PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 109, 29 April 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The following «ir e was received bv Mr. Isewton King last night regarding the condition of Mr. T. .loll:—"Tom doing 'well. ..Strong hopes for recovery " Mr. W. H. Hawkins, ex-AI.H.R. for lahiatna, i s on a visit to -\ew Plymouth Mr. F. .). Jones, District Railway Engineer, was in A'ew Plymouth yesterday upon official business. _ -Mr. W. U, Webb, of Stratford, is staying in town. The death is reported of Mr. K. B. Pearce, of Kakaramea, at the age of S2 years. He leaves a family of four son« About two years ago he lost his wife and since then lias been ailing. The vacancy in the Magistracy caused by 'the retirement of Mr. R. S. Bush at Thames, ha v bcen tilled by the appointment of Mr. James Sim Kvans, a weliknonvn Invcrciirgill solicitor, savs a I'ress Association telegram from'"Wellington.

Mr. W. S. Fisher, clerk in the Magistrate's Court at C'hristchurch, has been appointed Official Assignee at Diineilin in .succession to Mr. C. C. (iraham (retired). Mr. Fisher (sav.s a Press wire from Wellington) had eighteen years' exiierienco in the ollice of the Official Assignees,at Christchurch and Dunedin before entering the Magistrate's Court ollice. Mr. (!. 1,, (ireenwood. Hie retiring Official Assignee at Christchurcb. is to be succeeded by his chief clerk, Mr. 4', I Kvans.— Press wire. An old pioneer of Orcvlown, in the person of Mr. Williaiii,l!cngc, senr., died on Monday morning, at the ripe a"e of 8!) years. The new Lord Linlithgow, who comes of age on September 24th, is a godson of Queen Victoria—naturally enough, as he made his appearance when his father was Lord-iii-Waiting to her late Ma je.sty iu the year of her lilvd Jubilee. [ He and his younger 'brother, Charles, were great favourites with the Empress Frederick, who stayed at llopetonn House when they were boys, and was much iui'presscd by their charming yet natural manners. The lale King'of Saxony also stayed at llopetoun House, but that was when the new peer was a baby. Mr. Robert Fowlds, an elder brother of the Hon. George Fowlds (Minister ol Education and Public- Health), died in Aroo, Minnesota (U.S.A.), recently. Like his brother ill New Zealand, the deceased emigrated from Feuwick, Ayrshire (Scotland), fairly early in life. American newspapers show that Mr. Fowlibj wan one of the best-known farmers in his county. He was actively interested in. farmers' co-operative movements and in Christian effort.