PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 31 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mi 1 . W. H. Hawkins, of Stratford, received a cablegram yesterday from Queensland, reporting the deatli of his inather.

Air F. A. Airey has >bcen chosen Auckland candidate for the New Zealand Rhodes, Scholarship. Br. Morteiiscn, marine biologist, of Copenhagen Museum, after interesting work at Port Jackson, wiil proceed to Now Zeaand next week

The Rev. A. W. Payne, of Patea, lint nee* offered and has accepted the position of tutor and sub-warden at Si.. John's Theological College, Auckland. At last night's meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association ac Wellington, Dr. H. B. Leafclmm was elected a vice-president, and Mr. M. E. Denniston as a member of die general committee.

The Otago Daily Times has been given .to understand that Mr. C. HoldswturlM, managing director ol ..lie Union Straw Ship Company, has joined the board of directors of the 'Standard Fire and .Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand, and that Mr. W. Doiwnie Stewart lias joined the board of thi> Wesnport Coal Company, Ltd., t-ho vacancy in each case having been caused by the death of tiie Hon. T. Fergus. Mr 11. B. Morris, of Stoke, has been appointed Resident Agent and Magistrate at the Island of Muhke, in the Cook Group. For many years Mr. Morris was in Central Africa as a judicial officer of the Foreign Ollieo Stall under Sir Harry Johnston. He has been in the Government service in New Zealand for about nine years, and has been a, resident of the Nelson district for over threo years.

Among all tho rulers of the nativo States of India, there is no one elso who stands out in commanding personality as does the Nawab Sultan Jahan Began of Bhopal. She has distinctions unique in many directions. No other ' woman at this moment fills, or appears I likely to fill, au Indian throne. She [ alone of her sex, with the exception of the Queen Empress, wears the mantle | and insignia of the Grand Cross of the ' Order of the Star of India, and is quite alone in the corresponding exalted rank jof the Order of tho Indian Empire. To [ these she adds the Crown of India in unique combination. No other woman up and down that great land receives a salute of nineteen guns on all occasions of State curemony. She is a brilliant English and Persian scholar, she has travelled widely, she enjoys equally the confidence of the Home and Indian Governments, and of hosts of nativo and j English friends. j General Hclmuth von Moltke, who has |' just been superseui-J as Chief of the German Staff, is sixty-six years old, and ' has spent his life studying the business |of war. Next to the great French Chief j of Staff, General Joffre, he is probably I the most picttirsequc of the many high j army officers now engaged in an active j European war. He saw active service in I the Franco-Prussian war forty-four years I ago, and distinguished himself notably, j From the first he has been a favorite with the Kaiser. His appointment as Chief of Staff was in fact a declaration on the Kaisers' part that tho army was to be run along lines of the old school — with a mailed fist, that is. And yet it was said, though with what authority, is not known, that when tho Kaiser gave General von Moltke the highest place in the army, he told him that ill the event of war lie would be replaced. He was born on May 23, 1848, in Gersdorf, Mecklenburg.