PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Lloyd George is visiting the Rhine.

The Government steamer Tutanekai was to have sailed from Auckland yesterday for the Islands, where &he is to pick up Their Excellencies, who leave Wellington on the Royal Mail steamer Moana to-day week. A New York message says that King Albert is expected to visit America for the opening session of the League of Nations.

The King of the Belgians has conferred the distinction of the Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown on Sir Thomas Mackenzie, and has made Commanders of the order Sir Peter Mcßride, Sir T. B. Robinson, the Hon. J. P. Connolly ajid Sir Frederick Young.

News has been received from Melbourne of the death of Mr Charlie Taylor, manager of the Taylor-Carrington Company, which was hastened by his ton's death from influenza. A slight paralytic stroke was followed by a more serious one, which had a fatal result. Mr Taylor was well known in New Zealand. He is survived by three daughters.

Mr Ernest E. Gillon, who for the past four years has.' been Locomotive En-ginecr-in-Chief at the Mechanical Engineer's office of the Railway Department, has been appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer in succession to Mr H. |H. Jackson, who recently retired from the service. Mr Gillon, who is the eldest son of the late Mr E. T. Gillon, for many years editor of the Evening Post, was born in Dunedin, and joined the Railway Department in 1884 as an apprentice in the Hillside Workshops. Since then he lias served the Railway Department in various capacities at Kaihu, Whangarei, Westport, Dunedin, Addington and lastly in the head office. The Rev. F. R. Blue, Pretbyierian minister at Maheno, North Otag», is dead. Mr Blue, who was only 44 years of age, was a school teacher before he entered the ministry. He was first stationed at Alexandra, and from there ho went to Maheno. He was,' a son of the late Mr John Blue, of Waianawa, Invercorg'ill. The death is reported from England of Captain Campbell Hepworth, C.8., R.N.R., R.D., who was a master mariner in the Union Company's South African mail line, and commodore of Milburn's fort line' of steamers. In when Mr James Huddart started the Cana-dian-Australian line, Cajitain Hepworth was appointed to the command of the steamsr Wairimoo, and later lie had charge of the Aorangi on the Pacific Line. Captain Hepworth gave most of his spare time to scientific subjects. He was a keen observer of the currents, and published a book on ocean currents and also one on meteorology. He was the author of "A Seaman's' Handbook/' which is used by almost every British officer afloat. When war broke out he offered his services to the Admiralty, who retained llim in his position us Marine Superintendent.