PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 119, 10 November 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. Macintosh 8011, late fiovernment Geologist, will, at. the ensuing winter Mtsipre of the RovaJ Geographical cietv, read a paper on "An Unknown Corner >of New Zealand."

A cnble message from London states that Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, formerly M l', for Canterbury, the enthusiastic advocate of cheap postal and telegraphic communication, is returning to Australia.

Joseph Smith, head of the Mormons whose death is just reported, was within a. lew days of completing his -cvenlyIhirdg'enr, having bten born on November l,i, lfi,W, liii a iu.p| low .losepli Smith, the Mormon prophet,. It i» said that he drove mi ox team in the exodus of 1640 to Winter Quarters, on the .Missouri. He croscd the plains,'mul drove an ox-team t 0 Salt Lake Valley in IS-18, and worked as a manual laborer from I«4S to 1854. From 15."54 to |S."jB he was a mi-.sionary to the Sandwich Islands, lie was made high prie<t ind member of the High Council on October. 10, 1858. lie afterwards engaged a< missionary to Great Britain, the European Continent, and the Sandwich Island*, and was ordained apostle in ISOO. lie tilled other high olliccs in the Mormon tihurch and .was president of the church mihc th,' the death of Lorenzo Snow in 11)01. Ho was several times a member of thu Salt Lake Council and of the Utah Legislatuie. He pnsided over the convention which, in 1882, framed a constitution for the State of Utah, and petitioned Congress for_ admission into the Union. He. wjis president of several commercial and industrial enterprises in Utah, and editor of ;> number of publications.