PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Borne cable reports the death of Leon Cavallo, the composer. Sir Douglas Haig has taken thi title of Earl of Bemersyde. A Melbourne cablegram reports the death of Sir Henry Hodges, senior puisne judge in the Supreme Court.

Mrs. Puller, Urenui, has received advice that Iter eon, C.S.M. G. N. Fuller Is returning on HM.T. Cordoba, whiefc 1» due to arrive in Wellington on August 30.' Mr. P. A. Hoskin, Matapu, has received advice that his son, Private L. A. Hoskin, is returning on the Ellenga, due to arrive at Auckland about August 888.

An Ottawa message states that Mr W. L. Mackenzie King has bees selected by the National Liberal Federation to succeed Sir Wilfred Laurier as leader of the Liberal Party. At a meeting of the Bell Block branch of the Taranaki Provincial Farmtjrs' Union, the resignation of Mr. L, \V. Bishop, a member of the executive, who has left the district and intends to reside in the Auckland Province, was received with regret, and a resolution was passed wishing him success in his new venture.

Mr. E. Armstrong, of the lf)th Reini forcements, who recently returned from active service, and who has been*a member of the staff of Messrs. Weston and Billing for some years, has accepted a position on the legal stall' of the heal office of the Public Trust Denartmenv Mr. Armstrong leaves for Wellington this week.

An Eltham message says that persist: ent rumours are current that Mr C A Wilkinson, member for Egraont, will not be a candidate at the general election On being approached he was reticent, but it is generally understood that he will shortly convene a meeting of supporters to announce his intention of retiring from politics.

Mr. Robert Martin Wallis, who die* m Auckland on Monday, aged 76 was the son of one of New Zealand's earliest settlers the ate Rev. James Wallis, a Methodist missionary, who arrived in New Zealand in 1834. He was born at Waingaroa and was married in 1874 to Sf you "ff ßt dRU 8 1, tor of Captain Ihomas Wing, late harbourmaster at a" w"!S R ' ? ne ° f his 8on « i« Captain A. Wallis, of the steamer JFIom V

v,t ? r-°*\ le e P° rtß the death W Professor Ernst Haeckel, the eminent of 'The R,ddle of the Uniferse," "The History of the Evolution of Man," and many other scientific works. At the beginning of the war, it will be remembered, he wrote several articles violently .antagonistic tc the British and justifying German aggression and war policy, showing generally the same perverted sense as his countrymen. He ignored all his former scientific and Jinilosophic teachings and simply became a super Hun, to the disgust of his. meads and followers in other countries, particularly in America, where his fall from grace had a marked effect on educated thought regarding German cul.pability La connection with the war.