PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mdllc. Dolores will arrive in Ni'hon by tho Mapourika from iWcstport early this morning, .ami will stay at the Masonic Hotel.

A Brisbane cable announces the death of Mr Bell, Speaker of tho Assebly, of appendicitis.

A London cable says that, Mr Asquith's 13 year old daughter Elizabeth is suffering from inflammation of the lungs, and the Premier and Mrs Aeqwith have hurriedly gone to Switzerland.

Tho Kaiser and the Empress nre attending the- bedside of their sailor son, Prince Adelbert, who is suffering from appendicitis, at Kiel, says a Berlin cable.

Another of Marlborough's pioneers, in the person of Mr. liichard Mc'lsaae has passed awny ivfc Kenwioktown, says the "Express." rH>» deceased ge'nt'eman was born in Glasgow exactly 80 years .ago, and at the ago of ten years he accompanied his parents to New Zealand leaving London in the .-■ood ship Clifford in tho year 18-li. The Melsaac family landed at Nelson on May 15th, 1842, and mad.-' a short sojourn in that place. Young Richard soon showed of what he was niade oy taking a mob of sheep from Nelson to Canterbury, via the Barefell Pass, being tho first person to undertake tho arduous task. Upon this occasion Mr. Melsaac had a rough and trying experience, but succeeded in landing his sheep at their destination with the lor-s of a very small percentage, which succumbed'to extreme cold and to th:> doady tutu. Mr. Mclsaac was one of tho first to settle in the YVairau district arriving there in 1851. He was married in 185S, and in May, VMS, celebrated his golden wedding. There are left to mourn their loss live sour., and two daughters, his brother Mr. W. It. Melsaac, of New Plymouth, and his sister Mrs. Barton ,of Onamr-lutu, in addition to thirty-five grand-child-ren and coven great grandchildren.

Archdeacon Crossley recently mad? a statement to his parishioners nt All Saints', St. Kilda, in reference- to his appointment as Anglican Bishop of Auckland. He said ho had had no hand or part in tho matter. When in Sydney he, had been tod by a Bishop in Australia that he had suggested his (the Archdeacon's) name, and that was all he knew about it prior to the election. Every priest and layman in the Auckland Synod had a vote. The matter had been under consideration for three months, during which many inquiries were made. Then, after the Synod had sat for two days, the vote was taken. He had, since accepting the call, received the kindest of cablegrams, telegrams, aud letters from Bishops, priest,?, and laymen in Australia and New Zealand. Many of his clerical brethren were impressed with tho great responsibility of the task he had undertaken, and he had asked for their prayers. The date of his consecration had yet to be fixed by the Primate, of New Zealand. In conclusion, the Archdeacon expressed some regret at leaving his work at All Saints', but said th<> good slate to which the affairs -of the parish had attained was an earnest of a promising future.