PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 309, 4 January 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr, A. J. Clareburt, editor of the "Mew Zealand Bandsman," is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. Robert Young,, father of the llev. I!. Young, vicar ol St. Jlark's Church, Carterton, died at the Carterton vicarage on Thursday morning, at the age of ninety-nine years. Very Rev. Father Power and Miss Power are leaving Hawera shortly on a trip to the Old Land. They will connect with the Home boat at Melbourne about February 11. This will be Father Power's first trip Home since he left for New Zealand about 21 years ago. He will be absent about 12 months.

" Mr A. Alexander, of Normanby, who ecently purchased Mr G. Riddell's farm it Warea, has also bought Mr W. J. ioneyfield's fine residerjje at Moturoa. le is now living there. Mr Alexander hould prove a valuable acquisition, aa ic ia a very well-known breeder ol >ure-brcd stock and a successful exlibitor at agricultural shows. A Dunedin telegram announces thai m New Year's Eve Mr John Grej L'aiaroa was drowned at the Maor vaik while getting out of a boat 01 o the wharf. He was about forty-fivi •ears of age. The deceased was a grand on of the noted chieftain Taiaroa, o Jte Ngatitahu and Ngatimiamoo tribes vho took a leading part in the defence >f Kaiapol immediately preceding it ■apfcire by Te Rauparaha In 1831. M "aiaroa's father was the Hon. H. K Caiaroa, M.L.C-, who died in August i 905. The deceased was born in Otam ind educated at the Boys' High Schoo it Dunedin. He became a native in erpreter and practised for some year » the eighties at Hastings, Hawke' Jay. He subsequently returned to tb jputh and became chief on the death o »s father. But it was as a footballe hat "Jack" Taiaroa was best known writer in the columns of the lenland Times a few months ago re narked, when referring to the first visit n 188.4, of_ a New Zealand team t( Australia:—After a period of nearb wenty-five years Tairoa's name loom' ip largely in the history of Rugby. Thi 884 team was a strong combination al wind. It had many stars, notably Jacl Paiaroa, H. Braddon, J. Warbrick H loberts, T. Ryan, and T. O'Connor iut Taiaroa was the greatest of then ■ll. This player was what would b< :nown now as a three-quarter back; ai ndiaru,bber man, nuggety, etronaJ%st nd with all cunning- otliis ract le was a Rugby proposition whic! iould only be tackled successfully wit] m axe. At any rate' that is the pic «r e which mentally arises from tli egends attached to his name and whicl ire still spoken of with awo in Rugb ircles in New South Wales and Ne\ Zealand. Taiaroa played in all th natehes in the tour of the *B4 teair nd it is understood that he also score n every match. He might have score nore tries but for the fact on many oc asions he ran himself clean out. Thos rer c the Says of the individualism. I s recorded that in one memorable maW his Rugby ironclad Spreadeagled si opponents in one run, and then wit' no one between himself and the j»pr line, he fell to the ground from exhau tlon.

A (iisborne stablekeeper in a lave way is paying .C7O a month more than ill previous yearn for fodder for the horses.

latest lalior organisation is the Industrial Workers of the World, mi American institution, a branch of which wits formed tins week in our Capital City. 1

THE "lIARTNETT" PATENT MILK. ING MACHINE. Has certainly conic to stay: there is no room for doubt on that point. They are being instilled in all directions. Every plant erected seems to be the forerunner of fresh orders. Inquiries lead to speedy

conviction that the "Hartnctt" has no equal as a simple, safe, and effective Milking Machine. Its patented improvements are of a, very high order, and substantial in character. Those who have used the machines longest arc loudest and most frequent in their praises. It will be well for all intending buyere to get their orders promptly booked. The new season is at the doors; delay trouble and loss when the cows eome in, if fanners are not ready. For full particulars, apply to C. Dalil and Co.. Ltd., Palmerston North; or Tara-1 uaki Farmers' Co., Ltd., New Plymouth '