PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 193, 13 February 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that Thorns* Hardy, the novelist, has married iiis secretary, Florence Dugdale. Mr. Daniel Kivcrs. one of the e' > settlers of Wellington, died at IfasTfr"" lags on Tuesday morning at the am of eighty-four. A Sydney cable states that the Her. ci'end Doctor Druitt has been appointed Bishop of (irafton and Armidalc. Q» has acted as coadjutor to the ffiehoD since 1011. ' Mr. Muir has resigned the position ol editor of the Pahiatua Herald. Tin vacancy will be tilled by Mr. K. W. Carpenter, of the Auckland Star, and formerly of New Plymouth. -/ D > r- , Tr " l '- v Kia S> wh ° was the New /Cealaud Government's representative it the conference recently held in London oil infantile mortality, returned to til* Dominion by the Ruapehu on Monday. Dr. King is attending the iledieal Congress at Auckland. __ Nominations for the Public Service fsuperaunuation Board were considered yesterday by the Auckland section «f the Public Service Association. Alldecided to support the candidature ot Messrs. if. l-Vascr (Wellington!, J. W. Mat-Donald- (Wellington), and IL W Bishop (Christehureh).—Press Association. 3fr A. 11. Holmes, clerk of the WWlington Magistrate's Court for years, -'*■ Who has been promoted to the poVition (>f registrar of the Supreme Court _„ . ( hristchurch, was yesterday farewell.'d i»y the Wellington liar and presented with purse of sovereigns. Mr Sker- " ' rett, K.C., made the presentation and spoke m high terms of .Mr Uolmei' abilOne of the greatest editors of moder» tunes was the late Mr. Joseph Pulitier. proprietor of the New York Wffrld, the well-known American newspaper. Mr# Pulitzer was born ti Hungarian, emigrated to New York, enlisted at seventeen in a regiment of New York cavalry, served in the Civil War, became a newspaper reporter at twenty-one and was it newspaper owner at thirty-three, when lie purchased the World from Jay Gouli in 188,1. Ili.s waß a strange and ' personal history. After the first foul years of ownership and editorship of the newspaper, i u which period lie had raised that journal from obscurity and inMgnilkmiee into prosperity and poWer, Mr. I ulitzcr's health broke down. From ' lIS tune he could never read, though the loss of sight was not so absolute a* to prevent hnu from vaguely distilgiush objects or telling li«ht from darkness. I'or nine men out of ten such s catastrophe would have meant an end :,M Professional, activities, and some would have refused to survive it. Not ""■wiili Mr. Pulitzer, lie concentrated all his attention on the editorial pan) of Ins journal, lie had it read to him every (lav, and expressed his oninioit concerning every article that it contained. 1 hits for twentv-flvc years of the policy of the ' " New \ork World. At the quarter fen- > turys celebration of the newspaper hit ■mi I'alph. said: "I have in my mind's ' ••ye the picture, seen many and many a tune, of a man in the throes of sightlessness and suft'ering, insisting on s jmragvaph or phrase, just dictated, being read and re-read to him over and over again, listening with painful attention to catch and correct any slightest suspicion of mis-statement in ii fact, and slightest shade of mere empharfs in an adjective, any nossibilitv of conveying an impression that was not altogether accurate and scrupulously just." «