About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1904, Page 2

About People.

Mr c. l'. tikerrett, the well-known lawyer, who has left Welli'iiijto'iv for liiigluiAl, will instinct counsel in London reg-aitd-iny the Newtown licensing appeal, which will be heard by the .Judicial Committee of the I'rivy Council in March. He is not e.vpectid back in the cofo-nv before Not. 1. A wvAlintf, which nltractid more tlvuin ordinary interest, tootc place in Holy Trinity Church. Waiulcu, on UoKing Hay, the ciinlractiiH.- parties being Ah- Walter Cobouraie, lale of lliawei'a, aiml Miss Clara Muti-d Hill, yoMngvst daughter ui Mr .lames' ~ W'uniltfi. There to witness tin' ceremony. Air .James 11. Cuaus, gvnenil manager of tin' National iinivk of Krw Zealand. Wellin K lim, ia iniilcr-oing u course of Aix inassu K ,> treatment ill Hie Covernnient bntlus at Uoloi-ita. Mr A. C. File, chief acconnlnnt in Wv ltailway IVnartment, has retired K\U'V n- pei-iud of service extending c«er illi years, llr Fife was the originator of the system of railway accounts at luvsenl. in vogue. The Kdurulional institute, now inivtiiiH at Nelson, on Wednesday recoiMed its hi K h app.-eriution ■of Hiu valnuilile services l-jirdrred bvlliu lute J lon. W. ('.. Walker to ' the cause oi education in New Zoalanil. Ur < ■ '''• Hill, sun ionn,aster at -Masterton, i,s sulVering from n complete breakdown, the result of overwork. Mi- T. Cooper is ielievin M him at the Mas-teiloii raihvav .-lalion. Mr W. Havaney. the secretary of the Tarannki Xirwmillcr.-;' As'sociatipit, is fjpiioiisfv affected in health owing' to his h«vi„ fi contracted a form of tuberculosis while milking The disease has attacked his hand, and it is .stated that the medical men whom he lately consulted at TTew Plymouth have advised him that unless the hund and forearm are operated upon immediately there may he somo danger to his life. A Nelson Press wire states that Mr Cuthbert, of Duiiedin, lias bee,, selected for the post o< dispenser of the Kclsoa hospital.