PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7811, 2 May 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr Justice Cooper lefl Auckland on Saturday for tli£ South. Mr Bocock, who is leaving the Vruti School, was farwelled at a social in the Hall on Thursday last.

Sister A. Lill, of Willowby, Ashburton. and lately of Inglewood, intends to take up mission work in China in a few months. One of the oldest natives in tho colony died at Taurangihi Pah, noar N'ukumaru, on Friday, in the person of Harnta Ilinekahu, at the age of [about 100 years!

In n private cable received from Professor Rutherford he states that he is leaving 'Frisco on May l'.*i for New Zealand, and expects to return on August 2. Mr C. Hionis, late manager of the Christclmrch Press and New Zealand Times, has been visiting friends in New 'Plymouth. He left for Wellington by the express this morning.

Mr J. H. lllair, who has been reappointed representative of the Wt>llinpton Education Hoard on the School Commissioners, has represented the Board thereon for over twenty years. Mr H. Stevenson, late second engineer of the s.s. Kotokino, has severed his connection with the Union Steam Ship Company, x and has received the appointment of chief engineer of the Electric Power WorEs at Christchurch.

Mr C. T. Mills, Clerk to the Taranaki County Council, leaves for Auckland on Tuesday evening for a week's visit. The Council agreed at Monday's meeting with Mr Mills' arrangements for Mr 11. Hose to carry out the secretarial duties during his absence. Among visi tors to Australasia at present in a young Freiich nobleman, (Miint Alphonse le Fleurrier. The Count is visiting every place connected with the explorations of the early French navigators', his great-great-uncle having been Minister of Marine who was responsible for sending out several French expeditions to Australian waters, 'lite Count, after touring Tasmania, left .recently for Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney, after which he intends visiting New Zealand for the purposu of seeing Akaroa and other places settled in early times by tho French. Mr J. Power, who is relinquishing his position in the local lleods lOtlice to enter the legal profession [and join Mr Cartiq', solicitor, of Feilding, as managing clerk, was tho recipient of a further token of esteem on Saturday evening when the law clerks of New .Plymouth assembled at the offices of .Messrs Standish and Kerr amd presonted their ddparting comrade with the eminently appropriate legal gift of bound volumes containing a digest of New Zealand law cases. The recipient heartily acknowledged the presentation, which was made ou behalf of the assembled company by Colonel Ellis.