PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 125, 17 November 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

'A Melbourne cablegram reports the death of Mrs. Waller at the age of 101.

A London cable states that Dr. Marcus Dill and Dr. Whitelaw have been chosen Moderators-elect of the Church of Scotland and the United Church of Scotland respectively.

Major Boyd Wilson, a distinguished Imperial officer, who saw active service in the Soudan and Boer war as a member 'of Thorneycroft's Horse, died at Cambridge o>n Tuesday night (Bays a Press Association telegram from Auckland). A military funeral is bring arranged.

Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., on retiring from the chairmanship of the Napier Harbor Board, was voted fifty guineas with which to purchase a suitable memento of his long association with the board. With this he has purchased a solul silver .tea and coffee service of Queen Anne design. Dr. L. H. Whetter, of Milton, who has been appointed surgeon to Dr. Mawson's Polar Regions Expedition, left Milton yesterday, en route for the Maequarie .Islands, where he will join the, exploration party. Dr. Whetter, who was acting as locum tenens to Dr. McOormack (at present enjoying a trip in the Homeland) is the only' New Zealander in Dr. Mawson's party, which includes scientists and professors from Australia, England, France, and Germany, Sir John Eldon Gorst, lato British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, of Castle Coombe, near Chippenham, who died on July 12th. and whose will and codicil have been proved by his brother-in-law, Major Herbert, and Captain Hunter, left property to the value of £ 12,780 10s 7d, with net personality £10,82*5 6s. He gave money at the bank and stocks and shares, other than those in settlement, to his brother, Harold Edward Gorst, and his sisters Constance Mary Clarkson, Hylda Marion Hunter, and Eva Rachael; and his furniture, pictures, etc., at Castle Coombe are to be heirlooms and held therewith. All othev estate and effects he gives to his wife, whom he married in 1803. Sir John Gorst, who was in his fiftieth year, was born in Xew Zealand in 1801, whilst his father was Civil Commissioner iu the Waikato district. His mother was a daughter of the Rev. Lorenzo Moore, of Christchurch.

General Sir A. R. Dorward arrived in Wellington on Wednesday via Sydney by the Warrimoo on a visit to the Dominion. He has had a long and honorable military career. General Dorward, late on the Stall in Charge of the Administration in South Africa, served in the Afghan war of 1878-80, Burmese Expedition 1885-88, and Chinese Expedition 1900 (being Brigadier-General in command of the British, troops until the arrival of the Indian Contingent). He commanded the British, American, and Russian troops at action near Tientsin on July 9th, and the British, American and Austrian troops at the capture of lientsin city, July, 1900. General Dorward also commanded the allied troops in the defeat of the Boxers near Tientsin in August, and subsequently in the expedition to Tu Lu. He acted «s Commissioner at Wei-hai-wei from August 10th, 1890, to December 10th, 1901, and commanded the troops at Shanghai till June, 1902, and at Straits Settlements from 1903 to 1905. For his services in the Burmese Expedition lie received the thanks of the Government of India and the D.S.O.