PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 6, 26 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Ho«» W. Minister of Pub-j Ho Works, wilt be entertained at dinner at Hlthaan onTThursdayy y on this return from Opunake. Dr VaJimtme, Inspector-General of Hospitals, is at present in the New Plymouth Hospital, where on Saturday lie underwent an operation <to his leg.

It is fttated that Mr A. E. Bcalcher, headmaster ol Christ's College, Christchurch, him resigned.—Press Association.

Mr E. Phelao, secretary of the North Auckland Timber Union, is in Now Plymouth, acting as an assessor for the empkryooa at the Conciliation CouTt tlo-day. i

Mise McLean, Assistant InspectorGeneral of Hospitals, who will be in charge during the temporary incapacity of Dr. Valintine, was in New Plymouth yesterday.

The death is announced from Glasgow of Mr Rebert McGill, who was many yeare ago an engineer in the U.S.S. Co's employ. He came out to New Zealand in the old Wanaka 38 years ago. The Governor and the Countess of Liverpool left Wellington late last night for R&rv>tong&. There tihey will jodn Dr Pomaare and party on the Tutanekai for a. cruise among the islands, returning to Wellington about June 18. A Presß message received from Wellington mentions the likelihood that the Hon. W. M. Hughes, president of the Australian Labor Federation, and late Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, will attend the Labor Unity Congress in July at Wellington.

Mr J. A. Mcßherson, of the New Plymouth Money Order and Savings Ban* Department, left yesterday on transfer to Wanganni. During ihis stay in New Plymouth, Mr McPherson has .been a popular officer, and has .been well known in athletic cincles. Hi® colleagues, intend to forward him' a gold-mounted fountain pen as a mark of their esteem.

. Mr W. L. Reading, wiho. is relinquishing tihe position, of associate-editor of the New Zealand l Times to take over the odriorallup of the LytteKon Times, was entertained by a number of leading citizens at Wellington last evening, uriu was presented with a. purse of sovereigns. Sir Joseph Ward inside tihe presentation, and spoke in highly appreciative terms of tihe guest. Mr R. Fletcher and other speakers cordially supported Sir Joseh's eulogy iof Mir qualities as a journalist and a citizen—Press Association. .

Upton Sinclair, who was sentenced to three daya imprisonment for protesting i against the oppression of the Colorado minors, is tlhe man who gave civilisation a shock by writing "The Jungle," wherein </he infamies of the American Beef Trust were exposed with a ruthlessness that has never been forgotten. Up to the publication of "The Jungle," Sinclair was an obscure journalist, but tte stupendous success of that book, hrought him «> much into the literary limelight that ihis later novels —although not nearly so sensational—have returned him much money. Throe of his books, "The Metropolis," -'SammJ the Rvoker," and "Love's Pilgrimage" all written from the working class point of view, thave had an immense vogue, the lastmentioned being a particularly flue piece of analytical work.