PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 188, 28 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. Norman Lang, brother of the Archbishop of York, lias been appointed Bishop of Leicester.

Xews has been received in Wanganui that Master Haydn Beck lias been admitted to the Brussels Conservatorium of Music.

An old colonist in the person of Mrs. Ihirrell, aged 7(5 .years, passed peacefully away at Petone on Thursday. Two of her sons are Messrs. T. and W. Ilurrell. of Hawfera.

The Rev. F. B. Oowx, of Waipawa, is going to England to study for the medical profession. The Rev. M. Thomas, of Palmoreton Xorth, is also going in for the medical profession.

The Rev. Father Bergin, of Manaia, has been seriously ill and receiving medical attention during the last few days, but was stated to be somewhat better on Monday (says the Witness). A cable states that the King attended the distribution of food to the tenantry of Sandringhani on Tuesday evening. A slight chill prevented his participation in Wednesday's function. He is recovering. A later message states:—'it is officially stated that the King is well again." Mr. Talbov, manage;' of the Wanganui tramways, accompanied bv his wife, has been spending his holidays in Xew Plymouth, lie returned to Wanganui last night. While in Xew Plymouth Mr. Talboy visited the new works at the Mangorei power-house and also looked over the proposed tramway route.

The appointment of Venerable Archdeacon /Brodie. V.G.. as domestic, prelate of His Holiness the Pope, is announced, with the title of "Rev. Monsignore." A dinner in honor of the occasion was given by Bishop Cleary at Auckland on Christmas evening to" the R'oman 'Catholic clergy.—Press Association.

The death occurred somewhat suddenly on Boxing Night of Air. Hector A. Maclean, ;tn old and respected I'e.sidcnt of New Plymouth, at the ripe ago of 77 \cais. During the Maori \A'ui- he wafi associated with the commissariat department. He leaves a wife and three sons, Messrs. Archibald (Taihape), Herbert. (New Plymouth), and Charles (Waitara). The only daughter, Mrs. F. Pin.fion, died a few years ago.

Mr. Sidney Edward Greville Smith, a well-known journalist, died at Hamilton on Tuesday morning, of heart disease. At various times he was connected with the North fttago Times, the Waikato Times, the Marlborough Times, and the New Zealand Times, besides a number of Australian journals. Of late years he held a contrePlng interest in * the Te Arolm Mail, of which he was editor at the time of his death, lie was 57 years of age. (aptan Oswald Otto Miller died on November 18th at his home at Staten Island, New York. He was born in Denmark seventy-three years ago, and was the noil of an officer in the Danish Customs service. Captain Miller was an officer on a French transport during the Crimean war, and his vessel was in India at the time of the Indian mutiny. During the American Civil War Captain Miller was in the British merchant service, and was the master of a ship that was captured by the Confederate privateer Alabama. ''

The Hon. R. 11. Rhodes, PostmasterGeneral, seen respecting a cable message referring to the visit of Mr. Fraser, Commonwealth Postmaster-General, to New Zealand, stated that his information was that Mr. Fraser would leave Sydney on Saturday and arrive in Wellington next week. It is Mr. Eraser's intention to discuss with Mr. Rhodes a number of questions of common interest to the Commonwealth and New Zealand. Amongst these will be the rate charged bv the Atlantic Cable Co. for message* reaching Australasia via the Pacific, the establishment ami equipment of Pacific wireless stations, and the installation of automatic telephones.

Dr. Cockayne. F.R.S., has received the Hector Memorial Medal, which was awarded to him for his researches in botanical ecology and would have been presented at the jubilee of the Philosophical Institute but for the. fact that it had not arrived from England. Dr. Cockayne (says the Lvttclton Times), is the first recipient of the medal, which will be awarded annually in future v to the scientist doing the best research work iu New Zealand in his particular branch. It will be awarded next year for chemistry, and it will be nine years before it will be again given for botanical ecology. The medal is very handsomely designed in copper. On one side is a representation of a Maori snaring huias. In the background is a lake with a canoe on it, and over the head of the Maori is a fern tree and New Zealand llax. -Science is represented by a geological hammer, a globe with the southern cross on it, chemical retorts and a pair of compasses. On the other side is a head of the scientist in memory of whom it is presented.