PERSONAL NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

It is almost certain (it is cabled from London) that President Taft and Mr Judson Harmon will be the only two candidates for the next Presidential contest in the United States.

A special cablegram from New York says: It is reported that Mrs Emerson McKim, a wealthy . divorcee, * will sail shortly for London, where she is to be married to Mr Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire. Mr W. S. Percy, whose name as a comedian with the Pollard Opera Company became a password to hilarity, will arrive in Greymouth on Tuesday with Mr Tom Pollard". Mr Percy is going to England shortly, and he is visiting the Coast to say farewell to the many friends he has made here.-

The Rev. Father Archibald Shaw, M.S.H., wireless expert, engineer, scientist, artist, and man of many parts, who (says an Australian exchange) is the only man in the whole Commonwealth who has really moved tp give practical aid to the Staniforth Smith, expedition party now lost in the wilds of Papua ,has spent many years as a missionary among the brown men of New Guinea and he and his companion, Brother Arnold, who recently sailed from Syydney with wireless apparatus," are as well litted as anyone in Australia to undertake the difficult work of searching for the missing expedition, tion party.