PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14791, 24 April 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

# -. ■ „—4 • I Me Wall-ace, Government valuer, • arrived at Tlfoame.s last. night and is staving at the Royal Hotel. **■«■*■*•** The aged Emperor Francis -Joseph of Austria is still in a grave eonditti&n. Hiis "catarrhal symptoms are unchanged. * * #■:*..■*■*■* ;■; T%e Government astronomer, Mr C. E. Adams,- M.Sc, F.R.A.S, has ' been.awarded a ■ Martin Kellogig Felj lowship in tie' Lack Astronomical Dtepartiment of the University of California. ♦ **##*# His Excellency the -Governor, the Earl ofkivea'pacl'-and the Countess 'of. Liverpool, leave Auckland for Rotorua ou'lfetiurday moa^ning. Their Excellencies will spend a ■ week afe the thermal resort!. ♦ * ♦ * # * ♦ iMir F. Black, of Wellington, consulting: engineer to the Thames, Bor'ougih Council,'.was at Thames to-rfay i looking, into miatters in connection ! with the municipal electric lighting' scheme. • *. * # ♦ # ♦ iMlajor Mac Donald, officer in ■ charge ctf N(o.. 2i area, and Capt. Dje<v, adjutant of theTßth Bauraki Itegiimenfc, have proceeded to Auckland to attend the camps to be held. ♦ # * * * * ' # ' Mr and Mirt*' Harold Spence, of . Miasterton, ai:e spending a few.-days jot Thameg and 1 express themselves 11 as highly pleased with the" district. ! The;-coastal scenery "they say is vini!:que. • ;:■ _•.•-■';.; • ; J "••♦»*♦♦• -1 The London, Maccaibean Society en- • j tertained Mr AC Myere, of iiiucklantt'. I at a dinner, says a caible, whedi many l I iprooninent statesmen were present. -! Our High Oommdissioner, ri'on. Mic--3 Kenzie, was in attenadnce. *##♦ * * * A popular young memibei" of the ■ local. telegraph staff in the person. 1 of. Mr Andrew Young has received notice of tsraiisM" to ■Wang'a'niu, the . vacanicy being, filled %■ Mv iLes Juiy, !■ of Maiftion, ,w"ho recent-ly left here tio ta£e \ip duties in, (Learaers* Gallery, ■ Wellington. During 1, his stay here : the former has proved himself a oap- ■ able officer, and "Slick," who has ' made ma,ny friends, is loth leave ■ the good people of' Thames. ' • »'■ «••-'*" •'- The death has occuiTed at his, re!,»idenoo, M't. Eiden, ffuokland,- of . Captain ■ Dor^iier, well known in'■military and vpiunteer . circles. Deceased, who had a long and interesting 1 oar--1 eer, was born in 183*9, and at the age of 11. years; joined Nelson's ship ' the Victory _as powdea' monkey. He eeirvea' on H.<Mvs, HJasitings in the Burmese campaign, in the Crimean few ott Sidon, and was wounded at^ the second -siege of Sebastapool. The veteran will be accoi"ded a military funeiial to-morrow at Auckland. Among deceased's st»n& is j Mr A. A. Bbrmer, the champion long distance runner.