PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 144, 14 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Madrid cablegram reports that Queen Ena has been accouched of a daughter. A Sydney cable reports the death last night of Mr. R. A. Duff, a prominent international cricketer, who had been ailing for some time. A Wellington telegram reports that the Rhodes Scholarship Committee today selected Alan Wallace, Auckland, as the Rhodes scholar for 1912.-

Senior-Sergeant Dart left by the mail train this morning on a short visit to Wellington. During his absence De-tective-Sergeant Boddam will be in charge.

A Fremantle cablegram states that Mr. Havelock Wilson, of the Seamen's Federation, is a passenger by the Orama. He is proceeding to Rotorua for health reasons, and will afterwards address meetings in Australia. Mr. L. Blanchett was the recipient of a barometer from the employees of the New Plymouth Sash and Door Company on the eve of his marriage on Tuesday. The presentation was made by the manager, Mr. J. Austin, ami suitably acknowledged by Mr. Blanchett. The Rev. F. Tubman, vicar of Mackay, North Queensland, has been appointed principal of the All Saints' Grammar School, East St. Kilda, Melbourne. Mr. Tubman is an M.A. and B.Sc. of New Zealand University, and holds the A certificate of the New Zealand Education Department. The school is attached to the parish of All Saints', of which Bishop Crossley was vicar until his consecration in April last. The famous botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.8., G.C.5.1., K.C.5.1.. 0.M., M.D., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.E.S., F.L.S.', whose death was recorded yesterday, was a retired surgeon of the Royal Navy. He was born in 1817, and educated at a high school and the University of Glasgow. He was surgeon and naturalist on H.M.S. Erebus in the Antarctic Expedition under Sir James Ross, 1839-43; visited as a naturalist the Himalaya Mountains, Eastern Bengal, the Khasia Mountains, etc; .Syria and Palestine, Morocco and the Greater Atlas, and the Rocky Mountains and California. In 1855 he became assistant-director 'of the Royal Gardens at Kew, and director in 1855, resigning in 1885. From 1872 to 1877 he was president of the Royal Society. His publications include:: "Botany of the Antarctic Expedition," "Handbook of New Zealand Flora," "Himalayan Journal," '•.Students' British Flora," "The Flora of British India," "The Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya. Morocco, and the Great Atlas" (with J. Ball, F.R.S.).