PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 16 September 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

'Mr. >F. .lone-, district railway engineer, was in town yesterday. The appointment of .Mr. Ambrose Millar as Consul of Peru at Auckland lias been provisionally recognised .by Ilia Excellency the (lovernor. M. Eugene Ossipoff, who left Wellington for San Francisco in July, returned by the Aorangi yesterday, en route to Sydney, lie has secured a good engagement in America, and will probably leave for America again next month. Cabled advice from Hamburg reports the death of Mr. Isaac Hallenatcin ia his eighty-second year. lie was the eldest and only sunning .brother of the firm of I l:iHen-trin liros., well known in New Zealand drapery sale.—Press Association. A London cablegram =tate« that Sir (1. Ueid has recovered from hU broken arm suflieiently to actively resume his duties. The other members of his family who were injured have all recovered from the eil'ccts of the motor accident.

The Officer Commanding the l?oyal Military College, Australia, has informed the New Zetland Defence authorities that he has promoted Cadet W. A. Jennings, one of the ten New Zealand cadets at the College, to be a non-com-missioned officer.

The Mayor (.Mr. W. P. Jenkins), Councillors ltaltenbury and Brabant, Messrs. Dowsett (engineer) and Buchanan (town clerk), of Waitara, are passengers by thin morning's train for Wellington to wait: on the Minister for Public liorks in reference to matters in connection with the erection of the new bridge.

The death has occurred at Onehunga of Mr. Thomas Holland, aged 101 years. He was horn at Easton-on-thc-Hill, Northamptonshire (England), and arrived in Auckland in 1.854. Shortly after lo>nding, Mr. Holland, 'who was a farmer', went to Waiuku, and' there for nearly fifty years he was foreman on the Underwood Estate, lie was stationed at the Waiuku township throughout the Maori war as a volunteer under Major Speedy. Every day it was necessary to send despatches to Drury, and for months Mr. Holland braved the dangers of the intervening country, and was successful in carrying the papers to their destination. —Press Association.

feome weeks ago a cablegram from London referred to the decoration of Emilia Branscom<be Wood, of Paris, by the French Government. That lady, who in her girlhood figured as a brilliant Sydney pianist from Henri Kowalski's studio, eventually visited Europe to study singing, made headway ns a teacher in Paris, and ultimately acquired Jean de Reszke's system, to the expressed satisfaction of the great tenor. She now writes (says a Sydney contemporary) to explain that the honor arose from a hook on "Voice Production," published by her in 11)00. This work was accepted by the Aeadeniio des 'Science, which recommended the French Government to create the author an Officer d'Academie, entitling her to wear "the purple ribbon of the order by day, and for evening dress the diamond and ruby palms"—as Miss Wood expresses herself in a letter dated London, July 20.