PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7800, 17 April 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr Hugh Tilsley is to succeed Mr A. Mackay as Registrar of Electors for Waipawn. Mr T. HutchU'on, S.M., was a passenger to Wanganui by Saturday's mail train. .Or. James M. S. Levis lias been appointed house surgeon of the Rototua Sanatorium. Mr Hector F. Davidson, of Fahiatua has resigned his commission as a Justice of the I'eaoe. Mr Alfred Fraser, of Foxton, has btcn appointed a coroner within the colony of New Zealand. Hon. 0. F. Richardson left Wellington for Sydney on Saturday aftornoon to attend the Surveyors' Conference at Melbourne. Mr P. W. Robertson, the Rhodes scholar for the year, teaves for England in July. Ho has not yet decided which college lie will enter. Mr William McCleaii, who represented Wellington in J'arlainent in 18t)2, announces bis intention of contesting the Wellington East seat at tho general election. Mr Forsyth, having resigned the position of the Egmont County Council as lie is about to take a trip to the Old Country, Mr E. Maxwell has been elected Chairman in hia stead.

Mr L. G. P. Spencer, who ivccntly reported to the Ingltwood ltorough Council on water sappiy and drainago schemes, has received the appointment of engineer to design and carry out the works.

Mr George W. Cobb will act as returning ofllccr for the first elections of the Commissioners of the now town district of Martinborough. and Mr Harold H. Richardson will act'in a like Capacity at Huntorville. Mr Duiaur, of tlic firm of Nathan and Co., who has lieen in New Plymouth for some two months, rc«I turnod lo Auckland on Saturday night', accompanied by Mrs Dufaur tod one child <

The Cromwell Argus hears that Mr Cutton, solicitor of Naseby, intends to contest the Mount Ida seat in the Government interest, aganst Mr A. !'• Herdinun, Ute present niemltcr. Mr Ramsay, of Omakau, is al«o sj>oken of.

At St. George's Church, Pa tea, on Wednesday Mr A. U. Shanks, of the Telegraph Oflice, Auckland, wus married to Misss Minnie Larson, eldest daughter of Mr W. T. Larsen, IHitoa. The ceromony was i»er{o<«ued by the Rev. R. H?rww>. Appreciation of the interest taken by Loud PlunKet in the game of Rugby football was expressed in the annual report of tho Kew Zealand Rugby I'tuon, particularly in respect to r the kindness and hospitality oxU'Wtlod by the Governor on tho occasion of th e visit of the Hntinh teum to New Zealund last year. Mr Major arrived n t Auckland from Wellington,on Wednesday, to tako'tip his duties at King's College us headmaster. Mr Major, who was formerly connected with King's College, at the outbreak of the itocr war wont out to South Africa, and after serving throughout the campaign returned to New Zealand and joined the stuff of NVison College, Two wtJi Known old Auckland renir dents, Mr und Mrs J. fi. Nuwltold, oj "Leicester Villa," College Hill, win arrived by the Caduceut 10 wars ago and have been living in Auckland ever since, celebrated their golden wedding on Wednesday last, at the residence of their oldest child, Mrs Maxwell, of I'oiißonhy. There wus a large gathering of their Children and grandchildren, aod man}' good wishes were expressed, to which Mr Newbold repfied. They were tho recipients of several golden gifts from their children.

Mr Edward Herrick, a deer-stalter from Dannevirkc, on Monday lust, says the Cromwell Argus, hud 11 miraculous eKcajio from being ktllul at Dingle, twelve miles north of Timaru creek, in the Wnwea district. Ho heard a stag roaring, and in his anxiety to secure the (>rj*o he Ml over a cliff, breaking uut of his arms, I'he sufferer trudged over rocky faces, tivo day* lioliir occupied in reaching Hnwea, where, as luck would hint it. o doctor, up for the doer-stalk ink', pul his arm in splints, A Christ(Juireh telegram says (hut 'hi' Mayor has recoivej leiixroms from the Premier intimating that Mr K. .1. Hiffhton has liee.i appointed secretary to the pujjected exhibition. Mr Kightoii is a native of that city, and hun been connected as secretary with a numhor of local movements, , the most important of which have ibeen Iho celebrations in connect ion with the jubilee of the Provincial <lis!triel and tlie Hoyul visit to Christchurch. lie luis also Im'en eoimetlti' wilh different snorts, and until recently was secretary to tile AshhurtoU Club'i