PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 94, 16 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

A Sydney cablegram reports that his Honor Oiief-J-UKtic® Cullen hss been elected Chancellor of the iSydney University. Mr. and Mrs. Scaulon, whose visit to Fiji lias 'been greatly prolonged by the interruption of shipping services caused j by tho war, left Suva lor Auckland On Saturday, liomoward bound. After dinner at Government House j oil Tuesday evening His Excellency the 'Governor invested Major-General Sir 1 Alexander J. G'odley with the insignia 'of K.C.M.O. Those present included tie Primo Minister and other members of the Cabinet and their wives l , Sir Joseph anil Lady Ward, and Captain and Mm Marsh a 11"—Press Association. •Mr. Stanley Shaw has received word that his son Jack has passed his medical I 'iiitiermedrale CKamintution, and now hoped to commence his hospital course. Ho also states that he has joined th: Lc-ndon University Medical Corps, but Inp to tho time of writing, luid not ? heard where, their services would foe 'utilised.

Writing from London 011 August 5, ; just after the declaration of war, a ' London correspondent says: "BrigadierOeneral R. 11. Davies, C.8., the New Zealand officer who has been in command of the fith Infantry Brigade for the last four years, and was on the eve of relinquishing the post, lias now seen his second great mobilisation, the first being at the time of the Agadif incident. General Davie.Vs Brigade is part of the iirsfc expeditionary force at Aldershot, eo hs will be. fortunate enough to see active service with the brigade ho has commanded so enieiently."