PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 311, 26 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Edmund Burke, who is appearing as Mephistopheles with Madame Melba at Covent Garden Theatre, will accompany her to Australia. Advice is just to hand that the Rev. W. Wooding, 8.A., of London, and Mrs. Wooding (sister of Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister) intend to visit New Zealand in the coming spring. A London cablegram reports that the daughter of the late Sir Joseph Duveen was thrown from her horse while riding in Rotten Row and had her skull fractured. Her condition is serious. The King was riding past at the time and inquired after the sufferer. A cable received from Launceston in Palmerston North yesterday states that Mr. Harry Palmer, a well-known cxPalmerston councillor and captain of the Mounted Rifles, is seriously ill from typhoid fever at tht Launceston hospital. He was returning to Palmerston from a visit to Perth.—Press wire.

Mr. Morris Upton, the well-known representative of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. Upton has represented the proprietary for over 17 years, and this 1 is his third tour of New' Zealand. During that-period this gentleman has also visited South Africa, Java, and the Commonwealth of Australia. The marvellous growth of Woods' Cough Cure may be guaged from the fact that in Australia alone last year 210,000 bottles were sold.

Bishop Julius, who met with a motorcar accident a few days, informed a Christchurch Press representative that lie was making very good progress towards recovery, his chief trouble, however, being a broken rib. . .Mrs. Julius, on the other hand, was still very feeble, and was suffering severely from shock. She was very mueh bruised and shaken, and a collar-bone was broken. At present Mrs. Julius was in a private hospital at Tiinami, and lie hardly knew when it would be possible for her to return to Christchurch.

Mr. Hector Mac Lean, M.A., M.Sc., ol Otago University, at present a student of the United Free Church Divinity College, Glasgow, and late of Eltham, has recently completed a three months engagement as locum tenens at Belmoni United Free Church, Glasgow. This pulpit is one of the most notable in the West End of Glasgow. Mr. Mac Lean had to preach on one Sabbath in each month, and exchange on the other Sabbaths with visiting ministers. He had to conduct the weekly prayer meeting, and do the pastoral work of the congregation. He has engaged to spend "the summer as assistant to one of the ministers of the city of Inverness.