Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 250, 26 October 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

Dr. Gosimon has been elected chairman of the Congregational l.'nion at Melbourne. Mr Mnddison, architect for the new freezing works at Waitara, arrived in New Plymouth last night.

Mrs Annie Wallace, a domestic servant, has been left property in Sydney returning £2OOO per annum, under the will of a former lover. Ml' David Syme, the well-known proprietor of the Melbourne Age ha* donated £BOOO for the formation of a eitiienco research prize for Melbourne University. The value is £IOO per annum.

Old residents will learn with ixv giet of the death of yet another of our early settlers in the person of Mr Owen Murphy, who died at his residence in Devon Street at an early hour on Tuesday morning. Deceased, who was 75 years of age, was a soldier, having served in tho 65th Hftgiment, with long l-esadence in New Zealand. Of latter years lie carried on the busiiMjss of fruiterer, handing it over to his son, Mr James Murphy, when failing health forced him to retire #ome time ago.

Mr I{. J. Guthrie, of the Sydney Mail, whose agricultural writings over the signature of " Moina " have attained wide celebrity throughout the colonies, has been on a brief visit to New Plymouth, He leaves this morning by tlie mail train for inglewood. Mr Outline's visit to this colony is to study the dairying methods here, and as be is a practical farmer he may bo expected to furnish Ms with some interesting and instructive articles. 1 We hud the pleasure of a brief interview with him last evening, and 11-0111 the general trend of his remarks we conclude that he thinks New Zealand is not a bad little place.