PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 100, 16 April 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

.Mr. U. Carpenter, proprietor of til" Waim.ile Wit lie-, was ill vw Plymouth last evening, and leaves this morning for .UaslcrUm lur the LaMei vacation. .

The recently-appointed Viscount, the Right ffon. John AJorlcy, (Secretary for India, began his career in daily journalism on the Alomiiig .Star. Alilloiig.i for many years in Parliament, and one of the most polished orators in tinHouse, he is supremely the mail of letters. His "Life of Gladstone'' was the great literary event of lillKt. Had Jlr. Alorley given his whole time to politics, it is possible Unit the Prime Ministership would have been easily within his grasp. Viscount Alorley, by the way, lias relations in New Plymouth and Xanmaki.

\ iseount (Sir Henry) Fowler, (Jhancellor of the DucJiy of Lancaster, has hold tin; posts of Secretary to the Treasury and President of the Local Government Hoard under ilr. Gladstone, in Lord Koscbery's Ministry he was .Secretary of State for India.

The estate of tlio late Mr. Ancii McLean, who died in Cliristchurch last year, has been certified for probate at .£.>!)(>,'Jo4 13s ] Id. The Lyttelton Times records that personal property, after the payment of debts, is valued at about : .1120,700. The amount of probate duty that the estate, will pay has not yet been decided.

I'i'ur candidates were out in the Opposition inkTe-ts tor the Kgmont seat— Messrs. 11. Dive, .1. Marx, Preccc, anil ( . A. Will iillson. A meet illg < j|" lljijiusjlionists, however. convened by {lie organiser. Mr. Martin, was held on Tuesday night to choose .1 candidate, states a Press Association wire from Klthaiu. Mr Wilkinson refused to submit his name to the vote, stating that he would sland against all comers. Mr. .Marx withdrew his name, and in the absence of .Mr. l'reeee, a ballot was taken belli ecu him and Mr. Dive. The result was practically unanimously ill favor of Mr. Dive, who was therefore chosen as the Opposition cnudidate.

Among 1110 visitors to Wellington at I n't 1 -fill U Mr William Black, F.1U.8.A., civil engineer. ami a member of the Capetown City Council. Mr. Block's fsinu* is not unknown in New Zealand, his design for the Auckland Town Hall having secured second place to that ot Messrs. Clark and Clark, of Victoria, which won for him a prize of. /C2OO. lli.i design lor an immouse block for the New York Mutual at Capetown, which, cost CKiij.OOO, took first priz.?, which he has a siring of Iwuks, M-hools. town hails (including East London and Wynberg). hotels, and business blocks to his credit. Mr. Black bears out the reports of the bad times thai are being experienced in South Africa, and the results in the .seaports of that country. Only quite recently a case came under his notice where a city property. which he knew cost '.£23,501), was sold for and a big water supply ! scheme for Capetown had to be abandoned for the present on account of th»v marked depression. When Mr. Jilaek left Capetown, city property was still I valued for municipal purposes at absurdly inflated prices, though it was. in many cases, being sacrificed by owners desirous of securing ready cash, which has become such a scarce commodity. Similarly Mr. Black bears out the reports thai the Dutch people are in the a-cendant all over South Africa, and, in his opinion, their arrogant rule cannot be checked saved ly another war.