PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 9, 4 February 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr. Newton King, treasurer of the New Plymouth Harbor .Board, lias arranged to make the trip tu London iwi p connection with the raising of the harbor loan. Together with Mr. Connctt (the chairman of the Hoard) he lcav*\s{ on the 17th inst. via Vancouver, and will return to the Dominion directly after completing his mission.

Lord Northcote, ex-Uovcrnor-ticneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, has Leen created a Privy Councillor. Lord lhirton died after an internal operation, says a cable message from London. -Deceased, was a director of Bass and Co.'s brewery and a director of the South-Eastern Kail way Company, lie was born in 18157, and was educated at Cambridge, where he took his M.A. 1 degree. Lord Burton was a. Liberal in politics, having represented iu Parliament East Staffordshire. .Stafford, and the Burton Division «f -Staffordshire. The Hon. J. A. Millar inspected th*! Whangarei section of railway yesterday, making a trip to Kawakawa and back. He returns to Auckland this morning.— Press wire.

The Pa tea School Committee has recommended the appointment of Mr. A. Manouclough as headmaster. \ice .Mr. P. O'Dca, resigned. (iCiieral Booth recently had to undergo an operation for the removal of a cataract from his right eye. The operation was a satisfactory one.