PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81889, 16 November 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Constable Woods is oxpected to leave for his new station at Foxton about the 20th inst. Mr D, Berry has been re-appointod ehairman of directors of the Taranaki Petroleum Company. The appointment of Mr Edward Tolme as a Crown Lands Ranger for tiie Taranaki district has been gazetted. Madame Dolores and Company will arrive in New Plymouth on Saturday, and will stay at the Criterion Hotel.

A Press wire states that the Hon. Mr Carroll has sufficiently recovered from his severe attack of pneumonia to i onable kirn to leave for Gisborne.

Six of the children of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Plunket are to leave for London by the steamer Athenio, in charge of a governess and a nurse Several of them are going Home t) be educated,

Captain Grant, well-known formerly as tho captain of the Takapuna,,iß at present seriously ill, suffering from the after-effects of influenza. Captain Grant, who has retirodfrom the service, now resides at Onehunga. Duncan William Mcintosh, an old

resident of Masterton, and far many years secretary of the Wairarapa Farmers Co-oporativo Association, died last night, aged 6L The Hon, A. Pitt, who has been critically ill in Christchurch. passed a good afternoon yesterday, having had about three hours sleep, and late last night was reported to be progressing favorably.

At St. Mary's Church yesterday, Mr F. Cornwall was married to Miss Totty Lye, second daughter of Mr D Lye, of New Plymouth. The Rev Mr .Evans officiated. Mr and Mrs Cornwall left by the afternoon train for South on their honeymoon trip,

. Donald MePh.ee, aged 79, a resident of Wairarapa for the past fifty years, died at Gladstone yesterday. Mr McPhee was at Bendigo at the time of the Eureka stockade, and later took part in tho Gabriel's Gully and Blue Mountain goldfield rushes in JN'ew Zealand. —l'ross wire

Amongst the visitors at the White Hart Hotel at present are the following :—Messrs ilichards (Palmerston iNortk), Miller, ivtciienzie, Payne, Cunningham (Wellington), Biss (Wangauui), Brown, Davy, Abbott (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Mills (fNelson), Mr and Mrs Webb (Sydney).