PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 292, 4 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Major Mcintosh, of Wellington bat* talion, has resigned his commission. Sir Francis Langelier is the new Gov-ernor-General of Quebec.—Press cable. Major-General Godley, Commander of the Forces, is due back in Wellington from Auckland on Monday. Mr. Robert Fletcher was yesterday unanimously re-elected chairman of the Wellington Harbor Board.—Press Association.

Mr. Wni. Pryor, general secretary to the New Zealand Employers' Federation, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night. Miss J. Butler, M.A., and Mr. F. J. Morgan, M.Se., the new teachers at the Stratford District High School, com* menced their duties yesterday. Mr. W. D. Lysnar, Mayor of Gisbornc, is at present in Wellington regarding some trouble with his eyes, arising through overwork. Three doctors, alter consultation, all agreed that one eye must be removed at once.

A Landon cablegram states thnt Sir Joseph Ward will preside at the dinner to Mr. Harold Tennnnt at the National Liberal Club on May 18th. Mr. Harold Tennant is Parliamentary Secretary to the Hoard of Trade. He 'is a brother-in-law of Great Britain's Premier.

A Gisborno telegram states that Captain Thomas Chrisp, a very old resident, formerly harbor-master at Gisbornc, died last evening, aged 74. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family of four sons and one daughter. One son is Captain E. Chrisp, in the Union Company's service. The late Mr. E. J. Biddiford was born at the Lower Hutt, in 1842, and was the first child baptised by Bishop Sehvyn in New Zealand. He was educated primarily in Wellington, and secondarily at the Scotch College, in Melbourne, 0 f which the father of the famous Pekin correspondent of The Times was principal. He spent his life in farming pursuits, and at the time of his death owned many thousands of acres in various parts of the North Island, including Te Awaite estate, celebrated for the splendid red deer. This estate, which is on the East Const, beyond Cape Palliser. comprises between 50,000 and 00,000 acres. His other estates include the Orongaronga estate (040 acres freehold, and 7000 leasehold), his fine property at Longburn, the Cheltenham estate, the beautiful Kawakawa native bush near Feilding, and 272 acres at Lower Hutt, on ten acres of which his residence is located.

The Dunedin Star, one of the best informed papers in the Dominion, says:— "We should not fie surprised to witness an important development in the course of 1012. Nay, to be frank, we shall he surprised if there is no elmnge. Should the proposal to establish an Imperial Council materialise in operative shape, it is (we think) almost a foregone conclusion that Sir Joseph Ward would be one of the first members of the new body, and with that position it would be natural for him to associate the High Commissionership of the Dominion. Even in the very unlikely event of a change of Government, it in probable that considerations of partisanship would be waived, and that Parliament (however composed) and people would unite in choosing Sir Joseph as the most fit representative of New Zealand in the Council of the Empire. His past services, his special' knowledge and ability, and the noble pattern of his sagacious patriotism would servo as irresistible recommendations."