PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 276, 12 April 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Marx, of Mangiitoki, will be a candidate at the New Plymouth Harbor Board elections. | The Government has appointed Mr. J. D. Gillies, of Greymouth, engineer to the Greymouth Harbor Board. The appointment was made out of a number of applicants. A London cablegram states that the Hon. Victor Hood will be Lord Denman's chamberlain, and Captain Viscount Bury, of the Scots Guards, will be his aide-de-camp. Sergeant Dart, who is to have charge of the New Plymouth police station during the absence of Sergeant Haddrel!, arrived by the express train last night, and* is staying at the Grosvenor Hotel. Mr. G. W. Hartnell, a sitting member of the Borough Council, for the East Ward, in response to repeated requests from ratepayers, has consented to nomination in the forthcoming municipal elections. Dr. R. T. G. Aickin, of Auckland, hasbeen appointed resident medical officer at the Napier Hospital, and Mr. and Mrs, W. Hickens, of Hamilton, have been appointed master and matron of the OKI Peoples' Home.—Press Association. At the meeting of the Taranaki Agricultural Society last night it was resolved to forward a letter to Mr. J. R. ! Hill, for many years a member of the.,,. ■committee, expressing the sympathy pf '\ the members of the society in his. be- £•"' rcavement. ~."■' Messrs. W. T. Jennings and H. Ofceyy'" M's.P., have accepted the invitation oT * the Auckland Railway League to join theparty which leaves Auckland on Easter , Monday for a trip of a week's dam*, tion, to Waihi, Katikati, Tauranga, Opo« tiki, and then across country to Roto* i rua. A London cablegram reports thai Sir Alfred Lyall died suddenly while *'\ guest of Lord Tennyson, at the M»'.' of Wight. Sir Alfred Lyall was a dia-" tinguished Indian civilian, who w&» Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Wart , Provinces, and Member of the Council of State for India. He wrote on Indian sttb- : jects and biographies of Warren, Hast-' ings, Tennyson and Lord Dufferin. Lord Denham, Australia's new Govern-or-General, is a remarkably good-looking ;„■ man, but he is far from rich, having in-j heritcd little beyond the title from Ma.'" grand-uncle. Lord Denham's father-in-* law, Lord Cowdray, is enormously W*aW thy, and is a prominent figure in the/ Liberal ranks. The pew Governor-Gen-eral achieved distinction in the Boer "■ war, and was wounded in action. Sine* 1008 he has been variously a Chief Whip in the House of Lords, Lord-in-Waiting to? the King, Captain of the Gentlemen a*, Arms, and Privy Councillor, additionally; representing the Irish Office and thfi Treasury in the House of Lords.