon. The cortege was a very lengthy and representative one, testifying to the popularity of the dc- * ceased lady, and the great sympathy felv. for Mr. Hill in his bereavement. Among those following were the chairman and members of the Tamnaki County Council, Charitable Aid Hoard, Agricultural Society (of which bodies Mr. Hill is a member), and the Mayor and member* of the New Plymouth Borough Council. The service at the grave was conducted by the Revs. F. P. Kellow and Chapman.