PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 167, 21 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that Miss Zoe Jvorner, of Christchurch, has been awarded the Sainton Dolby singing prize at th cßoyal Academy,

Constable JJlaikey arrived from Auckland by tlie mail train 011 Saturday night, on transfer, to till the vacancy caused by ihe .promotion ot Constable O'Neill to ollieer-in-eharge at lUahotu.

Mr K. J. I'arlhew, who Cia i been 011 a trip to tho Koiuek-.n-l, icturiied la:,i week. Ho was in En;,land when war was proclaimed, and has a vivid rei-ol-icction of the excitement caused 'by the news. Needless to sa.v, he i., :;!ad to lie back once more in .Sew Plymouth.

Tail Ileu,are, the member for the ' Xorthern .Mauri seat, is a half-caste of llijiili birth, tilt: blood of tin: great Xga'jiiilii lighting thief .Mm alum running in his wins. He stands lift high and is inclined ti> portliness. Tau was burn in the Mangakahia and was educated at 'tlus Native school at Te Jiouto. For thirteen years lie. was bush contracting for Wie Kauri Timber Company, but is now settled as a dairy fanner in the Motatau district. X good deal of his political streng:li is derived from the fact that he married a daughter of the Rarawas, ami also from his successful work in the Land Court on behalf of his people. >/ t

Xewf' has been received by his relatives in Xew Zealand of tile death at Preston ll'luto, Brighton, J£ngltan)il, of Surgeon-General Edward MeKelhir. M.1)., J.l'., of Woodlcigh, Preston, eldest brother of Mr Dugald MlKellar, of Wellington (formerly of 11.11. Customs), 111* A. A. M. Aielvellar, Christchurch and llr J. 8. .MeKellar, Xew Plymouth. The deceased gentleman had a distinguished career (says the Sussex Daily! Xe\ys). lie was the son of Dr Dugald MeKellar, ami was born at Battersca.,' Educated at Chrphain Grammar fikdiool and University Collego, London, he tub-' set|iientlv became a member of the Royal! ■ College of Surgeons. He, was appointed assistant snurgeon in the Gon. East India' Company's service, previous to the' transfer to the Crown. He served in all twenty-six years in India, was in no' fewer than sixteen engagements, ssrv-! i"B throughout Vhe jliurmcsn War in ] B.j2r,;i, with ller Majesty's, 30th Foot, and was present at the. cap- 1 turc of Rangoon, Martaban and Pegu j and received medal and clasp for the vampaign. He also served throughout c t'iio Indian Mutiny campaign, and previous tt) the outbreak of the (Mutiny lie wa,s surgeon in the famous Gwalior Icntingent. who mutinied and massacred! nearly all their officers. Th e general had a, miraculous escape. Subsequently! he was sixteen years in the Bengal i Cavalry, holding while in India many! important, and civil and military ap-; pointments. Surgeon-General MeKellar : took part in the .Abyssinian expedition of ISiiS. and received the medal. * He was eighty-eight years of age at the time of his death.