PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 71, 10 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

] The death has occurred at Levin of a very old resident, Mr. L. .Tohnson, aged seventy-seven years. He was formerly a schoolmaster. Mr. Robert Walker, A.M.1.M.E., of Belmont, who has been transferred by the Public. Works Department to Xcw' Plymouth, arrived last evening. , Sir Robert Stout, Messrs. ,1. R.- Blair, F. G. Ewington. (!. Fenwiek, and W. Reeve have been appointed official visitors to the prisons of the Dominion. { The Wanganui Borough Council last night narrowed the applications for the position of borough engineer down to Messrs.' Fox and Sta'veley, of Christchurch, and Mr. Hursthouse, of Xapier. A selection will be made on Thursday. The Hon. V. M. B. Fisher has received the following letter from Mr. W. Wason, of Melbourne, secretary of the People's Liberal Party (the Victorian Liberal Party):—"lamdesired by my executive to convey to you their hearty congratulations upon your attainment of the important office of Minister for Customs and Marine in the Government of Xew Zealand. My executive has many grateful recollections of the magnifiiient ser- . vices rendered by yon iu this State and Commonwealth during your visit here, in connection with the recent anti-referenda campaign, and it is consequently with the greatest pleasure that they have learned of your having been called upon to fill so important an office in the service of your J country, and the duties connected with which your splendid talents will enable you to discharge with general satisfaction."

The Earl of Liverpool is in ;i wav descended from that Earl ef Liverpool who commenced a fifteen years' Premiership just a. century ago. The Comptroller of the Household is a greatgrandson of the sin Iranian's half-bro-ther, who was the third and last holder of the earldom of (hat creation. The title became extinct upon the hitter's death in 1851. but seven years ago it was revived in favor of the present peer's father. Unlike the late peer, who spent several years in the House of Commons before becoming a Household official, Lord Liverpool did not figure at Westminster until he succeeded to the title. Before serving in the South African campaign he had acted as aide-de-camp to Lord Cadogan while the latter "was Viceroy of Treland. and before his appointment to his present position he spent two years as Slate Steward and Chamberlain to the Earl of Aberdeen at Dublin Castle.