PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 235, 22 February 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

5k Dekasse has been appointed I'rench Ambassador in St. Petersburg The death is reported of Sir William Arrol, head of \\ illiuni Arro , iUI( , •t. i ;::? , r ,,i ' s wliu imiu an i ■i"«y ornlges.

Professor Percival. of Friedher- C„i----101 .New Zealand, where l u . will investigate thermal phenomena.

Sen or-feerg eant Dart, of Timaru, who fioant Haddrell s absence in England, has been transferred to Auckland

It is rumoured in Wellington that Sir illmm

Mr and Mrs. A. S. Biooker have for Auckland by the Eal , :u .„ ,„.„ ,', join the Maheno on Mondav for * months holiday trip to Sydney.'

Advices have been received in Svdnev of the death, at "Seattle, of the 5 iremavne Dunstan, formerly minister of Pitt street Congregational Church

I,J h r- " con,M P*ndent of the limes telegraphs that he has *»'« Hon J .A. Millar's authority for intends to reside in Auckland.

Early next week Mr. and Mrs. J. Beatord will leave for Auckland en route o Sydney where they will join the f,™V ™ eye l )ect to bB away fiom }»ew Plymouth for about a yean March 10 has .been fj xe d by the 1 . GovI,rSn Sthe , da ' efol ' the election of the first Opunake Harbor Board, and Mr. J*. W. Rogers has been appointed returning officer. The first meeting of the Board will be held on Saturday, March

On enquiry yesterday the Stratford Post learned that Dr. Prison passed . vey restless night, b ut his condition this morning showed some slight imE mCnt ' I V his though slight, is maintained, there is fair bona of his ultimate recovery. P

The Hon. W. Eraser, Minister for Public Works, journeyed from Waiau to Otautau yesterday, over the proposed railway route, and received a number of deputations regarding local matters. To-day he will travel over the route of the proposed Winton-Heddon Bush line. Mr. C. W. Jones, general manager for the Huddart-Parker" Company- in Sow Zealand, and Mr. William Bennett, manager of the South Taranaki .Shipping Company, have been granted the support of the Shipowners' Federation in their candidature for positions on the "Wellington Harbor Board, as representing payers of due on ships. Private advice was received in New Plymouth yesterday of the sudden death of Mrs. Frank Foote. The deceased lady.' who was predeceased by her husband a number of years ago. at one time lived in New 'Plymouth, but of late years resided at Nelson. Petone, and Feilding. She is survived bv her two daughters—Mrs. A. Keir. of' Bulls, and Miss Myra Foote, of Feilding. There were thirty applicants for the position of Harbormaster at New Plymouth, rendered vacant by the resignation of Captain Hoi ford. At the meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday Captain Wallin, at present in command of ' the Wimmera and the commodore of the Huddart-Parkor Company, was appointed to the vacancy. The new harbormaster was a resident of New Plymouth many years ago. i

. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. W. P. Kirkwood) informed a' Stratford Tost reporter that he would again contest the Mayoralty against all-comers. Mr. Kirkwood mentioned that one of his reasons for not accepting the Presidency of the Stratford A. and P. Association. \vs that he might he able to offer the ratepayers his services unhampered 'W the very great amount of work which fails to the lot of the A. and P.'s chief official. The Prime Minister, interviewed yesterday, said that lie had received no further information, from London regarding loan matters. The loan had been raised, but the Hon. James Allen had still important work to do in England. It was also possible he would visit Germany in connection with education matters, to acquaint himself with the rost scientific and modern developments. Mr. Massey did not expect that Mr. A'len would return to Xew Zealand before May.—Press Association.

Sir Henry Lucy has many piquant reminiscences of Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Labouchcre in a new volume of reminiscences. He prints a letter written by "Labby" in December, ISS(!.-in which the sage of Queen Anne's Gate said: "Mr. Gladstone can never understand that the end justifies the means. Churchill heat him by boldly telling '.he Orangemen to resist! I consider <!>'* it this wicked act was the cleverest thing he ever did." Mr. Labouchere held that the Liberal debacle in 1886 was due to two things: (]) "Because Morley clung to his damned Land Bill, which stinks in the nostrils of the Radicals; (2) because Gladstone was vague and triekv about what his Home Rule Bill was 'to be." When, in 1801, the O'Shea-Parnell divorce suit broke like a. tornado over the Liberal party, then- marching swiftly to victory, "Labby" summed up the situation in a characteristic bon mot: "As a party we Liberals have nothing to do with Mr. Parnell's affair?. We want measures, not women."

Sir Richard Temple, whose papers have been published, sat on the Conservative side of the House of Commons between 1886 and 1895. He did not love Gladstone, but he was attracted by the magnetism of Gladstone's personality, "Platitudes grandiloquently uttered" was his comment on one of Gladstone's speeches. "If he had only taken to the tragic stage, what a fortune he would have made! His gesticulation was quite magnificent." Of another occasion he wrote: "This provoked Gladstone in turn, and he began to spit fire at us splendidly. Tt was quite a sight to see the Grand Old Man. infuriated and eloquent, pointing his hand at us, as if it were a sword with which to transfix- us." Gladstone's gestures filled Sir Richard with admiration. "One of Nature's actors," he called him: "in Parliamentary histrionics he is unrivalled." He describes him as a "leonine"; again compares him to "an eagle on the wing poising in mid-air." Gladstone's peroration just before the fateful division on the second reading <-f the Home Rule Bill of ISSO was "noble both in substance and in delivery, ouite the finest thing T ever heard." "We listened respectfully, as to the song of the dying swan."