About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 241, 10 November 1903, Page 2

About People.

I ■ * ) I Mr E. A. Dowden, who has for , . many seasons been connected with the local produce grading office, ! ai'rivud in town on Saturday eveii'iag, and takes up his duties immediately, He anticipates a heavy , output oi' dairy produce this year. j ; Mr K. Spence, solicitor, was in town yesterday, staying at th«j Oitei'ion Hotel, Mr T. E, Hamorton, editor of the Inglewood Kecord, was in New Plymouth yesterday, I Dr. Scott, who was recently at- ! tending to Dr. Paget's practice in Stratford; has pst-tltxl -down in Gisborne; The N.Z. Times states that Mr F. !,V. Cullen, of the Lands and Sur-i I vey Department, has 'been temporarily "appointed to act as receiver of land revenue at New Plymouth, pending the appointment of a successor ■tc the late Mr Doile. Mr Cullen " formerly transacted the duties whilst Mr Doile was absent on sick leave. Mr H. C. Cameron, Government Produce Commissioner, leaves by the i ,San Francisco mail steamer en i route to London. One of tlHi most, successful farm- ■ crs in Canterbury, Mr James Johns, ■ of Belfast, 'died last week. He was well known throughout the colony as a bleeder of Shropshires and South- . downs. In a private letter received recent-j , ly at Christchurch Sir John Hall ', stated that he expected to leav.e Eng--1 land on Nov. 5, aiwl hoped to land in New Zealand before his 80th birthday. / The death is announced of Mrs Eliza Billing, a very old resident of New Plymouth. The ranks of Wellington's earliest settlers have been further thianed by 1 ths death of Mrs Mary Chappeli, wife of the late Mr Henry Campbell. The deceased lady came to ■ Wellington 45 years ago in the 1 ship Oliver Laing. 1 line young Aucklander who was re--1 ported by cable to have been drown--3 ed while bathing at Guiinedah, Syd- '■ ney, was Welburn Finlay, son of Mr c W. Finlay, of Kemu'era. He was 19 " years of age. Mr M. H. Brown, travelling r«- :■ presentativu of the Bile Beans Co. i" for New Zealand, is at pivseut in . town. ) Professor Klot/., of Canada, who is ) engaged in making an astronomical survey of the world, left Sydney for New Zealand on Saturday. " Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.K., ro--1 turns to Wellington by this mora--1 ing's express train.