Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 196, 23 August 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

Mr and Mrs W. K. Fitzherbert were passengers fr 0 m Auckland per Rara»a yesterday morning.

Mr W. Grant, formerly manager of the Seaward Downs Dairy Company, has been appointed to the Dairy Commissioner's stall.

Mrs Ballanco left England on July 14 by the s.s. Papanui on a trip t 0 New Zealand. She expects to be absent from England about nine months altogether.

A special wire to the Wonganui Chronicle says :—Persistent reports are current still that Mr Seddon's health is worse. The family, however, continue to ivceive reassuring news.

According to the correspondent of tho Post, Mr and Mrs Goorgo Hutchison and one of their daughters have left London for a time, and are touring Franco and Belgium.

Loid Plunket, accompanied by Lady Plunket and the Hon. Miss Plunket, visited Dunedin on Saturday. On arrival at the railway station tho Governor was met, by tho Mayor (Mr Christie) and City Councillors, and 'presented with an address of welcome on behalf of the citizens. The party then drove to tho Grand Hotel. The whole lino of route was lined with spectators. There was a fair muster of volunteers and cadets to form an escort and line the streets. His Excellency witnessed a inarch past, in who oveningi ho was entertained at dinner by members of the Fernhill Chub,

Mr William Songor, an old resident of Nelson, died last week. Ho was a littlo short of 90 years of ago, and was an historic personage in the iiuiet city ol Nelson, for lie accompanied the founder of the settlement, Captain Wakefield, as personal attendant. Kt was William Songer who til st hoisted tho British flag over Nolson, on what are known as Britannia Heights, and the spot is commemorated in Nelsorn, by a tree which was planted by Mr Songer four years ago. He camo out in the ship Whitby in 1841, and ho livod (piietly for the remainder of his life, except for tho incident of the Wairau massacre, at which he was present. His wife predeceased him a couple of months ago, herself a woman of many years, and a much-respected pioneer.