PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81892, 22 November 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr L. M. Monteath has been ap--1 pil.uted chaiiman of the New Ply- ■ mourn municipal electric lighting ' committee. 1 Tne Hon. Jacob Garrard, a mem--1 ber of the Sydney Metropolitan , Board of Waterworks, was a visitor r to New Plymouth for a few hours on ' Tuesday. 1 William Hall, of Wanganui, was 1 la-t nigtit appointed secretary of the - Wanganui Jockey Club, says a tele--2 giom from Wangant.li. There were r 44 applications. Mr C. G. Pair, manager of the ! TaranakU Petroleum Company, pa>s- . Ed a very gooil day yesterday, but his condition is still such as to cause r his friends very grave anxiety. :, The Hon. A. R. Guinnes-, Speaker y of the House of Representatives, has j, been confined to his home through illness since his arrival home, says a a Press wire from Greymouth. f The Wellington Post, on the ques- ,. tii.oii of the Cabinet vacancy, says s that both the Hon. T. Kelly and the " Hon. Mr Carncross have claims upon . tho party in power on account of long . and faithful service. s The visitors staying at the White ,'f Hart Hotel include:—Mr and Miss 11 Miss Dearsley, Messrs Hempton, Mc- (. Intyre, and Uoodhouse (Wellington), 3 Mr and Mrs Evans, Mr and Mrs and s Miss Clarke, Messrs Kilgour and j Pilze (Auckland), Mr Chisholm _ (Nelson), and Mr Christopher (lnvcrcargill). An old man named O'Grady died in the Greymouth Haspital 011 Wede nesday, aged 85 years, says a Press Association telegram. He joined the navy in ISSO, and went out to China . in 11.M.5. Odin in IS6O, and was prer sent at the taking of the Taku forts at the mouth of Peiho River. For „ i.l.s services he received a medal and , two clasps. For years he had been \ a miner on t'ne West Coast and was \ an old-age pensioner.