About People.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1904, Page 2

About People.

Mi' Clhitfi. lilomlield annl Miss liloniiielld, artists, of Auckland, are in town, aii'd lor I'V' fortnig'iit will \, v Ultgafevd ill seeming sketches and oil puiiitiiigs of scenery in the neighbouihood. Mr kulnnm\.is- lv:is haimled in lvis resigiaition as borough Cuuitcilliw, t«< take effect from Monday night's Council meeting. lie will Ix? a l-hicL loss, 'or 'he was ''new blooid," for wiiiich tiie local people have been asking so loivg. Mr IVth.*; ick, lately alitor of t'h<> l'alea Tiess, and formerly of tl,e 111gi.'ewooi! liecoid, lias received an appoiiitmeiit on Hit* stall' of the I'aiftiatua Herald. l'rior to his leaving lor Jjis new sphere of action Mr I'etiie-ric-Ji received a presenilation! IVOIII the stalf of Hie I'l'ess.

Constable Dawy, of liigk'wooU, lias Iwiir placed ill charge' of the Norinanby district. Till' funeral of I,lie late Hon W. C. Walker tool; place yesterday urt-.-r----ivooii' at Oliiisti-1, larch, and was largely atten'ded. Hons. W. Ilaill.lones, T. Y. llunean, luntl Colonel I'itt represented 1 he T\iitiis.11\ awl the lions, Stnxviis, lii'gig, Wigram, Holt, aaid Twainey, and Messrs Taylor, llavey, ICII, Witty, Tanner, r.auiviison, Flutniaii, auul Hardy the U-yiw-lature.

A press telegram states that Mr A. Turuimll, Stipendiary .Magistrate at Napier, has I veil transferred to W-.vntgauni, where lie will act as Registrar of the Supreme Court, and wyM al v v> carry out Magisterial duties in the district.

Teachers at present assembled in Wellington in connection with a conference of native wbool teachers yeslei'duy presented Mr J. 11. Tope, wilw recently retired from the |;osition ol' Inspector of Native Schools ' after 2~> years' service, with a hundsome walnut lunik-caw and a nuni'iber of vo'luiiK's. Mr Pojve was l also presented w'itili a gold frame amd silver Mjuvtacle case from the natives of Pomoana, on the Wttngumii Klver. News has been received at Dnnedin ol the death ill I-onilnn of Mr dames Smith, banister, for many years in practice in IHinedin as a ii.eiii'lier of the ILrm of Smith and Anderson. A Sydney cable announces the death of Mr Jno. Karrell, the wellknown journalist and poet. Tom llann, the Labour Champion, is repo'rtcd to be re-tiring from the public, platform to take up funning in Victoria.