Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 3 October 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

Mr G. Tisch was to leave Sydney on Saturday by the Mokoia for Wellington. Queen Alexandra, who is on a visit to Copenhagen, attended Professor Finsen's funeral. A cable message of Saturday's date stated that Lady Ourzon had passed a very comfortable day. Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.U., arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday evening. He returns to Wellington tomorrow. ! Mi- J. B.Connett, chairman of the Harbour Hoard, who was in Wellington for u, few days last week, has now returned.

His Honour Mr Justice Edwards left by the mail train on Saturday for Wellington, where he will attend the sittings of the Appeal Court. The Archbishop of Canterbury n nd Professor Hooker Washington, Uo famous negro teacher, and Principal of the. Tuskegee Industrial Institute, are "slumming" together in New York. j

The late Air John McGowan, Commissioner of Taxes, was buried at Wellington on Saturday afternoon. Among those present were the Hons. C. H. Mills, T. Y. Duncan, A. Pitt, and many of the under-secretiiries and heads of departments. | Mrs Darius Shuttloworth died at lUnui on Saturday morning in heri Sfith year. The deceased was a veryold settler in Taranaki, having arrived here in 1854. She was twice married, first, in 1855, to the lata Mr Collins, und again in 1870, (fl the late Mr Darius Shuttloworth, who died in 1901. Since her last bereavement Mrs Shuttloworth has been in varying health. I

Death has removed anotlier of| Taranaki's early settlers, in the person of Mrs Elizabeth .Julian, relict of the late Mr Richard Julian, who had predeceased her about a year. Mrs Julian, who was 82 years of age, went through all the hardships incidefftal to colonisation work, and enjoyed good health right up to the end, death (which occurred at the Taranaki Hotel, of which her son Henry is licensjo, yesterday morning) being due to natural causes. A very pleasant function took placo at the Town. Band hall on Saturday evening, when a nunilier of th>|

printers of New Plymouth assembled to bid f a rewell to Mr A. Smith, late of Messrs! Hooker and Co.'sj st n ff, who is leaving for Gistborne. A couple of hours were socially spent with musical items, and light refreshments were handed round. During tlie evening Mr Shea, in a few appropriate remarks, asked Mr Smith's acceptance, on behalf of his■ fellow-craftsmen, 0 f a handsome jr'lver-mounted walking stick, as a' slight token of tho esteem in which 1 he was held by them. The recipi-j cut's health Was toasted with musical honours, Mr Garry presiding at' the piano- Mr Smith, in replying, was quite surprised at tho unlookedfor gift, which would always bring bock recollections of tho many good times he had spent with the "comps" of New Plymouth.