Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 206, 3 September 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

Tl>e appointment of Mr James M. Batham as Registrar-General oi Lands for the colony as gazetted. A London cable message received this morning states that Earl Grey succeeds the Earl of Minto as Gov-ernor-General of the Dominion of Canada.

Mn Felix McGulre, formerly member for Hawera, was a passenger from AucKiand yesterday morning, and went on to Normanby by the morning train.

A cable message this morning that Sir E. H. Egerton (British Ambassador at Madrid) succeeds Sir Francis Bertie (recently transferred to Paris) as Ambassador at Home. Mi- C. W. Casey, one of the champion axemen of the colony, returned to Eltham from the north yesterday to participate In the N.Z.A.A. teats preparatory to a team being despatched to take part in the big chopiwng contests in Tasmania. Mr Casey will make tho trip whether he wins in the test matches or not. Another of Tarunaki's fast-dimin-ishing little baml of early settlers has pasi«l away in the person of Mrs John Newman, who with her husband arrived in New Plymouth in 1853, and went through many of the vicissitudes coincident with the work of colonisation. The deceased lady, who had boon in failing health for some time, died on Thui-sday evening at the residence of her daughter, Mrs E. R. Morgan, Rahotu, where the funeral takes place to-day at 2 p.m.

The New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph writes —Susan Fowler, an octogenarian dress reformer, of New .Jersey, is engaged to be married to an Englishman forty years her junior. Her trousseau, according to the fashion journals, consists of one pair —a brown pair —of wedding trousers, made by hersolf, which she proudly exhibits to all callers. For twenty years Miss Fowler has worn man's attir*.

Captain Jackson Barry recently forwarded a copy of his lately published 'book to the Prince of Wales, and has received the following acknowledgment from Colonel Sir Arthur Riggc, private secretary to the Prince :—"Marlborough House, Pall Mall, July 15th.—Dear Sir, I am desired by tho Prince of Wales to thank you for the copy of your bo o k, 'Adventures and Experiences of a Pioneer Colonial,' which you have been kind enough to send for' his Royal Highness' acceptance."