PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 4 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Major Shane, military secretary to the Governor, is to Ibe an, officer of flic Expeditionary Force. A Capetown telegram (report® the d«ath ol .Lord de Villiers, who was Chief Justice of the South African Union.

•Melbourne advises t'he death of Oiptajm Archibald Ourrie, ship-owner, and president of t3ie Marine Bowrd of Victoria.

Mr Herbert Booth, youngest eon of the late General Booth, wiii visit New /.ouland next year to conduct evangelistic meetings.

Mr A. J. $. Thomson, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at OtaJd, is seriously ill. He is a brother of Mr Frails. Thomson, secretary to the JPrime Minister. ■ , ,■

The funeral of the late Mr. J. if. Hempton, which took place yesterday afternoon, was very largely *attende(K TheiHev. S. X. OsboTne officiated mcst impressively.

commissioner ,<atieha,rds, head of tho Salivation Army in New Zealand, litis returned to Wellington from .London, whore he had attended lilic World's Congress of the, Atfmy. Major Oulvm, editor of the War Cry, also returned -with the Commissioner.

The death occurred suddenly at Taaranga on Sunday, from heart failure, of XZr. Krneat Samuel,- aged C 4. Deceased wag founder of the" Wair&raixi, Daily Times' witih, Mr. Joseph Payton, in 1879, and was one of the ca,rly directors of-the New Times.

A Vancouver message states that s [KM-ty of New ZeaJanuers, including the lion. George FowJds, . -Ur, and Mrs. M'Govcrn, of- Auckland, and others, are I'etiirniiif; tu Acw Zealand by the M';lrunia, they having been obliged io cancel their trips in Britain owing to tho war.

lAdvico hav been received that Mr 1!. U. Blow, s oii of Mr il. H. Blow, of ■Wellington, who is just on t'lue point o£ completing. Iris three years' course at tlie Koyal Academy of Music in London, -was successful in winning the silver medal 6f -t/lio niaulojny at the competitions held in Jfuly last. Mr Blow won the bronzo medial of the academy "at tho similar, competitions last year *

, Till! Rev. John MacKenzie, M.A., ol' ot. Andrews Ohristcburch, has received a call to Poorak, Melbourne, the inos t i onabl-e JVesUyterian CUmv-v in Australia. Tooraik is MeiiK>iirii''.s weedthiest and most beautiful suburb, aiij the seat of viovcmmtiit '.House. It w understood thati tlu> .call will be accepted. Another call is from Edendale, Mataura, to the itev. ,Jotm J'ringle, -M.A. of Kirwee. Both calls will be oonwidered at the meeting' 0 f tin; •Presbytery on September l>. i'ress Association.

! The deatih occurred at AUurton un Monday of the 'H'ev. Joshua Joneq, who was lor eome 28 y«nr» vicar of trie St. James' Anglican .parish at the -lower ijirtt. He retired from that ctogc in February last at the age of 70 year-, and was succeeded by the ltev. A. u itonsell. Ihe late .Mr Jonew was horn I , l L^'' n ®' lall<l 111 IS44 > waa o'damed' m 1867 a deacon, and a priest the followiu7i"i051!" ''' V "d' liristiaiie. hi IS/1 he left Queensland for New Zealand, and had been stationed successiveyl at tlyde, Oueenstown. Fmld-mg Ki'wi-tei and the Hutt. Tho deceased was a hue right-thinking gentleman, who was held ,it much esteem i>y all -w]*r kno «r ■mm. lie leaves a widow and. two unmarried daughters.

It is a. curious thing that tlie Kiist • >ea, Lord of the. Admiralty, the man responsible to tlie Mlrnisfer for the efficiency «t tho whole fleet, is of Cerman blood, lint it iha-s been said of I'rm • • Louis of iiattenberg that he was horn a .Serene Highness, but. lias ii v ,.,j ;i down, lie is tlio son. of Prince Alexander of Hesse, and wia,s (born in Austria, hue became a naitiralised 'Ktagftxn■maa i n his boyhood. Ije. saw service in Egypt, has -held miany important commands afloat and ashore, land, in file words of an English writer, "hohis the confidence and admira-ten of tin; entire service," For some years he dia.il been reputed oiie of the most liirilliam strategists in -the Navy. Prince Louis' married a grand-daus-iliter wf Queen Victoria, and his ciaest son is Prince George of Batfceriberw. who was a sublieutenant on the New Zealand during he.r Empire cruise.