PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 224, 10 February 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

On Wednesday, January 23, Miss Dora Christabel Rogers, only daughter of Mr. T. Rogers, Bell Block, was married to Mr. Alexander Mallon, of Inglewood. In the Whiteley Memorial Church last week Miss Eva Cattran, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Cattran. of New Plymouth, was married to Mr. Francis Morshead, eldest son of Mrs. Morshead, of South Road. The Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister for Railways, will arrive in New Plymouth by the mail train to-night, and after spending Tuesday mornng here will leave for Waitara at 2 o'clock. He will be accompanied by Mr. Ronayne and other railway officers. Mr. W. H. Bridges, late Superintendent ofi the Taranaki Division, of the Industrial Department of the A.M.P., accompanied by Mrs. Bridges and family, leaves per mail train this morning for Christchuroh, to which place he has been transferred. Mr. W. H. Taylor, of Inglewood, succeeds him in this district. Mr. H. -J. Okey, who was one of the party of North Island Parliamentarians to make the visit to Otago and Southland, returned to New • Plymouth on Friday night. He speaks in tenns of the highest praise of the tl.at was everywhere extended to the Yart.y, and characterises the trip as I avni" been> a most enjoyable one.

Prince Ivropotkiu, who is receiving such hearty congratulations just now from so many quarters on his seventieth birthday (savs t!ie Westminster Gazette of December !)), is one. of the few who have ever escaped from that grim stronghold, the Bastile of St. Petersburg, known as the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. One day, when he was recovering from an illness, lie was permitted to walk in the courtyard of the fortress. As the prison gate was opened Prince Kropotkin, whose friends were i;i waiting outside, made a wild da.sh for it. His guard, taken completely by surprise, stabbed wildly at him with his bayonet, but before an alarm could be raised he had been whirled away in a carriage, and by nightfall, in the gnise of a. military officer, he was on his way to Sweden. Personally. the Prince is a man of the simplest tastes and highest ideals, and by all who know him is not less loved than he is respected. In a small, unpretending house at Brighton he has lived for, years the existence of a student, and no one unacquainted with the facts would ever dream that this thoughtful, gentle, courteous savant, with the thin, nervous hands and scholar's stoop, 'was the dangerous firebrand and revolutionary who had been expelled, not only from his native land, but from France and Switzerland as well.