PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. N. K. MacDiarmid, manager of the local branch of the Iknk of .vew So.utll Wales, wlio Jias been on a holiday trip during the last six weeks to Sydney and ■ tlv .south Island, returned to* Mew PCy- " mouth by the mail train last night.

Sir llemy Seton-Karr, who was lost in the Empress of Ireland, was born in India in ISti.'t, and was educated at Harrow and Oxford (Corpus Christi College). ' ire was called to the Bar in 1879. He travelled and shot big game in Western" ■America, Brit iwli Columbia, and Norway* lie was interested in Stale colonisation, • and was a member of the Royal Commission on luod Supplies in Time of • War. lie was M.P. (C.) for St. Helena, , Lancashire, ISSS-l!)0fi, n c . contented K.) .Berwieks, 1!)10. His publications include.--''The Cull to Arms," 10« M; * "My Sporting Holidays," )!)().}; and vftri- , (ins sporting articles and reviews. Ha went in for shooting, golf, bicycling, and •«< bslung, and was captain of'the Royal Wimbledon Coif Club, ISOS-0. He had & wry fine collection of American and -Norwegian sporting' trophies. , ' :