PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 1 November 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Colonel Hume, Inspector of Prisons, was in New Plymouth yesterday. ilr M. Marcus, the well-known theatrical manager, is on a visit to New Plymouth, staying al the Criterion.

Mr Foreman, a member of tlie Jixcculivo of the National Hairy Association, I who has been attendiug a meeting at laiineroton, relumed last night. Mr jDav.d Banks, Clerk of the Court at Hastings, has received notice of liis irmisfer lo Hawera, taking up his duues there next week.

iU. \\. iS. Douglas, editor of tlie Auckland Herald, i» at present in lowii, staying at the Cnteiioii Hotel. He proceeds norih by to-night's boat. His Excellency the Governor has been instructed, to recognise provisionally ine appointment oi ue Hun. C. Louissuu, m.uL., as Consul lor Liberia at Cnristcinircli.

Lasl night's L>u/.cUc uuliiics the appointment of the following JLtegisfrars of Jiluelors: —Owoi L. Bowling lor Buller, tiuorgc 11. Lang lor Malaura, Jules C. .J-aliiuy for Xuapelia, Henry L. Hill for Ciebojne, George i). Chisholin lor Chalmers.

Mr W. T. Jennings, M.H.K., was a passenger through to Auckland last uighl. He proceeds to ,Taumaruuui today and opens a school at Manunui and makes a presentation to a Mauri girl who sa,ved a white girl from drowning in the upper reaches of the Wanganui river in November last.

News has been received in Wellington, by private cable, of the death at Sydney on Wednesday of William, H. Nisbet, Mi. Mcch.E. managing director of the Westmghouse Brake Company of Australasia. Mr Nisbct possessed many friends in New Zealand, and also had a large professional acquaintance through both the Commonwealth and the Dominion, and his death at a comparatively early age will be much regretted. He has a brother in Dunedin (Kev. Dr Nisbett), a sister in Wellington (Mrs J. A. Pike), and a sister in London.—Press wire.

I Very many residents will regret to lca?ru of the death (1 f Mr Hugh Hughson, of YVcstown, who "crossed the bar" on Wednesday evening. Born in the Shetland away back in the year 1829, as a young m'<ui he was apprenticed to the s»a. and served his time out of the port of Shields, his" employers' vessels tradin" (principally ,to Jtho (Spanish Main; aj hard trade, deep-loaded with coal outwards, and iron ore on the return journey. The Victorian goldlields aitraeted his attention prior to the year 1800, when he returned to his native land, subsequently to leave, for NewZealand in 1880. During the groat maritime strike, he offered his services to the Union Steamship Co., and acted as quartermaster on the steamer Wanaka for some months. He leaves a numerous fumily (Mr T. P. Hughson, of Raholu, being the eldest) to mourn their loss and many residents of Now Plymouth and district will miss the familiar fifrure and honest grip of the patriotic, God-fearing old seaman I