PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 776, 20 March 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

—, • Archbishop Redwood is a passenger by the Wnikare from Sidney. A marriage has been arranged bewcen Miss Ada Crossley and Br. Francis Mueekc, of Adelaide. The Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George has been conferred on Lord Selbornc, who succeeds Lord Milner as High Cammissioner for South Africa. His Excellency tho Governor Lord (Plunkct, has accepted the invitation, ''fit the Manawatu, Racing Club to foe iprcscnt at the local race meeting next month. Garcia, inventor of the laryngoscope, celebrated his hundredth birthday in London. He received countless congratulations, including those from King Edward, the Kaiser, and King Alfonso, of Spain. Princess Victoria, who has been ill with appendicitis, is convalescent, and embarked at Portsmouth with I the Queen to visit Lisbon. A hi lev message states that the Royal I yacht sheltered in Portland, owing to rough weather. Air James Wilson, manager of the Stratford branch of the Union Bank jpf Australia, has been transferred to ileiliournp.. and will leave early this I week. Ho will bo succeeded by Mr jW. G. C. France,, of Wellington, who I has alneady taken up his duties. I Dr. Findlay, who unsuccessfully contested the Wellington City at last general election has stated definitely {,O. a Post reporter that he will not stand at tho by-election, nor will he be a candidate at the general' elecI'tioK. On the 9th inst., at Sydney, Mr Charles E. Paterson, a. prominent member pf the Order of Druids, Was 'fa'rewojlcd by his friends, prior to leaving Sydney to tak'c up his residence in New Zealand.

Jfr (■'■ Petersien,| tho advance aficnt (or Vflirth Bros.' l Cjrcns, was lift town on Saturday arranging for th'e visit here of this eomlbjnation, The tent will he pitched on Poverty Flat.

I Thp following military instructors feive been re-engag«d by the Defence Department (or a further term of two years from October last:—Sergt< W* Sanderson, Col,-Ber|gts H, Pe ftock, W, Hoar, A Cheater, W, Kneej, IF. Farthing, H, Taylor. 11 Mr Langlcy, of Foxton, caterer I for tire Stratford Hoeing Club, met ■ I with: a nasty accident at the course • on Friday morning. I-fe was running !2 tiK lullch eon booth when ho stippled on a banana peel, falling heavily. ,Pn.o of the gmall bones of the left | forearm was fractured. Mr Langley • was attended t ft by Dr, Fagot. | Mr W. T. Jennings, M.H.11., has , received fi telpgram from the lion. |H. Hall-Jones, Staliiig that he is , compelled, by circumstances, to postpone his proposed visit to Taranakl | till next month. The Minister for | I'ublic Works will notify Mr Jcniiiings later on as to the date of tijs visit;. I Mr 11. Boiton lias fyepu appointed , headmaster of the commercial section of the Wellington Technical School. He has had a long'thly experience at Home, chieily at Manchester, where for years he w u s principal of the Col)ege of Commeice. Mr ..lolmßoyle, assjsta,nt master at the'' , Strajtllord; High School, has' been aii.pointed mathematical master. Each position carries a salary of 1:230 per annum*

A Christchureli telegram says that Mr Ronayne, General Manager of the J?/>i!vvflys, is tawing for Auskland on Monday on big way to Washington by the 'l<(.'isc9 stMuiej.-. At Washington )ig W jif represent.'the.' colony at the International Conference of Railway Doipgates. After the close of the conference in) will travel (.0 .Great Britain. He expects to bo abI sent about six months. During his i absence no temporary appointment ! of a manager will be made, but the JitWils 0/ tho 'three departments (Mr Coombc (of tha permanent way), Mr Bentty (of th« locomotive branch), and Mr Buxton (of tho Trafflj; Dppartment), will administer their departments under the direct control of