PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 216, 12 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs. W. Macklow and P. F. Colledge, of Auckland, are „u a business visit to .Sew Plymuutli. Sydney advises that eable news has been received of the dea;:i at San Fran--co of W. W. Naughton, an ex New write? a Wel ' kUOWn s P O "'nK The Hastings correspondent ol tha -Napier Herald fl a )a it j g understood that the Liberal Party have decided to run the Hon R. McXab for the Hawke'a Bay seat at the coining election. -Mr. Herdman arrived in Gore on Tucsday night, and motored over the route of the proposed new railway from Hedgehope to Core, at the Motorola Valley to-day lie delivered an address at Wyndham last night, rnd will visit the prison reformatory and camp at Invercargill today, returning north by the afternoon train. A pleasant little ceremony took placo at the last meeting oi <je TaranaM Agricultural Society, when Mr J. S. Connett, president of the Society] on behalf of his colleagues, presented Messrs H. H. Street and It. Johuaon, members of the committee, with a case of pipes and a hunting-crop respectively, i n appreciation of the bard work "of these gentlemen in connection with the recent autumn show. A Wellington musical enthusiast, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, told an interviewer: "I also met Miss Kosina Buekman. • She was doing as much concert work as any one woman can do. and could easily have got more. She is to appear in (,'ovcnt Garden in 'Parsifal.' I heard her sing several times, and her voire is in beautiful form, She is very wise, for she remains a student. She is studying languages, and keeping up every side of her work, us a vocalist should do." On Tuesday evening, by command of " hia Majesty the King., his Excellency tho flovernor invested the Hon. Charles Christopher llowen, knight, with the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Professor John« Shand, M.A., 1.X.D., with the insignia of a Companion of the same order. The investiture took place at "Klmwood," his Kxcellcncy's temporary residence. Their Excellencies were attended by the vice-regal stall', and accompanied by the Hon. T. 11. D. Bell and the Hon. R. Unaton Rhodes.