PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 29 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Hubart cablegram reports iim dearth of Mr Lwigntown, UuMtnmaa <rf Gomniibtees in .tin; Assembly. Sir W. McGregor, Governor of Queensland, has intimated hi» initentmu Vo rerfign during tlio present year. Mr H. P. Hudson, .presmiterat of the New Zealand JiYuitgrowtaW Associafcion, will contest the Motueka seat in the Government interests.

Oamaru reports the deatfi of Mr W. 0. McDougaJ, aged 80, local manager of the National Bank!, after a brief illness. 'Mr McDougali was !i popular official.

A London cablegram; ireports the death of Sr Joseph Wilson Swan, et the age of' 01 years. He was <thio inventor of the incandescent electoio lamp wjiich bears his name and also of tiho carbon process for making pormatteitf photographs, now known as autotype. Ho also made other inventions in oonneotion with electricity and phiotogir&pliy. Colonel E. S. Hoard, chief of the General Staff, wilt be returning to England in July. It is stated tihat Colonel E. W. G. Cftoytor, officer commanding the Wellington military district wSlth. hcadqunrtars at Pahmorsfcon North, is to he promoted to !the Dominion (headquarters, WeflMjigton. It is also stated that Qolioncl Cfaytor is to be sufcoeeded at PaJknerston North by Major Johndtoim, an Imperial officer who is at present in New Zealand on, furlough from India. Colonel V. S. Smitih, officer-com-manding tiho Oanterbuiry military district, will bo taring to England' ahotfUy on six months? leans of absence,, and while he is away his duties will be carried on by Col. R. A, Chaffey, Brigadier of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Brigade.