PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A vote of condolence with Mrs. A. W. Collis and family in their bereavement through the death of Air. Collis, was carried at the monthly meeting of the Pukekura Park Board yesterday. Mr. J. O’Neill, of Ngaere, who was laid up for some time as a result of an accident happened While he was riding in to a County Council meeting, is bow thoroughly recovered, and attended yesterday’s meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Inglewood County Council, the chairman (Air. A. Cork ill) expressed, regret that Or. Cowley had met with an accident and broken his leg, necessitating his removal to hospital. It was decided to send Cr. Cowley a letter of sympathy and grant him leave of absence until his recovery. Mr. W. D. Bryce, proprietor of the Chicago Ledger and several other news, papers, was a passenger from Vancouver by the Alakura, which arrived at Auckland last week. He is accompanied by his son, Air. Ben. S. Bryce, Air. Al. Taylor, and Mr. AL La Voy. The party intend spending some time in New Zealand.

The death occurred at his late residence, Waitara West, on Saturday, of Mr. Edward Antony Laurent, at the age of 58 years. Deceased went to the district from Eltham three years ago, and carried on farming. He was stricken with an incurable internal trouble, which asserted itsel( about twelve months ago, and for the past six months he was confined to his house. Deceased was well-known as a racehorse owner.' He leaves a wife and family of ten, with w-hom many friends will sympathise in their bereavement.

London accounts the Prince of Wales the best and most original public speaker the Royal Family has produced in the generation since Victoria (says the Times). Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, was the first to depart from the formal and conventional public deliverances of Princes of the Blood. He was an able and.serious young man, and his speeches at dinners and meetings were marked by fresh thought and fine phrasing, but their effect was somewhat marred by his shy and nervous manner when facing an audience The ’Prince of Wales not only a lighter touch and a sense of humor—qualities in which Prince Leopold was lacking—but is pleasantly self-possessed and spontaneous. As far as possible he discards manuscript and notes. So clear is his voice and so distinct his utterance that he can be heard by everyone in a large and crowded hall. The few words he said from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on his return from the Antipodes reached the throng even on the steps of the Victoria Memorial.