About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 4, 6 January 1904, Page 2

About People.

llr Johannes iVth'i'svn, the new Government Hairy Expert, will be sta'Uramid at I'ulmerston North, from which cantre l>e will work the surdistricts, including Tarauuki ai.d Ilawke's Bay. Mr A. M. Conroy, secretary to tho liawora Industrial Exhibition, wu;; in New Plymouth on Tuesday on business connected therewith. A New York cable announces the death of General James Longstreet, a notable Confederate General, in his 83rd year. Advice was received ot Wellington on Tuesday that the Hon. W. 0. Walker, Speaker of the Legislative Council, died at Christchurch that morning of heart disease. Mr Carnegie's gifts in 1908 amounted to £4-,200,000. John l''it-/igerald, an old identity of the Pembroke district, Otago, and discoverer of tho Creil'el diggings died on Monday as a result of a tire in his -hut. It is reported tihwt Oo(|jtain Garey, of the (.'aiMdimiu-A.u»traH«n wail steamer Mourna, litis resigned fi-om hlwj U'nion Company's service. There are now in A'uckiaiiiid three Natal politicians—Messrs Maurice S. Evans, 0.M.G., Thomas H*?n'i*y Sloy, M.L.A., aiifd Geo. S. Armstrong, M.I-/.A. They are information as to the resources of the colonies', more particularly as regiards pastoral and dairying industries-. They speak decidedly ot the uselessn««s of unskilled labour going to South Africa. Mr J. S. Greig and Mr H. Klrsch, o l ' Stifatford, were passengers by the express ti'aan lost nig/h-t, amU proceeded by the Takapuna to Onehnjiga.