PERSONALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6371, 20 November 1907, Page 7

PERSONALIA.

A Pre?« ciiblo ho.'ii Colombo hl.'ilc'K Dial Mr Jla.rJic, M.P.. li.'ih for iSnw /wiland. Professor T. 0. R* Blunt, of Cdiristfthurcn, is a pith.s«*iiKiT by Um Maori, duo thin inorni/u; from LytUdton. Tlio doatii in onnounc-ed of ih<? Duko of Parma, at Uw ago of Llty-nimi. Ho a fortune of eight millions sterling.

Mr F. R. Ft at man (Geraldine) h*w* heeu granted leave of absen-ce Horn FarJiornentary duties for tlio remainder ol

Iho session. Admiral Sir Frederick G. D. Bedford, flovoriior of Wwt Aitstra-lia, occornwrnuHl by Rady Bodfcml, lum left foi K'ngbiTnl on a visit which will extend ..vol- boiiio six rnouUis.

Mr ,T. W. Macdonald, assistant solicitor to the Public Tmwt Ollico. ba« loft for Napier to attend the sittingo of tho Arbitration Court m representative of tho Public Trust Office. Tlio dual it tool: place at Christchurch «u Monday of Mrs doggie, wife of Mr William doggie, tor many years iconpoo of tho Caledonian Hotel, Wollinglon.

T)r W. W. Mooro, of Collingwood, Nolroii, 11 ;I./, iK'on appointed sonior medical olli.-cr of 11,0 Napior IfoMiital. and Dr Soy moil p Ilrott, resident surgeon of tho uishoruo Hospital, junior mimical olliccr. Tho Anglican Bishops of the Dominion arc, assembling in Wellington to attend ii imuiUng of tho Maori Mission Board 10-day. All Urn Bishops will ho present with tho exceiition of Dr Nelignii, oi A ueklaiid. Bishop .Mules arrived from Nelson last evening, ami Bishops .In Inis (Christchurch) and .Nov ill (Dunedin) nee on board tho steamer Maori, due

this morning. At tlio quarterly examination for volunteer officers to bo lielil in Wellington on December fth. Ibo following (illioiTri will sit:—Aeting-liiont.-Col. Vi. G. Dutbio, lot Haltallion Wellington Hide Volunteers; Captain A. J. Pethenok. D battery Ti.N.Z.K.A.; Captain J. K-wm, City Riileej Acting-Captain J. A. (,’owli.m, Ist Battalion Wellington Rifles: Acting-Captain A, M. McDiarmid. Woliingion Highland llllles; Limit. If. Marehnll. Civil Service Rifles; Acting-Lieuts. ,f. O. Roche. Post and Telegraph Rifles; W. B. Fitzgerald. No. 5 Company Engineer Volunteers; G._ L’E. Logan, Ilorelaunga M. 8.; O. S. vVdliis, .Tohnsonvi 110 [tide Volunteers; P. <lo B. Brnnilon, Uorotaunga M.lt.: and A. J. Merrltdees, Joliiiecuiville PI do Vohinteoie. The death in mmouneeti, by cable mee> nago from London. of Admiral Sir Brancin lioopold Medial toe.!:. The deceased was bom in 18X1) at Dundalk, entered tho Royal Nuvy in 1831. and served in lour voyages to Arctic: regions. In 1851 lie made a sledge journey of about 7CO miles along tho north shore of Pnrry Sound, and in 1859 discovered the fato of the expedition led by Sir John Franklin which cot out in 18-15. in tho ships Erebus and Terror, to malic out tho 6‘North-West Passage and wan lost on tho south of King William .Island. Prom 1805 to 18153 ho was Commodore at Jamaica, from 1873 to 1877 Admiral

SnporinteTKkuil: at Portsmouth Dockyard, rmd from 1879 to 1882 CoTunmnder-m-Ohii'f of the North American and \V«s.t TTHLifl.n Htatai. In 18‘»9 tho admiral published "Tlio Kabo of Sir John Franklin; Aho Voyage of the Fox.”