Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 69, 25 March 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

The popular manager of i ] u - Ih-esdon I'iano Company, .Mi 1 .M. J. Jlrookes, was ill town yesterday. Mr (J. I'\ itohinson, (lovernnient Knirinecr, formerly a resident in New Plymouth, is .spending a. few days here. Mr Lindoji, manager of the.Stale coal mines, died suddenly at lircvmoiitli yesterday, it is supposed from liearl disease. Humour hath it. that. 11. JV-r----ry is (o In l asked to contest tlie New Plymouth Mayoralty if iMr H. Cock does jiot accept, nomination again.

Tlu> Dunedin Klar reports that Mr J. CI rattan Orey, formerly chief of the New Zealand Hansard sliilT, lias been appointed (alitor of the West Australian Uncord. Perth. Mr William ]{unsU-ad, who three years' ugo brought. to New Zealanil tiie party of socialists known as the Clarion settlers," is to leave Waikato licit, week for Kneland. in view of the. large amount of work to be performed in his district, Mr A. 1». Thomson, will be relieved of the work of the Marton and Jhills Caurls, and this will be taken by Mr K. L. Stanford. S.M. .John Howney, for twenty-seven .Years attendant, at. Mm Seaview Asylum, has heen appointed superintendent of \ hat institution, vice .Mr Llugli Crib-bin, who has resigned after holding the position for thirtythree years. Mr G. Fair arrived in New plymouth yesterday, and expects ;o have a boring plant landed here shortly to prosped. for petroleum on land over which he has secured boring righls. Mr I'air e.spress 1411•«11. confidence in the ultimate success of his venture. Tiiibaut, a I'ari.Man recluse, was 'omul in his bedroom in a mummified condi i ion, having apparent i v heen dead souk* weeks. He Imipiea I lied the bulk of his fortune, lo the Knglish Society of tin* Friends of IV;ice. A sum'of £56,000 was hidden behind pictures and under carpets. Mr -J. C. Hewlett, of (he Wellington .Magistrate's Court staff, who lias been promoted to the posi--1 ion of Clerk ot the Court at Stratford, was presented on Wednesday with a travelling rug from his confreres. Dr. McArthur. S.M., spoke in terms of commeudat ion of Mr Hewlett s ability and courtesy as an ollicer.