PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 271, 8 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London cable message reports the' death of Lady Curzon. *) A cablegram reports the death in Lon- » don of Mr. George Hodgman, "the father. of the turf." The Earl of Dudley's son, Roderick ** (says a London cable message) vVas thrown from his horse while hunting, and is in an unconscious condition. \ Mr. J. Wilson, who was .injured, iu a. motor car accident in the Wnirarapa a\ couple of weeks ago, was with the hel}>> .of crutches able to move about .yes'tprday. \

Mr. A. T. Ngata, M.l\ /or the Maqrf Eastern District, who underwent tin , j operation in a private Hospital ip \Vel- v lington a few days ago, is riiafiiug sjjtis- ' factory progress towards recovery, -,j Miss Cecil Haines, who only attains her ! seventh birthday this mouth, has galled ~V the Napier championship for the best re- I citer under 10 years oi' age. --This is the fifth championship she has secured. The Hon. tV. H. ilen ies )eaves.-.'foii ! tlip South on Monday "next, tb complete' th'fi inspection of the railways. He will travel over all. the main lines of thd South Island, and expects to be absent .j from Wellington, for a month. t ,< j ' Sydney reports the deaths of Lady".. Manning, SigmSr liiccard;, a prominent' ' music teach'ciV iin<l 'Mr.' A. 'A'. Dangar, ' a noted .stockbreeder rnA.phUantliro- 1 » pist. Mr. Daiijga.r's gifts' rnclirded £IO,OOO. t to the Dreadnought fund rad fitf.OOO to'" build nil Anglican -'Church- at Singleton.

The death'is tfhntaonced of the Earlo'f •' * Bclinpre. The;-dtoeaiijed, who was born -| in 1835, was the: fourth Eur], .qjjd, $«<•; eeeded to the title when ten years ofage. Since 1803 he has tlie Senior 1 Representative Peer for Ireland. He was a Conservative iri polities." -and -wiiv> Secretary for Home Affairs in 1800-07. He was made a Privy Councillor in ISO", and a year later was appointed Governorof J«ew South Wales. family name is Corry, and Viscount (orry, son of the late Earl, succeds to the titlo.,and- to a landed estate of ahout 1.5,000 acres. Mr. Correll, the youngest member of the Mawson expedition, who returned to Adelaide on March >2B, stated that on one journey with Madigan and Maclean he had a terrible experience among the crevasses and chasms., 15,. Mount Outlook. Tlfey V ;ere f>o> liVinA; without food, and had to throw awajp scientific instruments. •After about other hardships, Correll VnsWp ed, "Do you want to go back again?" "Yes," lie answered, "I'd go back like a shot if I got the chance. lam hoping to get a trip when they go to bring Dr. . Mawson hack. It's a iiij'3 life." M. Fallieres. the retiring President of the French Republic, has jeen telling a*i interviewer his plans for tie future.*"' " i [ am going to resume tin* iife I led formerly in Paris when I was President of the Senate, and on my estate in the country. For a . month' at Easter during the four months at the. long vacation T shall be a simple vim .jower. I a tn' eager to be among my vines with the priming knife iri my Jvu.d, „ 0 t that I ow ; u a renowned vintage, but I like mv vineyard to be iiinong the lho'st carefully cultured in tbe wholo countryside, I W 1 71, and .there- ur? younger men waiting for legislative positions. I have no other plans. Perhaps I shall travel a. little. Our cbuntry is so beautiful that I have Wen-seized with an ardent desire to know more of it." - ' *