PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 4, 29 June 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lord Balcarrcs is doing whip's work in , the House of Commons.—Press cable. There was magnificent weather for tho King's garden party at Buckingham Palace, and 0000 guests were present. Sister Mary Michael, who has been a nun at St. Bride's Convent, Masterton, for the past ten years, died yesterday, states a Press wire. A press- message states that the ladies of New South Wales have presented Lady Dudley with a portrait ol herself, by Longstaff, as a farewell, souvenir. • Mr. Arthur H. D. R. Steel-Maitland, M.P. for East Birmingham, succeeds Captain Sir A. F. Acland-Hood, M.P. for Somerset, as chief organiser of the Conservative Party—Press cable. Mrs. Keogh, the mother of the Itev. Father Keogh, of Hastings, is one of the few who have lived under five liritis.li Sovereigns (says <a- Hawko's Bay ex change;. She was born in 182!), a'year before the death of George TV. She'was under two years of age at the Coronation of William IV.; about eight vears of age at the Coronation of Queen Victoria: about 72 years when King Edward ascended the throne, and now, nt the age of S2 years, she is still hale and hcartv to witness the accession of King George V. Mrs. Keogh resides with her son, ami never a Sunday passes that does not see her in lier own pew j n tho church. : Mention was made at the Victoria College (Wellington) capping ceremony by llr. C. Wilson, chairman of Victoria College Council, of a number of college students who are doing well in the outside world. ]). Jenness, M.A. (first-class honors in classics and Jacob Joseph scholarship), went to Oxford, where he took up anthropology, and has been appointed research student. He is npcompanying an expedition to New Guinea. Miss C. H. Taylor, of the Chemistry Department, has completed three years' research work, and proceeds, to Newnham College. Her thesis will be included in the Journal of the Chemical Society. She wins the free passage offered by the Orient Steamship Company. P, W. Burbidge (Physical Department) research scholarship holder, takes up the subject of radioactivity at the New Zealand University. A. B. Fitt, M.A. (Psychological Department, and a former Jacob Joseph scholarship winner), is going to Lcipsic to study psychology and education (also a free passage by the Orient Company).