PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Brigadier-General W. Meldrum is on a short visit to New Plymouth. A telegram from Dunedin says Mr. John Lindsay, ex-Mayor of Green Island, died suddenly yesterday.

A Dunedin message reports that the death occurred on Thursday of Mr. Daniel Haynes, aged 87, one of the founders, in 1861, of the firm of Herbert Haynes and Co'., drapers. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who had to seek re-election on accepting a new position of emolument in the British Ministry, has been re-elected unopposed foe the Birmingham West seat.

Dr. H. W. Cleary, of Auckland, intends paying/a visit by seaplane to the most northern part of his diocese. Bishop Cleary expects to visit Russell, Whangaroa, Mangonui, Houhora, Kaimaumau, Awanui, Ahipara, Lake Ohia and Parengarenga.

It is announced that Dr. J. M. Christie has been appointed president of the newly-created War Pensions Appeal Board (says a Press telegram from Wellington). Dr. Christie is at present on hie way back to New Zealand from England. Further appointments are expected to be held over until his return about the middle of the month. Lord and Lady Jellicoe arrived at Blenheim yesterday afternoon and received an enthusiastic welcome from a large crowd of people and school children. The Mayor (Mr. Read) presented an address of welcome. His Excellency, replying, referred to the golden agricultural scenes witnessed on the journey from Picton, which reminded him of similar scenes in the Old tJbuntry. In the evening their Excellencies held an informal reception at the Town Hall.

What is there in the Australian air (asks a writer in a London journal) that develops the genius for cartooning? Phil May—born in England: “Hip”— born in America, ufhere he fought in the Civil War, and used to boast that he was the only man who escaped a coloneley; and David Low—born in New Zealand—have all done brilliant work there, while Norman Lindsay and Will Dyson are two of the many native-borji whose fame has gone abroad. In England at this moment, I believe that all those who know his work —not only New Zealanders and Australians keen to exalt a fellow-countryman—would admit that there is not another cartoonist to equal Low. Perhaps because he is a New Zealander by birth, his humor and his satire are not so cruel as those of most Australian humorists, but his genius for ridicule is enormous,, and he has wonderful capacity for summing up a situation in half a dozen lines with his pencil and three words from his peri. Low must be worth a mint of money to the Star, and I hope that it duly appreciates the fact.