PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 198, 19 February 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL.

■Mr. .1. G. \V. Aitkin, ex-mayor of Wellington, who recently underwent an operation, is reported to be .making satisfactory progress towards recovery. I Airs. Albert (loldie, better remember-! Ed in Xew Zealand, perhaps, as Miss LHllcie Deamer) is in London making arrangements for the Australian carnival which is to be held there in llllli. Also she is negotiating for the placing of some of her writings in London. At the moment Mrs. (loldie is writing a novel on Mexico. -Mr. Miles, a merchant at Monic Video, is making a tour of Xew Zealand, accompanied by Mrs. .Miles. Last week Mr. Miles, who is interested ■•■ the fruit industry, made an inspeer.it/n of a number of orchards in the Nelson district, and came on to Wellington by the Pateena on Saturday night.

Mr. A. W. Hogg has announced his Intention of again contesting the Mas•le.rton seat at the next election. Asked in what interests he intended standing, Air. Hogg replied that he would support the. party liaving the most pro gressive policy.

Sir. Samuel Kobinson, one of Australia's pioneer settlers and prominent business men and politicians, a wealthy »i*ualter and ex-member of the Upper House in Xew South Wale-, is at present on a visit to Auckland, accompanied by Airs. Kobinson and her daughter. They are on their way to Uotorna. ivhcrij Sir Samuel intends to spend » weeks before, returning to Australia. Sir Samuel is a native of Ulster, and is a staunch Orangeman and a bitter opponent of Home' Rule for Ireland. ]n the course of a short oonversation (his morning he said he had been bitterly opposed all his life to the granting of separation to Ireland, and that hi'.-(ifty-six years' residence in Australia had done nothing to dampen hi.-. Ardour in the cause of Orangeism.

Before the business of I'm- llawkeV I Hay Land Hoard commenced on Friday, f the members took the opportunity o! bidding farewell to Mr. 11. T. Sudd. j Commissioner of Crown Lauds for llawke's Bay, who has received-notice I of his promotion to the charge of the I Duncdiji district. .Mr. ii. 11. lioss, the ! Crown tenants' representative on the Hoard, congratulated .Mr. Sadd on hi{promotion, although, he .said, they wen- » sorry to lose such a progressive mem--1 her. He. wished Mr. Sadd every sueeess in his new sphere of duties, lie J moved: "That the congratulations ot I this Hoard be accorded to Mr. Sadd on his promotion to the important position of Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin. Whilst regretting his departure from this district, we trust that his promotion will be accompanied by a continuation ol good health, thus enabling him to cam out the duties in connection with his office in the South with the same energy and with the same marked success that has attended his efforts in llawke's Bay." Messrs T. Hyde, C. Wright and Cameron added their quota and the motion was carried unanimously. Mr. Sadd briefly replied, thanking the members for their kind references to hit departure, i Although he was goin," away, he would not forget llawke's liav and the harmonious way in which the Hoard had worked.

"Xinety-fivc, and still hale ami heart}-." was the grouting of Mr. liobert Itowe, of tiladstone, when lie strolled into this oflici- yesterday Homing to pay his quarterly subs. '.Mr. Rowe. who, wo believe, has been settled for nearly half a century in (fladstone, contemplate selling- his farm and possibly taking a trip to England. These voting fellows will have their little pleasure trips!— Carterton News. 'M. Bertillon, whose death is reported , in a message from Paris, did a great deal to make hard the lot of the professional criminal, lie erolved a system of identification by means of measurements, enabling the police of the world to keep reliable records of crimes land /criminals regardless of disguises and change of name. The original Jiertillon system required a series of measurements to be made over all parts of the body and there seems to be no doubt that it was practically infallible in operation. The criminal whose ■■numbers" were on record in a Jiertilion . cabinet could never again pass liiiuc.-df i off as a first offender. Later the liu-er-I print system was evolved ami Ihe 'discovery that a simple linger could identify as surely as a score of measurements caused the more cumbrous device to lie abandoned in many countries. |; u i i;, ( , French police hav'e clung to the I'.ertillon method and M. Jiertilion was entitled to he regarded as the pioneer in the scientific classification of criminals.