PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 284, 31 March 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Duke and Duchess of Counaugliii have returned to London. 1

A London cablegram reports the death of the Duke of St. Albans, the eleventh duke, at the age of 43.

Mr. W. J. (iiierin returned to Welling' ton on Saturday, after having been act-ing-editor of the Taranaki Herald for a month.

Dr. and .Mrs. Wylie and Captain Waller (harbourmaster) were passengers for Auckland by the l?arawa on Saturday night.

A cable message from Berlin announces the death ol' Prince Henry NIY., of Reuss. The deceased was born in 1832. His successor is Prince Henry XXVII.,. who has been acting as Regent.

The engagement is announced of Miss Charlotte Alary Beauchamp, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beauchamp, to Lieutenant-Colonel John C. C. Perkins, D.5.0., Controller of Military Accounts, Western Circle, Poona, India. -Dr. Robert Stout, M.8., London, M.R.C.S., England, who has been doing' post graduate surgical work in Edin-, burgh during the past two and a half months, has, according to a cable received, passed the degree of E.R.C.S. of Edinburgh.

The Prime Minister and the Hon. Mr. Eraser have accepted the invitation of the Borough of New Plymouth, the County Council and the Chamber of Commerce to be. present at a bancmet in their honor to be held in Xew Plymouth on Friday evening next. Mr. A. M. Myers, M.P., of Auckland, entertained the members of his election committee on Wednesday evening at a harbor excursion. The ferry steamer Peregrine was engaged for the purpose, and made a most enjoyable journey down the harbor, returning about 10 o'clock.

The Ilev. Alfred Xeild, M.A., Archbishop of Dunediu and Vicar of St.. Mary's, Mornington, has been offered by the Bishop of Melanesia the position, of organising secretary to the mission inNew Zealand, with* headquarters at Auckland. It is understood the Archdeacon will accept. There was a representative attendance at the funeral at Kaiapoi on Wednesday of the late Mr. Robert Wylie, who died 011 Monday, aged 78 years. A native of Scotland, he took up the occupation of shipwright, and assisted at the building of the lilack Prince' ironclad. While serving as a ship's carpenter, liewas on one occasion on a vessel that was wrecked on the coast of South America, and getting to shore he received a wound" from armed natives. The rescued part of the vessel's crew were some weeks before they' reached a friendly settlement. Leaving the sea for a time. Mr.. Wylie joined the Royal Irish Rifles. With his wife he arrived in Auckland in the Watersprite, in 1803, and was engaged in building pontoons, and light vessels to assist the British operations in the Maori War. Thirty-five years ago he settled in Lvttelton; and later removed to Kaiapoi. The funeral was attended' by his four sons and two daughters, oneof the former being Mayor of Kaiapoi.