PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 20, 18 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

His Worship the Mayor is still confined to his room, but showed slight improvement yesterday. Mr. F. Goudie, formerly of the firm's Wellington huu-e, hns joined Messrs. Sargood, Son and Ewcn's local branch, succeeding Mr. E. B. Bullock, who is ta be shortly transferred to Auckland. Several changes will take place in the Canadian Cabinet owing to the appointment of Sir Frederick Borden as High Commissioner in succession to Lord Strathcona. Sir E. Macdonald, member for Picton, Nova Scotia, will probably be successor to Sir Frederick Borden, as Minister for the militia. Mr. Brodeur, Minister of Marine, will probably get a seat on the Bench. Mr. Lcmieux, Post-master-General, will be transferred to the Marine Department. Captain P. Thompson, formerly in the service of the P. and O. Company, has been appointed to the combined* position of harbormaster and sccretarv, under the Waitura Harbor Board. Captain Thompson joined the Royal Navy in 1898, and attained the rank of lieutenant, resigned from the service, and entered that 'of the P. and O. Company as fourth officer, and received a Board of Trade certificate as master of a foreign-going ship. He later joined the pursers' department, and was thus engaged until Janunry of this year. He is 28'/i> years of age. The engagement is announced of Captniii Anthony H. Rassam, New Zealand Staff Corps, Wellington, late of the Border Regiment (Eng.), only son of the late Sir Hormnzd Rassam, archaelogist and explorer, Brighton, to Miss Gladys Jardinc, daughter of Mr. J. F. Jardiiie, of Lincoln road, Napier. It is interesting to recall that Hormuzd Rassam was sent as Special British Envoy in 1804 to King Theodore of Abyssinia, who kept him in chains for nearly two years. He conducted the Assyrian explorations in 1870-82, and during the Turko-Russian war was sent by the British Foreign Office on a special mission to Asia Minor, Armenia and Kurdistan, to enquire into the communities. His two volumes on "British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia, with Notices of the Country Traversed from Massawah through the Soudan, the Amhara and back "to Annessly Bay from Magdnla," were published iu 1809. He died last year.