PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 190, 31 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. H. J. Lewis is relieving at Waverley. Miss Olive 'May, a Gaiety girl, has been married to Lord Victor Paget, states a London cablegram. Mr. Frank Foote, first, assistant at Pnlmerston North High School, lias been appointed headmaster of Gisborne High School, states a Gisborne Press Association telegram. There were 28 applications.

M. Edouard Mnller has been elected President of Switzerland. He was born in 1848, and was formerly in the army, witli the rank of colonel, but had more recently been chief of the Department of Justice and Police. In politics the new President is a Radical.

A Hawera Press Association message announces the death of Mr. Henry AVilliam Sutton, at the age of 73 years. For many years deceased was associated with Hawera and the surronding district. He took a prominent part in local government affairs, and served several years as mavor.

The death is announced of Mr. William Todd, t'lie well-known auctioneer, aged 70. Mr. 'Todd arrived in Invercargill in 18(13 and was licensed as an auctioneer by the Provincial Council in 1805. He took part in the West Coast rush, and for three successive years he Mas Mayor of Hokitika. He also occupied the position of Provincial Treasurer there.

Tlio Bishop of Nelson lias accepted for service a tutor nt Bishopdale College the Rev. John Achilles Rogers. 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. The new tutor conies with ,m (; record (says the Mail). Me entered Trinity College as a Sizar in lOOlj, and obtained t.lie prizes for Hebrew and Svriac languages and (•lassies. He won (lie Rcid Exhibition (£250) in Hebrew and Glassies, and the Wall Scholarship (£100) in Hebrew. Thaidee and Syriac. Tie 'also obtained the prizes in Senior Classics, and the Salmon and Bute-lie Exhibitions, lie took the B.A. and Divinity Testimonium in 1010. was ordained deacon in 1010. and priest in 1011. by the Bishop of Kilntore. Air. Rogers. who i< twenty-five years of age, is at present curate of Stradome. Co. Cavan, Ireland. He is expected in .Nelson on or about March Ist.

Writing of Royalty reminds nie (says a Sydney correspondent) that the Queen still pursues the Spartan simplicity which endeared her to Australians eleve'n years ago. S|,e i s go i ng to abolish a sinecure, the spectacular post of maid-of-honor. There never has been any actual work for tliein to do, and the greatest burden imposed upon them has been to pour out afternoon tea at Buckingham Palace when, her Majesty has been in residence. Queen Victoria had a largo and imposing conrt. Queen Alexandra still maintains most of the. state which ehe enjoyed when King Edward was alive. Hut Q m . on Mary's tastes are simpler, and a substantial reduction in her household j s contemplated. Kingly revenues will not sustain the standard of pomp which prevailed lift)' years ago. The cost of living has marie itself felt in the palace as well ns in the cottage, and Queen W.v:y is one of those women who ablioJ 'vast*. V