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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 20 June 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Newton King will leave on a trip to England in the course of a week or so. Mr. A. E. Sykes has returned from a visit to Australia.

Sir George Clifford was in New Plymouth yesterday, and visited the wells of the Taranaki (HZ.) Oil Wells Co., ILtd.

A Dunedin telegram reports the death of Mr. Eobert Chisholni, managing director of Scouller and Chisholm, and exMayor of Dunedin. He arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 1858.

At yesterday's meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board a motion of sympathy with the family of the late Mr. C. W. Govett in their bereavement.

. A Wellington wire states that Captain McDonald, the well-known officer of the Union Company, has 'been appointed marine superintendent in place of Captain Strang, who recently retired on superannuation.

The death of 'Mr Bennet Burleigh, the celebrated war correspondent, on the staff of the Daily Telegraph, is announced from London. Deceased had some remarkable experiences. He fought in the American war and was twice sentenced to death. He was the Central News correspondent throughout the first Egyptian war, being present at the Tcl-el-Kebir, and was a correspondent of the French campaign in Madagascar. As the Daily Telegraph's correspondent, he accompanied the desert column from Korti to Mctammah, 1884, being present at Abu. Klea and mentioned in despatches. He had further experiences with the Ashanti and Atbara expeditions, and in the Egyptian war at Omdurman and the South African war of 1899-1902. Deceased was a native of Glasgow.