PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 27 January 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Right Hon. Andrew Fisher,- Prima Minister of the Commonwealth, wlfl eaid for Sydney on Friday. The Hon* IX R. Hall, Attorney-General for XeH South Wales, will also leave for S' dne* on Friday. Mr Robert Macky, for very many yo&r£ a member of the Auckland Stock Ex* change, died at his residence, 1)«T0B4 port, on Friday, at the age of u'Z Deceased retired from the Exchange about a couple of years ago, on ao> count of failing health. He was one the many young Aucklanders who wenfl to Thames goljlfields in the early days. Mr James Bruce, of New Plymo'uffiL left Auckland by the Niagara yesterdsfe for Quincy, Florida. Mr Bruce has gon^' on a business visit in connection with** large block of land, of which he is ona of the legatees, and may be away several years.

Mr,J. A. Valentine, secretary to tUg Board of Education, and assistant in* spector under the Board, has been &ni pointed inspector under the new Act. JEM therefore resigns the secretaryship. the education district and board may b# abolished by the Commission, the Department recommends % appointment of a temporary secretary, and F. Milla* chief clerk, has been appointed acting* secretary in addition to his present duties. J Admiral Fisher received many congratulations on his birthday, states 4 London Press Association cablegrams Fisher, of Kilverstone, son of Captain William Fisher, 78th Highlanders, wa3 born in January, 1841, and is thereforf 1 o»? ears °* a " e ' entered the navy ill 1854, an(J was raised to the -tank of lieutenant in 1880, and after taking part in the capture of Canton and Peih* ic/vf was Promoted to Rear-Admiral !j£ 1890. Admiral Fisher also saw service m the Crimean war (1859-60), ao| Egyptian war (188-2). He was Cpw' mander-in-Chief of tlhe Mediterranean! Station from 1890-1902, second Lord 01 the Admiralty during 1002-03, and Firsf

Madame Boeufve, the wife of a fow iner French Consul in New Zealand, ans who is an Irishwoman by birth, hag been advised that her brother, Colonel Sydney Jameson, formerly of the Sean forth Highlanders, and who commanded the Ist Army Corps under General Haig | at the battle of Mons, has been honow ed by the French Government witS the decoration of Officer of the Legiojf of Honor |tor gallantry in the field; Madame Boeufve's other brother, Majolf Eustace Jameson, a retired officer ol the 20th Hussars, sixty years of agty has also rejoined the colors, and has been given the command of a regiment* He has three sons on active service—" two in the army and one in the navy,, 'The sole representative of the family in New Zealand is Mr Alec Boeufve, who) | is in Mr G. H. Fell's office in Welling* ton. Mr Boeufve, who speaks French * and German just as fluently as he doeß English, is endeavoring to obtain «j minor commission as interpreter with the New Zealand Expeditionary Foroei Mr Boeufve has no fewer thus elefeS relatives at the front, fighting either with the French or English forces, and is anxious to make the number into a' round dozen.