About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 262, 4 December 1903, Page 2

About People.

Among the visitors staying lsst evening at Uje Criterion Hotel were Miss Ada Grossley, Mrs Donne, Herr Scherek, and 2\lr l'elerkin. Mr and Mrs C. K. Major, of Bawera., are hi town, ami are slaying at the Criterion.

Lord Northeote, the Federal Go-vernor-General elect, was tendered a 'banf.juet before leaving London for Australia. The function was attended ■ 'by a representative gathering, including the Agents^General. The deaths are announced of two ■gentlumun- p romincnt ill London newspaper' circles : Sir John K. Hobinson, former numaigier of the Daily News, and Mr William James 1 nnes, sportsman and journalist, who took a prominent part in the promotion of the sculling championships of the world a few years ago. A Sydney cable states'fhat the Bishop of Calcutta left for New Zealand- by Wednesday evening's steamer.

Mr Harper, chairman' of committees in the West Australian Parliament, has own elected Speaker in place of the late Sir James Steere. Mr A. Kyngidon, formerly wellknown in Tara'ii'aki, returned on Wednesday from a tour a'biroad, spent mostly in Japan. Duripg the visit of Cardinal Moran to Home his secretary, Dean o'lJaran, was raised to the rank of Monsignor.

The Count de Vaya, who is making a tour of the colontes, waft a passenger for north by the Takapuna, having come up from Wanganui by the mail train.

Mr Harry Good returned .on Wednesday from a visit to America, England and the Continent, during which he travelled over the Siberian railway, and thence through Manchuria to Japan.—lTawera Star. Mr b\ Dlumtree, of Strafford, who has been on a trip to the Old Country, was expected to return last eveving.