PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 2 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mass Powell, matron of the toad. " teJ and. 1 sanatorium at Hatorua,. is critiill with. typhoid fever. *\

iMss Editlh liiajj been matron of the Hamnor Spring* Sanatorium, recently destroyed! by fine, (has iwea temporarily tninsfeirred to Kotorua,;' Gabled advico hag, been, received that ■ Oa.pta.ui. Harold Williams, a. NjEtoder bor 1 i:j!!!:i holding a, cammuisfcdon in too Doraete. w»8 wounded in tihe recent fi«h.tinoi »■"* ' • ' removed to London.

m , tha t iMrr. rlomnoi WOarUiy, a veteran New Zealand jow- ' naflist, sustained a paralytics stroke at wXiymouffch wi Duead&y, slos is novy fu rather a sflrtjaus condition. . ' 0 Str. H. W. Wcow, of tihe N«nr i?W- • mloiuitaj. (taunrihi of the Bank of New Z«-' ; 4 land, lias received nolttoe of lu» trans* L for to Bumterviße as aooolunUttt, "TyT/ 1 ' leaves this maraing for his new position. ; PJifflae Itaederibk, of Saxe-Mem- i ingen, who was reported killed Jj?- a faro iNoovur tihe oilier day, was * si son of tlio rogjiiiiig du]iw, who fcy the way, is now nearly ninety yews old. The Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen be-. loag $o the same family as do the Dukes of Saxa-Coburg and Gotha, anil j consequently tliey are kinsmen to the King of Great Britain and Ireland. Botk branches trace back to Ernest Uho Mom, ef Saxony, companion in arms of Gust tavus Adoiphus of Sweden. They werp ,"i a warlike people, these Teutonic dukes and princes, but somehow thoy manuxed to keep their own little principalities and dukedoms out of the melting- v pot, periiaips because during the wa» t of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen* - tunes tihe military conquerors had no mind for territorial aggrandisement. And so the little territories of Saxe* Meiningen remained a separate Dukedom-, and indeed they were only a third of their present size until early in last , eentup-, wihen the Duko participated i» .'the division of the lands of the family , of SaxtsGofha, The total area of i Saxe-Meiningen is less than a thousand square miles, and yet the family of tha ■, Duke is competent to unite with Em- . perore and Emperors' cliildrcii. The heir to the Dukedom is a brotfeer-in-law »f the German Emperor.