Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 234, 7 October 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

Captain Peterson has been appointed pilot .and harbourmaster at Patea. Cable advice this morning is to the effect that Lady Curzon's condition showed an improvement yesterday.

Mr (J. Li. Cortelyon, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, succeeds Mr Payne (deceased) as United States Postmaster-General.

Lord Koberts visited Pa a rdeberg during h'is tour in South Africa. The Boers are disappointed that he did not stop to accept their hospitality. Mr 3). Pirani, formerly part proprietor of the Manawatu Standard, intends to establish a new pgper at Cambridge early next month, under the Utlo of the WaAkalo Independent.

I>r. Levinge is reported to have resigned the position of medical superintendent of the Sunnyaido Asylum, and to have asked the Government to relieve him as soon as convenient,

Mr Mestayer, consulting engineer to the Borough Council, arrived in New Plymouth last night from Wellington. Whilo hero he will attend to waterworks, elocituic lighting and drainage matters.

Among the inmates of the Old People's Home there is now an old representative of the 70th Regiment, Mr Nathaniel Grimes, a veteran ol the Indian Mutiny and New Zieor laud war, for both of which he holds medals.

Mr J. J. Meikle, who has been louring the colony and lecturing oi. Ivis grievance against the Crown ii: connection with his incarceration on a false charge of sheep-stealing, Wa* in New Plymouth yesterday, but the boisterous weather precluded his holding forth in Devon Street, as he purposed.