PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 45, 15 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram announces that Sir Samuel Walker, Lord Chancellor' of Ireland, is dead.

The Pa,tea News chronicles the death of Mr. R, Horner, at the ripe age of 90 years. The deceased is survived by four sons and one daughter.

Messrs, J. Sole, George Corciev and W. Yates (Union S;S. Co., Westport) were amongst the passengers per s.s. Rarawa last night for Auckland.

Now 'that Taieri electorate is cut out, it is pretty certain that the Hon. T. McKcnzie will accede to the request of an influential and numerous section of the Patea electors to offer his services for thai seat. In this case, Mr. P. O'Dea, the Liberal candidate, it is understood, will retire in his fawr , 4 peculiarity of the position is that prominent Oppositionists are supporting the candidature of the Minister.

The friends of Mr. George F. Brodie, who had to throw up his position -of subeditor on our local contemporary on account of ill-health, will be gratified to learn that he is now making some recovery. He was threatened with consumption, and for months past has been living the Sitnple- life iff a tent at Waikmo, between Paeroa and Waihi. It has been a long fight,, but. there is now every prospect that he shake off the draid' disease jjn exchange). An interesting visitor to is M. Kolvert Cliauvelot, a distinguished Parisian journalist, who ft iff Australia on belmlf of his ' papera* v s,'Echo de Paris*' and "La is taking the world's touxjajid has already re-visited"-Iftaa and "Cfylon, and paid first visits to Java, (Singapore, Japan, the Philippines and Papua, spending a long period in the last-mentioned territory. When in Papua he secured a valuable ethnological collection, which he intends to present to the National Museum at the Trocadero, Paris. Mr. Bert" AYhitcombe, who lias been for thirteen years on Mr. Xewton King's Xew Plymouth stall', has entered into partnership with Mr. I{. F. Cornwall. On Saturday evening Mr. S. W. Shaw, on behalf of Mr. Whitcombe's fellW employees, presented him with a gold watch chain, and on behalf of John Avery, Ltd., with a handsome silver cigarette case. Mr. Shaw expressed the firm's appreciation of Mr. Whitcombe's services, and their regret that he was severing his connection with it, at the same time wishing him every prosperity in his new sphere. Mr. -Whitcombe suitably returned thanks.

Madame Melba has arrived in Melbourne, travelling overland from Adelaide, in order to get into toueh with the preparations for the .grand opera season at the earliest possible moment. She will be followed at an interval of a couple of days by Mr. John McCormack, who has chosen the Cape route by the Thermistoclcs, while the rest of the principals will arrive the week following. The diva is bringiug out her chef and other servants to the house secured for her at Piose Bay, where Mile. Axarine, who shares soprano honors with her in the same kind of roles, will be the guest of the star. Hundreds of people are (says a Sydney contemporary) coming over for the September opera season from Xew Zealand, Fiji, Brisbane and Adelaide.