PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 14, 10 February 1909, Page 3

PERSONAL

. Mr. P. A. Hadley. of the Hartley .Pet- | iroleum Co., Carrington Koad. arrived by this morning's boat from Auckland. I Mr. E. T. Osborne, of the clerical :jtaff W the Stratford railway station, has s ' (been transferred to Xew Plymouth. Hone Heke, who has represented the Northern Maori District; in Parliament Wnce 1803, died in a private hospital at (Wellington yesterday morning frqin tubercular hemorhage, aged 40 years. » Mr. J. B. Connett (chairman of tfi e New Plymouth Harbor Board, and Mis s Connett, and Mr. Newton King (treasurer to the Board), with Mrs. King and Mr. Truby King, leave Auckland on the. 117 th insfc .in the s.a Maitai for Suva. (There they tranship to the Maktira for •Vancouver and then .proceed overland to Kew York, completing the journey lo ffingland by Atlantic liner. At yesterday's meeting of the Board of ; Governors of the Canterbury (Lincoln) Agricultural! College, the chairman (Hon. E. C. J. Stevens) stated that be had received a cable message from Mr. ,W. F. M. Buckley to the effect that ho had, on behalf of the Board, appointed Mr Kobert Alexander ito the position of Director of the College in place of Mr. W. Lowrie, who recently returned to take up the position of Director of Agriculture in Westralia. Mr. Alexander is to leave England for sK* the Dominion on March IStli.—Press *, wire.