PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 269, 14 April 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr. (•■ W. Browne) is indisposed'. Mr. ,i. H„ Clayton, one-time of Tftranaki, has bought the Whakatane Prew.. f]' e death is announced of Lord Sufneld, Lord-01-Haitmg in Ordinary to the Mng.

Mr. \V. P. Barclay, of Tikorongi, isat present lying seriously ill in the Sew Plpmouth hospital.

Mr. George Bollinger, of the Bank of .New South Wales, Cambridge, is spend* «g a holiday in New Plymouth. Mr. E. P. Greatbatch, who is practising as a solicitor at Matamata, is spending a holiday in Now Plymouth.

Mr A. W. who is at present on the staff of the Evening Post, Wellington, is on a visit to New Plymouth. The President of the United States has ordered the transference of ConsulAucWan^b;f ittftin (Mmg t0

twi a . m ®? tti g of the New Plymouth Brotherhood on Sunday, Mr. T. G. Hirst, on behalf of the Executive, presented the Rev. J W. Burton with & stun of money with which to purchase a memento in the shape of something for his study furnishings when Melbourne.

A very old settlor of Morton passed' ?T y in. the perso* of Mr John Nisbet, who died at hi» residence Hclenbank, Porewa, at the rip*, old «» of 81 years. Mr. Nisbet was on® of the earliest colonists in the district,,having v resided at Porewa for 46 yean. H» leaves a grown up family of to children to whom a wide circle of friends will extend sincere sympathy.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph give* the •followipg interesting pen picture of tin* , Prime Minister of Great Britain, who is /| •• much in the public eye just nowi,—"A I ruddy, open-faced, this Prime Minister of Great Britain. His longish grey hail* makes little mark of age upon him. His untroubled-placid, ity of expression gives little binMfcat he is the foremost political flgnrAW%® time. Short of stature, and Bturdv oI build, ho rose into the erithuiuwm of applause that greeted him still convey ing I but little suggestion of the powers that must lurk somewhere behind that "und. if not child-like, exterior. And {ben h* began to speak—calmly, and deliberately, still untroubled and still urbane.. Of if : ' oratorical 'business' not & jot in Dm , serene and measured glow of worts. Con.,' versatipn a little exaltedj the every-danh* colloquial of a cultured man a little «.v f panded into balanced phrases, and Mine-' times a porfectly-poised sentence of words that rose in beautiful, but stUt calmly ordered utterance. A great matter' of words, this Prime Minister, worda seemingly easy, but fitting one by on* into every nook and cranny; of th» thought they work upon, until the «*- tenco and the thought are simultaneou»y f. n d wholly covered. Now and th» a slight pause—the word comes—tt is a ■ wonderful word, the all expressive wort. Emphasis now and again, of couhe.jwil 1 power now and again, brit alwavs ea»« and grace, and always extraordinary luoidity-that is the way of the Prime MiVistoft speak mg." "