PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 129, 24 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The King gavo an audience to rthe G&ekwair of Baroda.

President Poineare, says a London cablegram, has accepted- the position of Rector of Glasgow University. M A meeting 0 f directors of the New Zealand Shipping, Ltd., held on Tuesday, Mr. A. W. Bennett was appointed general manager for U\Q colonies. Mr. Gordon Hay MTvcnzie hag been appointed manager of the Union Company's branch at Apia. Mr. M'Kenzie, who liaa lately been attached to the Christchurch 'branch of hto company. wag purser on several of the company's eteamera, including the Maori. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. J. E. Wilson) ,the chairman of ! the Tarauaki County Council ('Mr. J. Brown) and the 'town clerk (Mr. P. T. Bellring-er) left for Wellington tibia morning to interview the Minister in rclationi to the proposed toll-gate in connection witi the Waiwaikaiho bridg*. Rev. A. H. Colvile., wlho has been recuperating at Napier, and subsequently aXenciing the 6vm>.l in Auckland, returned to New Plymouth by 'the mail taiin on Thursday evening! lie will conduct the services at St. Mary's Church to-morrow.

Master Baden-Powell Bell-ringer, of New Plymouth, has been awarded a Royal Humane certificate for his plucky rescue of Miss Evelyn Death from drowning on the New Plymouth beach on 28t!h February, 10H.

l Mr Noel Bust on, who, it is reported, 1 has born seriously wounded in 'Bucharest, '' has been Liberal M.P. for Norfolk since 10-10. Ho is an authority on Balkan affairs, and the affairs of the Near East 1 generally. His publications include ' "Europe and the Turks," and' "With the Bulgarian Staff." He. was chairman of the Balkan Commission, and several other important, foodies. lie wa» A.D.C. to his father, Sir T. Powell Buxton, wlien ho was Governor of South Australia in 1800, and educated at' Trinity College, Oairfbridge. lie has travelled mucli in the Near East, and interested (himself in Macedonia. His brother Charles was private secretary to Ms father when Governor of South Aurtralia. He (has been Principal of "the Morley College for working men and women, first president of the South London 'branch of the Workers' Education Association and Liberal M.P. for Whitby, Yorks, 1905-0, and Devon, 1810.