PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14398, 5 January 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A Vienna cablegram states that the Emperor Francis Joseph, who has been indisposed, is now better. Mr. Morgan Carkeek, who has been a surveyor in the Government service for tho best part of half a century, is about to retire.

Tho Rev. Mr. Rawnsley, at one time vicar of Waiters, has accepted the offer of the Patutahi parish, Hawke’s Bay . A Melbourne cablegram states that Messrs. Hughes and Batchelor are passenders by tho Mocraki for New Zea- *j land. /

A press message states that Professor * A. W. Bickcrton has published a letter in the Times a column in length describing his impact theory apropos of tho : discovery of a star of the eighth magnitude in the Milky Way. _ He also read a paper before the British Astronomical Society. The Hon. Cyril Ward, a brother of Lord Dudley (Governor-General of Australia), arrived in Auckland on Sunday and went on to Taupo for 6om© trout fishing. In Wellington the Hon. Mr. Ward and his wife, who accompanies him, will be the guests of the Governor (Lord Islington). Three' vacancies caused by the nonacceptance of positions as adjutants under the new defence scheme by Captains Poacho and Blair and Lieutenant Coupnr have been filled by the selection of Captain Ring (Nelson), Lieut. Robinson (Petone), and Lieut. Gibb (Auckland). Sergt.-Major Lambert (Wellington) and Sergt. Walker (Millerton) havo been selected to fill vacancies as uon-coiu-missioned officers.—Press Association.

There are at present quite a number of Australian politicians in New Zealand, including the Hon. Sir William Lyne, M.P., the lion. J. Drysdalo Brown, brother of Mr. Vigor Brown, M.P., Attorney-General of Victoria, and Mr. Leveiu, M.P., who are at present in Auckland, the Hon. W. A. Holman and tho Hon. G. S. Beeby, Ministers of the New South Wales Government, at Rotorua, and Mr. C. G. Wade, header of tho Opposition in the New South Wales Parliament, who is in Dunedin. ’

Home papers report the death of Mrs. Kipling, mother of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, at tho Gables, Tisbury, Wiltshire. She was Miss Alice Macdonald, one of tho remarkable daughters of the late Bov. George B. Macdonald, whose house soite forty-five years ago'Was a wellknown centre of an artistic and literary circle. Sho married Mr. John Lockwood Kipling, C.1.E., in 1865, the year of his appointment as architectural sculptor of the Bombay School of Art. One of her sisters was married to Sir B. Burne-Jones, and another, who married Sir Edward I’oyntcr, died in 1906. Mr. J. Strauchon, Surveyor-General, and Mr. Humphreys, who formerly held that position, will leave Wellington on January 12 to attend tho conference at Hobart of the Federated Surveyors’ Boards of Australasia. Among the matters to bo discussed is an invitation from Lord Crewe to representatives of the surveying staffs of tho British colonies to a conference in Loudon, to consider the creation of a surveyor’s diploma which will bo current throughout tho Empire. The Australasian conference opens on January 18, and Mr, Strauchon intends visiting Melbourne and Sydney afterwards.