PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 26 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Captain Hardham, V.C., of Petone is a member of the Expeditionary Force. Mr Hayhurst, a son of the late Coloid Hiijhmst, has consented to stand in the Reform .interests for Temuka. if wie League approves this scliv,

llhe death occurred last evening at Dunedan of tiw Right Kev. Monsign r 0 Reilly, aged 72 years. He was a wellknown pioneer of the Roman Ca/tho'iChurch w, New Zealand, and wm I,>,

wr?n-' secretary of the Wd mgton Opera Company 'and the Bonithon Oil Company, Taranaki, who wa« formcrfy a mjsmber of the Houeo 0 f Represcntatn-eE. and at one time in business on the. We»t> Coiwt, died yesterd y, aged 60. J

The exact whereabouts of Ardh&fchoD Redwood and Deam Kegmault, at sent abroad, i 9 th e faofc that several cables have been sent to likely places, inquiring about them. ha ? received, of them, and it ia thought tjiat they aruu»t have been ir. the vicinity of Belgium Vhen war broke out. v

J?» Cl '™tchureh newspapers liave supplied' itlifiir quota to the expeditionary force. C. C. Yorke and R, Ritchie iTS'rarvTV tt t S literary sUff. From the Press J. 0. Mulnltthr Pr department of the' /,? e 5! ; M " S - Hajnber ia the son of Mr ftmvere Hamper, editor of the New Zealand Referee, and J. Kenn° ° n tsl staff, and G. Biydon on the engineer's staff, of the Press Company. The Sua supplied Noiel Ross fromu its literary staff. All these men are in the infanbry, ioininir I through, the Ist llegirajent. The British Admirals are mostly men rnh ln T e V ' K °^ of Kfe - Admira.l Sir V. : coe ' Oomtaander-in -Chief of the British Battle Fleet, jg fifty-four seven years younger than tli« office) l whom he sii-.ceeded. The youngest Admiral in the Navv is Rear-Admiral David iieatty, who was recently npi pointed to comnnland, the First Battle Cruiser Squadron, one of the most powerful squadrons in the wortd, and the fiiatest. Admiral Beaitty is only fortytwo years of age; He is a magnificent type of Englishman—<not merely the youngest, but probably also the most handsome of British Admirals. It is interesting to know that he married a-' daughter of Mr. Marshall Field, the owner'of what, fa claimed to be the Ibiggest shop in the "world in Ojbicago, TheTe is quite a touch of romance about the story ithat M. Caillaux has been pa'omoted from th« rank of sergeant in the French Arahy to that of lieutenant. A faw monifchs ago ho was the strongest man in French lie led the largest single "grouip in the Lhaimber, and he alone seemed likely to unite sufficient forces /to be able to form a stable government. , Then eaime the crash, when the "Figaro" attacked him on the gioumd that he had been rarivatoly negotiating with the Germans to ■put an end to the state of tension in the relations of the two countries. The Figaro carried its campaign into the region of unwarranted personalities, ajid Madame Caillaux, taking the law into her own hands, killed M. Oalmette, the editor of the joulrnal. The tragedy ruined M. Caillaux's career, though h£ vag re-eleotcd : to the Chamber. Now lie ffi serving against the enemies of his country. Truiy France is an amazing country.

A largo, calm, unemotional man, with a prodigious memory, an'instinctive hatred of anything and everything theatrical; honest, direct, tenacious—that is Sir Laird Borden, GjCjM.G. He has C*in Canada's Prime Minister since the end of September, ISIU, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Government was deekiviily defeated at the general election He had previously been leader of the Opposition from II9QI, succeeding Sir Charles Topper, who described ihim as the ablest parliamentarian in Canadian public life. The son of Mr. Andrew Borden, a farmer, Sir Robert was born in 1834 in Grand Pre, Xova Scotia, so well known as the scene of Longfellow's "Evangeline.*' Called to the 'Bar of Nova Scotia in 1878, he rose by sheer hard work to be its leader, and appeared often before the Supreme Court at Ottawa. He first entered public life in 1890, when he was elected to the House of Commons for Halifax. Lady Borden is a diflighter of the late Mr. T. H. Bond, of Halifax, and has played ,her part- in hfr husband's career with graciousness, with entire absorption in his interests, with social tact and skill, and with fine high courage. i