PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 13 April 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. P. ('. Thrclkchl. the well-known sheep and cattle breeder, of Fiaxton, died at Christchurch (he oilier ilny, aged 7a. Ml' 11. F. Aysou, solicitor, of (ho firm of Messrs Bunny, Rawson. and Pcl'ncr- I ick, of Wellington, is ill town on native land business. i Mr William Henry Eyes, one lime superintendent of Marlborough, died in | Wellington yesterday, aged SS years

Mr F. .T. Staples, supervisor of the \ mails department in the Chief Post Ofliee i at Auckland, was in town on Friday af- • I lernoon, and loft for Onchungu last i night by the liarawa. There were thirteen applications for the secretaryship of tile Normunby Dairy Factory. Mr 1!. C. Bobbins, of Ilawera. was appointed, and will commence his diilies on Ist May. Salaries required ranged from IMP to £:>0l). Messrs .lame* Wade and f!. Tisc'i, chairman and a member of the Taranaki I Education Hoard, with Messrs W. A. . IBallanlyno and R. (!. Whetter. the in- , 'spcetors, returned on 'j'llursdav from a

iirip (o the Whangamoinoiw district. | Messrs. (I. T. llvcroft and 11. K. Ihir'rell, Auckland delegates to the Railway I Officers' Conference to sit-in Wellington j from ib:> ]jlli inst., arrived by ibe Takapuua from Ouehmiga, and proceeded to I Wellington. Messrs. C. P. Ryan and (I. ji). Duncan are the delegates from the 'New PlyinouUi-Wnnganui section. | Mr W. K Fercival, in declining to ! again accept nomination for the lnglc- . wood Mayoralty, gave his reasons somewhat as follows:—Firstly, if it were an honor, ami it undoubtedly was, to hold that position', then lie did not think', it fair t* continue to hold that honor and therefore deprive some one else of

it, If, on the other hand, it was a tint}', and he quite agreed that it was a. 1 duty, then he thought that he had done : his share of the duty for the immediate , present, and it was not right for others I to shirk their share of that duty. He ■ also thought that in nomn respects he was not well placed as Mayor, as ho thought the Mayor of a town should he ' a married man, as the ladies of the boi rough ought to have some leading lady, \ to whom they eonld look in the neces-j l sary social 'mailers that invariably cropped up in any borough. lie therefore, feit on all" hands that he ought not to again accept nomination.