About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 251, 15 December 1903, Page 2

About People.

Sir Joseph Ward is to open the Urenui post rjllice for public business on Thursday next. Mr Massey, M.H.R., was entertained at a banquet at Auckland last night. Mr Ulic Shannon, of Wellington, has been appointed handicapper for the Star sports. Mr Soddon is a passenger from the north by the Takapuna this nibming, and will leave for Wellington by the mail train. Captain J. F. Archibald, whom the Sydney Daily Telegraph describes as "a distinguished American journalist, who as war correspondent and in other capacities, has had an extTuoidmnrily eventful career," is now visiting Sydney. lie is, our contemporary adds, attached to the stall of the well known publication Collier's Weekly, has gone to Australia chiefly to study industrial question, und is under orders to proceed as soon as he has concluded that task, to the Far East, in the interests of Collier's Weekly ami of the London Daily Express. Captain Archibald sees immense possibilities in the Panama Canal. "That canal," lie said to his Sydney interviewer, •■'■ is going to be of immense benelit not only to the Unitod States, but to the nations of the world, and to Great Britain especially. 1 know positively that it is the intention of President Roosevelt tu puyh forward the completion of thai canal with the utmost expedition. Within six years it will Le (unshod, and it will mean a Jot 1.0 Australia. It will give you a direct route to New York. Your Australian ports will be ports of call for lines of steamers running round the '■globe from London to London and from New York to New York, setting out westward through the Panama, and returning by way of Suez. It will reduce rates of carriage of goods and the time of transit and will rank perhaps as one of the most important modern achievements."

From amoTug nearly 300 applicants Mr Roland Aieken, son of Mr Graves Aickin, of Auckland, has been appointed special house surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital.

An article by Mr W, Femlber Reeves, entitled "The Daughters of the House," will appaar in the l>ecem-< bur number of Murray's Monthly Review, writes the New Zealand Heraid London correspondent. The subject of the article is, of course, the Imperial Question, '"Hie Duugihters of the House" being the various British colonies, a.i2 : d Mr Reeves' object has been to place their relative positions as regards the Mother Country in a just and understandable light, avoiding any strong partisanship and dealing with th* subject from its various aspects with studious moderation and absence of any expressions or sentiments that might give needless o(Xante. Mr Reevesleeling is that the colonies liaw been ',' SC '^ U ,i lltUe to ° lnuc ' h as a mere loobball in the political .game that is now ii, progress, and that it might be well to make clear their tn.e poK'ntm with regard, not only to the fiscal question, but to other political and general matters which U '\« a t h J)leSt ". nt so " luch t0 the front. As the outcome of ill-health Mr ■Uisseli, N.S.-W. Government astroloiner, after 30 years' services has eceived 12 months' leave. It i s understood he then retires. Miss Crossley had an enthusiastic loception at Sydney on opening a short larewell season there on Saturday.

Lord Lamington, formerly Governor of Queensland, had a great reception on his arrival at Bombay to assume the Governorship of that State. 1

Pise Kaiser, who has recovered rom his recent indisposition, paid his expected visit to Berlin. Ho viewed the Art Exhibition in the afternoon, and viPited the theatre in the evening. He was given an enthusiastic reception in the streets Mr W. G. Kenrick, of Auckland, nas been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate in successions to Mr Hawkins, of Wellington. At last night's parade of the Rifles it was decided, on the motion of (Tlptain Weston, to place on record the high appreciation in which the late Private Thomas Carter was held by his comrades, the mover rolei i ing .feelingly to the many good (flailties of the .deceased, anil Mm deviation to <luty. A letter ol condolence will 'bo sent to the lale I'ri-' \ ate Carter's family, on behalf of the corps.

Mr James Muir, Now Zealand repi osentative of (ieorge Newnes, L/t'fl (London), .arrived in' Now I'lviifoulh ast evening. Mr Muir has 'contributed a series of articles 'descriptive o't Aiiw /A'aln'iu! life and scenery to such excellent publications as tihe King -anil his Navy and Army, Country Life Illustrated, The Scottish r leid, and others. He is greatly interested in the mutter of tourist attractions, and considers the Tourist Department, under Mr Donne's <lirecticni, is spleiKljid, work. Mr Muir intends to inquire fully into the sewnc at tactions «;iw.ut Taraiuild:,