PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 11, 7 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cablegram from Rome reports the death at Turin of Queen Maria Pio, of Portugal. Sir Jamea Carroll was present last evening at a social given in Timaru by Mr. J. Craigio, M.P., to his election committee, sayw a press wire. A London press message reports that Mr. Fisher has been presented with a silver casket containing the freedom ol the borough of Kilmarnock. Mr. Chas. B. Littlejolm, Rhodes scholar, has secured first-class honors in the science schools at Oxford. He is a son of a former headmaster of Nelson College, and is a Victorian Rhodes scholar.

A Sydney cable reports the death of the Hon. John Mcintosh, M.L.C., of New South Wales, at the age of 91. He sat in the Lower House for 16 years, and was a member of the Legislative Council for thirty years.

Cabled advice has been received that a son of Mr. Alfred Isaacs, of Dunedin, has gained a sub-professorship at the Royal Academy, London; also the Macfarren scholarship, tenable for three years, beside the Frederick Westlake scholarship.

News is to hand from Christchurch of the death of Mr. L. E. Selig, of Astoria, Oregon, U.S.A., second son of the late Rev. B. A. Selig, of Wellington. Deceased, who is a brother of Mr. P. Selig, of Christchurch, was attached for many years to the editorial staff of the Astoria Budget.

The death is announced of Mr. Geo. Buckeridge, who was well-known in Eltham (says the Argus). Mr. Buckeridge arrived in New Zealand in 1854, landing at Nelson, where he took the position of foreman printer on the staff of the Nelson Examiner. He was also at one time on the staff of the Wellington Evening Post, and was likewise on the Nelson Colonist. He was at one time resident in Eltham and left there about ten years ago for Kawhia, where he passed away on Wednesday in his 80th year.