Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 259, 5 November 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

Mr D. Caselberg, of Mastorton, went north by the Rarawa last night. Messrs O. Samuel and W. L. Fitzherbort were passengd.-s to Auckland last n|i|ght. A London cable messago states that tho Countess of Onslow sails by the Ophir. She .winters in New Zealand. rrofessor Carollo, tho well-known gymnastic instructor, died suddenly at Auckland on. Friday, morning of heart disease.

The Right. Bon. A. J. Balfour is suffering from phlebitis. Sir Frederick Treves, the eminent surgeon, is uttendmg hfni.

MrE. r. Webster, secretary of tho lanmakt Agricultural Society, returned last night from his visit to the Palmers-ton show.

Dr. and Mrs Walker arrived in New I lymouth lust night. The. doctor ook-s very well after his trip to the Old Country.

-\ "aval coherence at Singapore ia being, attended by Vieo-Admtirals Noel (Pacific), Fanshawe (Australasian), and Rear-Admiral Atkins 0 nWilles (East Indies). President Roosevelt was thrown from his horse at Washington and sustained a scalp wound, being rendered unconscious (or a brief space. Ho narrowly escaped striking his bead o n a boulder.

Mr Harold Ashton, advance agent for J C. Williamson's Knight-Jef-Irics Dramatic Company arrived in New- Plymouth from Stratford on i'liday, in order to make arrangements for ..the forthcoming! Season. He le.l in the evening by the Rarawa for the North.

Mr C. List, a brother of the proprietor of the Waimnte Witness; died til tho Hawei'a hospital on Friday. Ihe deceased, who represented his brother n t Kaponga, had been ill two or three weeks, having contracted an attack of fever, lie was only 23 years 0 f age, and popular in tho district.

Another old colonist has died at (iisbanie, in the poison of Mrs W. H. Steele, who arrived in Auckland by the ship Northern Bride, with her paren,tsi( Mr and Mrs J. Adotuio), in 18(ill. Mrs Steele was n niece of the late Admiral E. Adeane, who visited r V „?i mlanili '" 18ti(J . 'n command oi H.M.s. Galatea, on the occasion oi the late Duke of Edinburgh's visit.

Ihe death is announced at Oamaru ol Mr John, Church, at the age of «-l. Ihe deceased gmtleman arrived '" ) ""' a ''" in 18n - "e w as prcviousl\ prominent in journalistic cirl'u S \. ttnd as " il "»od the editorship ot the North Otwgo Times. Mr Church had also held the position of secretary to the North Otago Agricultur1' ™ .I'astoral Association since !»*-, and was lwognised as tho oldest secretary in the colony. Ho continued in active work till a year ago when failing hoalth compelled his retirvmunf.

Sir J. Logan Campbell, tho "fat'lier" of Aucvland, attained his 88th birthday on Thursday, Ho is still bale and hearty and in close attendance on. .business. Speaking- tiy a Herald reporter of what lie joEingly rc'«rred to as his long "innings,'" lie said he had never smoked ; he had'] measured his consumption of whisky, lor his whole life at about three bottles ; he hail never In his life got a drink of any kind across a public bar, and probably the most Important of th» lot, he had always e«t<?n moderately.