Personal Notes.
Sir .Joseph Wand leaves Wellington for Napier this morning;. fable advices yesterday, stated that I.ady Cuiv.ou'a condition was showing signs of improvement. Mr S. Hill, Government Valuer, led for Wellington .yesterday to attend the funeral ol' the late Mr llc-(-iowan, Tax Commissioner. Tile mad speculation* in wheat which ia again agitating thu great grain towns of the United States has once more 'brought into prominence Mr Jogn W. Gates. " The biggest plunger on Wall Stain," his friends cull him. Always ready to bet on aiiythiißg, he has risen, though lie is only forty-eiight, from being a farmer's boy to the position of one of the money kings of America. It was ho who first saw tho possibilities of barbed wire for fencijug purposes, and he owed his rapid rise to Ilia consolidation ol' the conflicting elements in that industry into the American Steel and Wire Company with a capital of £18,000,000. Air Gates' favourite pastime ol' late years ha.9 been in checking the vasl financial schemes of Mr Picrpont Morgan, who refused to give him a place in, the directorate of the Steel Trust, on account of his gambling proclivities,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 229, 1 October 1904, Page 2
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192Personal Notes. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 229, 1 October 1904, Page 2
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