PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7796, 12 April 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

The Hon. ,1. McGowan left Auckland for (iisborne on Tuesday, Inspector Kiely, jn charge of the Wanganui polico district, is at present in New I'lymouth. Cafe Hotel, at Palmerston North mis been taken over by Mrs Tailor, Ijjtc of the Prince ol Wales Hotel, Masterton, and formerly of New Plymouth. The l'ttst states that Mr W. F. Massey, M.H.R., Leader of the Op!s expected to deliver an address in Stratford about the end of the month 1 . Mr W. 11. Ilillier, who lias filled the position of statiommnster at Temuka, Canterbury, (or a number of ieais, has retired from Hie railway service after a 'Continuous career of 33 years. The Pateu Pxvss reports :—On Tuesday thci-o passed away at his residence, at the age of 69, Samuel Caldwell, one of Waveriey's oldest residents'. Mr Leonard Northcote, formerly proprietor and odjtor gf the West Coast Timos, was recentb' admitted as a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The members of tho Stratford Fire Brigade in- farewelling Fireman McIndoe, who is leaving for Now I'lymouth, presented him with a pa'jr of gold sleeve links', expressing regret at his departure. Mr Charles Ifiorns, lute mnnager of the Christchurch Press and the Xcw Zealand Times, who for some time has been editing and conducting the business of the Hastings Standard, Hastings, has sold his interest in tho paper to Mr W. Hart. Since tho Maori Conference at Rotorua a ■ numjber of chieis have asked Mr l'okiha, of Matapu, who i*epresented the Tarunnki Muori Council, in contest the Western Maori seat at the general eTJction. lie would probably be a supporter of the Government. On Monday Capiain 1,. J. Jo.\ce, District Adjutant, arrived in New Plymouth in connection with the Easter encampment. He and Captain Webb, i(, is understood, will act as umpires at the manoeuvres, whicli will include ft sjwi)} tight,.