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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 108, 27 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. M. G. Williams has joined the reporting staff of the Taranaki Herald.

A Vienna cablegram reports that tho Emperor of Austria is suffering from a chill. °

A Sydney cablegram reports that .the condition of Mr. Donald McDonnell, Chief Secretary in the New South Wales Ministry, who has been ill in Melbourne for some months, is serious. Mr. David C. Low, the well-known Christchurch black-and-white artist, leaves Wellington to take up work on the stall' of the Sydney Bulletiu. Temporarily he will take' the place of Mr. Alee. Vincent, and after that he will be engaged on general work for the Lone Hand and Bulletin. Mr. Low is only twenty-one years of age, but he has already had considerable experience of black-and-white art as connected with journalism.

Mr. D. Jenness, of Balliol College, Oxford, arrived in Wellington from London on Wednesday, en route to British New Guinea, on a scientific expedition organised by the University of Oxford. His headquarters will be onGoodenough Island, which is said to be the highest island of its size in the world. The interior has never been explored. Mr. Jenness will endeavor to enlist the services of the natives to assist him in his work, which is chiefly anthropological.

Mr. Alexander Low died at his residence, Eosneath, on Tuesday at the age of sixty years. He was one of the. most prominent men in the New Zealand drug trade. Originally landing in Dnnedin with his brother, he entered Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.'s employ ag storoman. Later he became shipping clerk for the firm, and, through his ability, was appointed manager of the Wellington branch. Mr. Low afterwards joined Sharland and Co., leaving that firm to take over the management and organisation of Young's Chemical Com-' pany, with which firm he was connected when his death took place.