PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7842, 7 June 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Sir Robert Stout and the Hon. J, MucUmvan passed through New Plymouth on Tuosday on their return from Auckland to Wellington. Mr A. Jolly, accountant in the Welliiu tun office of tho Nationul Bank ol New Zealand, who is well known in the city, is to leave shortly for Tapunui (Otago), where ho lis to take up the managership of ■ the local branch. Mr E. McCarthy, formerly of the I'uhlic Works Department at ton, has been appointed to the staff of the Uorough Council at l'almerston. Mr TToldsworth, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, left for Sydney by the Moeraki. Mr T. Stubbs, well known in football and athletic ciicles, will leave l'almerston this week on a trip to the Old Country. Mr 11. Sargent, third officer of the Kotoiti.'has been appointed to a like position oil tile Takaptina. Sislor.Jean (Miss Todd), who has been a member of the nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital for over nine years, has been appointed matron of the Chronic Invalids' Home. Captain W. [•', Norbury, of the liaran'H, has lef), thqt- vessel on a fortnight's vacatioji. (Hiring hifc absence Captain Blackloi'k, of the Kia Ora. will controi the liar awn. while Mr W. I Itark, chief of the Karuwu, .will cotnmand the Kia Ora. | Among the passengers by the Ki'erra, which arrived ill AuCkßand oni Monday, was Ur. Ernest Rutherford, well known in the scientific world ii> consequence of the. important discoveries resulting from his researched into l,he propcpti.es of radium. Ho spends two months in the colony, and will prafta&y deliver a l«ciuro ill Cbristchurch.