PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 228, 9 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Paris telegram announces the death of Baroness Alphonse Rothschild. Mr; T. Tankard, well-known in gymnastic circles, is on a visit to New Plymouth.

It is believed that the Duke of Connaught intends to visit Canada early in the autumn.

Mr. Kennedy, of Ceylon, and a former resident of this district, is re-visit-ing New Plymouth.

Major T. Brassey was hunting in Sussex when his horse jumped in a hole and rolled on his rider, injuring his shoulder.

King Alfonso and Senor Canalejas, the Premier, have gone to visit Melilla, the scene of the late Spanish campaign in Morocco.

Mr. W. F. Gordon, of the Lands and Survey Department's New Plymouth Office, has returned from a trip to the Old Country.

The many New Plymouth friends of Mr. W. Kerr, S.M. at Wangamii, will be pleased to learn that he has returned from his two months' trip to Australia, in company with his wife and daughter, much improved in health. He took up his duties on Friday.

Lieut. P. W. Skellcy, Wellington, and Captain 0. J. Howarth, of Mangakahia Mounted Rifles, Auckland, have been selected to join the instruction camp at Tauherenikau. The officers commanding the Otago and Canterbury military districts have each been asked to telegraph the name of an additional officer to go into camp, so as lo complotfegta number required. Tfl|f A New York cable to the AustrJSut Associated Press states that Madame Melba has broken down in healthJSp badly that it is doubtful if she willflb able to appear again at the Metropojpf Opera House, where she was appeiHK: in grand opera. Only two performawß of the season had been given. But Melba was unable to appear in the third, and the engagement had to be cancelled. The immediate cause assigned for the —va's withdrawal is serious ill-health. It was noticed, however, on the two occasions on which she uul sing that she exhibited extreme and unusual nervousness.

Mr. T. A! Urwin, vice-president of the New Zealand Veterans' Association, and an old resident of Wellington, died at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning, says a Press telegram. The deceased joined the British navy in 1853, and took part in the Russian war in 1854 and 1855. He was on board H.M.S. Iris on the Australian station, and was with that ship in 1859, when she was ordered to New Zealand in consequence of the Maori wars. He was one of the hundred and fifty bluejackets who marched from Manukau to New Plymouth, and assisted to quell the Maori disturbances in Taranaki. Mr. Urwin returned to England in the Iris, left the navy, and returned to New Zealand in 1802.

Mr. J. Orchiston has been appointed engineer-in-chief of the Telegraph Department, on the retirement of Mr. J. K. Logan, superintendent of electric lines. He was formerly in Auckland, and seventeen years ago, on Mr. Logan's appointment, he succeeded him as Inspector of telegraphs at Dunedin. Mr. Orchiston was born in Aberdeen in 1857, and arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1862. In 1874 he joined the telegragh service as cadet> and was promoted in the same year to charge of the Hawera station. In 1877 he was promoted to the construction branch at ~„ Wellington. He was subsequently sub-jjjg 1 inspector of' telegraphs for WellingtonsM* district, and was afterwards promoted toMB Auckland, and then to Dunedin. Wm The Right Rev. Dr. Wallis," Bishop of*|R Wellington, who has decided to his See shortly after Easter, was conse-gjwfc crated Bishop of Wellington on StJKf Paul's Day (January 25th), fifteen yearaiMW ago, was formerly examining chaplain to *»t| the Bishop of Salisbury, who accom- *■■ panied Dr. Wallis to Wellington on a visit, and was present at his consecration 'in St. Paul's Cathedral. Bishop Wallis, who was born at Hastings, England, in 1853, was educated at QonVille and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took the first-class classical and theologcal Tripos, and Evans, Scholefleld, and Caius prizes, being made Fellow of Caius in 1878. Dr. Wallis was ordained deacon in 1878, and priest the following year by ! the Bishop of Ely. He became dean and lecturer of Divinity at Caius College, and was examiner for the theological Tripos, and Evans, Scholefleld, and jatter year he was appointed deputy to the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity (Dr. Hart) at Cambridge. From 1888 to 1894 he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury, and was Senior Proctor of Cambridge University from 1892-93, and select preacher to the University from 1897 to 1903. In 1894 he was appointed by the Archbishop of York and the B'ishop of Durham regarding the Bishopric of Wellington, ana arrived in Wellington in January, 1895. Dr. Wallis was a member of the Victoria College Council from 1898 to 1905, and honorary chaplain to the First Battalion Wellington Rifle Voluntters (1898).