PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 3, 28 June 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Sybella Tolmc, of New Plymouth, has passed the nurses' registration examination.

The Rev." 11. J. Wentbrooke, F.G.S., Presybterian, has resigned the Methven charge owing to ill -health.—Press Association;

Sir Jolin Anderson, Governor 0/ the Straits Settlements, has been appointed Permanent Under-Secretary to the Colonies.—Press cable.

; An Ottawa cablegram states that it is reported that Sir William Whyte, who has just been knighted, may succeed Lord Strathcona as High Commissioner for Canada in London.

! A Press Association telegram states that Mr. Robert C. L. Reay, a wellknown surveyor in the Auckland district in the cariy days of the Maori war, died in the Wairoa Hospital on Saturday morning, aged seventy-two years. Mr. J. Hammond, the New Zcalandboni airman, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis at Palmerston North, is making very satisfactory progress towards recovery, but it will be some time before he is able to be about again.

A cable message from Adelaide announces the death of Mr. William Strawbridge, Surveyor-General of the State of South Australia. He was born at Bristol in 1843, and went to Australia in 1852. In 1005 he was made a member of the Imperial Service Order. Another of the pioneers of Taranaki passed away at Ingle wood 011 Monday night in the poison of Mr. James Harvey, who was lx>rn on board the Essex, on the out from Home, on October 23, TR42, and arrived here on January' 23.j1843, lie being just three, months old.

The death is announced of ex-Inspector Buckley, of the New -Zealand police force. Deceased, after serving in the Canterbury provincial police, reached the rank of Inspector at Invercargill. He retired about twenty years ago, mid had since followed farming pursuits at Hook, South Canterbury, where his death occurred.

Princess Clo'tilde, whose death was reported from Rome yesterday, was born in 1843, and was the widow of Prince Napoleon, son of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon the Great. She was married in 1850, and was the mother of Prince Napoleon Victor, the present head of the Bonaparte family. She was « princess of the House of Savoy, daughter of Victor Emmanuel, the flrst King of United Italy, and resided at the Chateau of Montealieri, near Turin.

A year or two ago Mr. "'Willie" 'Kenny, son of Mr. H. Eyre Kenny, of Xew. Plymouth, was appointed Senior Warden of Mines under the Federated Malay States Government. Discussing his last annual report, the Perak Pioneer says: "Whim Mr. Kenny's appointment was lirst announced there was a bit of a grumble, as Mr. Kenny had no mining experience, lie started life a* an engineer and has also done some soldiering in Xew Zealand, but neither in that colony nor in Sarawak afterwards and the Straits Settlements next, did he handle a pick and shovel, or sec it done. But those who were responsible for his selection knew what they were about, and no one can deny now that the appointment has licen fully justified. If there were any doubts on this point a glance through the report now before us is sure to dispel them. It is a report written after our own heart, used as we are to elaborate ones in the olden days, and shows a grasp of the subject and a knowledge of the business that goes to prove that Mr. Kenny was cut out for the Warden's post, and that he mistook his vocation when he took to supervising building on land, instead of superintending burrowing under it, for the long time he has been engaged in it."

Lord Denman, who is to succeed Lora Dudley as Governor-General of Australia, is looked upon by his party as one of the most promising of the comparatively small band of young Liberal peers. Ambitious, clever," a convincing speaker, and decidedly serious-minded, lie has gone far in the thirtv-seven rear? be has lived—and, all being well, he will go fartlieT yet. It is ju-'t seventeen years since, as a boy of twenty, lie succeeded his great uncle, the second baron, as Lord-in-Wait-ing to King George. As Governor-Genera.! of Australia he will receive a salary of £IO,OOO, but there is, of course, a great deal of entertaining, etc., to be done with tho money. His famous ancestor, the first Lord Denman, shared with Brougham the honor of defending Queen Caroline, the badly-treated queen of George IV. His wife. Lady Denman, is very well-known in society, for even before her marriage she often helped her mother, Lady Cowdrav, to entertain. Before her marriage in 11)03 she was Miss Gertrude Pearson, only daughter of the great engineer and multi-millionaire, then Sir Vcctman Pearson, now Lord Cowdray. Lndv Denman is a very rich woman, and the owner of many beautiful jewels. Amongst the-> i-s a rope of four hundred perfect pearls, each one of j which, it is said, is worth £l.">o. Lord and Lady Denman have two children, a son born in 1905, and a daughter now four years old.