PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 10, 6 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The London ißjy Telegraph mentions Lord Kitchener W;Sir Uldon Gorst's successor in Egypt* His powers would be increased to ilicmde the Soudan. A Sydney trim reports the deatli of Mrs. Clarke, I.wife of the secretary of the Independent Order of Oddfellows,and formerly Mayor of St. Kilda, Dunedin, and town clerk of South Dunedin. A London cable' states that the sister of Mr. A. Fisher,- the Commonwealth Premier, married Constable George Gait, of the Liverpool police. Mr. Fisher gavo his sister away and accompanied the couple to Kilmarnock. The death is recorded of an old Thames pioneer, Mrs. Elizabeth Ensor, who passed away at the advanced age of i)li. Her husband predeceased her by 22 years. The old lady died on the anniversary of her husband's death. M. Eugene Ossipoff will arrive in Sew Plymouth this evening on a visit to the district. He will remain here for about a week, and arrangements have been made whereby he will give two concerts, oil July 13th and 14th. Yesterday the Governor and the Hon. T. McKenzie motored through the Waimate Plains. At Kaupokonui the party were shown over the factory, and at Manaia the Governor was presented with an address of welcome.

Major Johnson (39th Company Uoyal Garrison Artillery, Plymouth) who had previously served three years in the New Zealand defence forces, arrived from London by the Tongariro, to take up the duties of Director of Ordnance and Commander of the Permanent Ar' tillery in the Dominion. Sergeant* Parks (Grenadier Guards) and Wdodhead (West Yorks), who have been appointed drill instructors, were passengers by the same steamer. A London correspondent report# that Mr. J. S. Fox, of Okato, who left Auckland by the Moldavia in mid-March, is now on a visit to his native place, Arbroath, Scotland, having gone thither direct on leaving the Moldavia at Plymouth. After spending another month or «b in Scotland, Mr. Fox will devote a few weeks to a business tour of the chief trade centres of the Old Country. He returns to Scotland for the balance of his holiday, which will end with the departure of the Macedonia for New Zealand on August 25.

Sir Charles Gordon, Bart., whose death was recently announced rom Sydney, was the holder of a Scottish title, although for the greater part of his life lie had been resident in Sydney. He died' at the age of seventy-six, having only succeeded to the title some few years previously. The Gordons of Earlston are a branch of the "Gay Gordon" clan, famous in Scottish song and story. Such, names as Lord Lochinvar and Viscount Kenmure may be cited in this connection. Sir Charles Gordon was too strongly attacned to his Australian home t». leave it when he inherited hi& estatcin Scotland.