PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 321, 21 January 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Dr. Black ley, of New Plymouth, is on a visit to Wellington. Mr. .1. B. llarcourt. of Wellington, will l>e in New Plymouth next week in connection with the liotatiou oi the Smait Boad Kaolin Company. .Mr, W. Hill, of the Yaiuation Department. is ;it present in New Plymouth assessing new buildings placed on the roll .since last assi -Muent. He will also have burliness in tue same connection »t Inglewood and Waitara. Mr Alexander Higgle, an old aud wellknown resident of Wanganui, died yesfceray morning. He sa-w active service in the Maori War, and was captain of the Alexandra Cavalry, He was a prominent member of several local bodies) and took a keen interest in horse-racing, at one time being a breeder and racing several horses.

The Rev. Ernest Warburton, wellknown throughout the Primitive Methodist Church of the Dominion, died at Auckland yesterday morning. He had' been ailing for some time. At the recent conference in Dunedin it was noti« fied that the Rev. Warburton was seriously ill, and had applied for superannuation. The application was unanimously recommended to the English authorities, and the Conference placed <oi record its high appreciation of the Rev. Mr Warburtoo's noble and selfsacrificing services.