PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 206, 28 February 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The. death of Sir .lulin Tenniel, tin 1 groat artist, of Punch fame, is reported by cablegram from London, at the «<;e of 94.

A Press wire states that 1J- M. L. Reading, associate editor of the New /•aland Times, lias been appointed editor of the Lvttelton Times, vice Mr. S. Saunders, who recently resigned.

The friends of Miss (I. Sisley, former !)• of the nursing stall' of the Xew Ply month Hospital, will regret to lean that she recently underwent r.n opera tion for appendicitis in the Prince A 1 frcd Hospital, Sydney. She is- now pro greasing satisfactorily.

During his recent visit to the Waitalu Bovs' High School, at Oatnaru, the Governor presented a plaque made from copper taken from Nelson's Victory to lan Roy, of New Plymouth. This was a prize offered by the British and Foreign Sailors' Society for an essay by South Island hoys under Hi years of age. The recipient was congratulated by the Governor and cheered by the assembled pupils.

ilr William I'ettie. ex-Mayor of Oisborne, and a member of the Gisborne bowling team, who was taking part in the Auckland Exhibition toi rnament. died suddenly yesterday morn ng. He was apparently bright and well on Thursday, and played with his team till late in the afternoon, and had xuppcr at the hotel. He was t iken ill at 4 a.m., and received medical attendance, but died two hours later, the cause, tpparentlv, beitg heart weakness. —P.A.

News has been received by cable of the further success of a pupil of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Mr. Doric L. Algie, who has secured his Bachelor of Arts degree, in addition to passing 1 the first section of the LL.H. degree. Mr. Algie's subjects were English, Latin, jurisprudence and constitutional his, tory' general history and economics. Although not quite blind, it is necessary for him to study under the system and conditions of the Institute, and his success is the Inll.ll remarkable in view of the fact that all the text books required have to be copied into the Braille system. The successful student is a son of the postmaster of Queenstown. He waa educated at the Blind Institute and King's College, matriculating in 1010. He went to the University College in 1011, and secured the Latin premium at the college in 1912.