Personal Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3522, 16 May 1905, Page 2

Personal Items.

Mr Alf. 1 Fraser left' for Wanganui vesterday to attend the monthly meet*! ing of the Education Board.

General Booth arrived at Sydney from Auckland on Friday. He expresses deep satisfaction at the work of Army officers in New Zealand.' The death is , announced at ; New Plymouth of Antonio Rodriquez,"ah old Maori War vetsran, who distinguished himself by signal bravery during the native troubles" in Taranaki, His behaviour on March nth, 1864, so struck ! the officer commanding the forces that he recommended Rodriquez for the New Zealand Cross, which was awarded him.

Mr W.’ F. Massey, k Leader Of the Opposition, passed through Palmerston 00 Friday en route for Stratford, where he last night gave an address replying to Mr Seddon’s recent speech there. Mr Massey states that ho is well satisfied with his four''of th'b colbny, and thinks.theqjcospects of Ifie f gart)| are muclTlmproved; . . ? , Mr G. W. Russell is definitely “ out ” for the Riccarldn seat at the General Election.' ;

An old W-Tiugfon resident, !Mr Henry Barite;; d:ed -ai Saturday,' from the rupture of a bl md. ves-el 'in th : brain. \he deceased geinleinen, who was 67 years of age, was vyell-kuowri in Foxton, where he was a regular visitor on bis 'way t - the Himatahgi Tim, which was owned bv !iim and managed by his son, Mi- Oiho Barber. Mr;R. MI. Barber f .of'!b;.‘ firm of R. H.f-Barber and Uo...enginm r-,; ;tf Foxton, was a

nephew. ■ '' ‘ The Rev. Fadi n' H tys has concluded his temperanc" (va ade in Westport, oyer five .hundred having taken his temperance pledge..