PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Hon. Mr. Macdonald will bo leader o* ihe Liberal Party during Sir Josepl( Ward's absence abroad. ' Sergeant H. Fraser, of the 19th Rein*' forcements, arrived in New Plymouth! yesterday on sick leave. He expects]to return to camp early next week. ; His Excellency the Governor hag ap-< ; proved of the appointment of Mr. C. IV Bellringrr as a member of the Board o( Trustees of Pukekura Park. \ Mr. J. Gardiner arrived in New.Ply< mouth yesterday to spread the tiding* of the coming of the well-known American hypnotists, the Norwoods, on Wed*. nesday, September 0. j Sergeant-Major F. W. Fagan, whfl| was discharged from camp a short whih} back owing to a slight knee trouble, has been called up for immediate He left for Featherston Camp yesten day. i General Brnssiloff wag one of the firs* commanders to realise that the present) was is an engineers' war. He belieyes inj technique above everything. Not cOn< tent to sit at headquarters or fill in his! time in inspecting the staffs of corps and! divisions, he spends much of his in the actual firing line. Men and offl« cers must see him, and "feel" him, ha avers. Only in such a way is a truai union created between the chief and) tho army. , Prince Christopher of Greece is, I ami told, says the London correspondent of the Daily Despatch, about'to become en. gaged to a you lg and wealthy American widow well-known in London society* There are, however, difficulties in the] way of the match on account of the* lady not being of Royal birth. Prineq Christopher is the youngest of the bro* thers of King Constantino. After thd unfortunate war with Turkey, in 189?,' when military reform was in the air, he. was compelled, as were his brothers, to. resign his commission. Reinstated before the second war, he served in thei Salonika campaign. Subsequently, when the Greek court became a house divided against itself over the great war, he sided, with his brother, with the French Russian, and British leanings, againt* the German element represented by hi? •eldest brother and his wife. Lord Kitchener, ever since the war began, had shown great attentivencss tcf Queen Alexandra. Hot a week passed in which he did not pay her a long visit at .Marlborough House, and nearly always he brought away a list of those combatants her friends desired inquiries mada about, and within a few days he delivered her the desired inforinatiqn. It is said she was so grief-stricken on hearing of his death as to be quite indisposed, and therefore unable, as well as too sad, to attend tho monster bazaar at the Caledonian Market. Lord Kitchener had promised to be her giiesi during the coming summer at Sandringham, And there was a very strong bond of sympathy between these two, who were two of the loneliest figures pro* rainent in contemporary London.