PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 26, 24 February 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

Sir. T. M. Wilford was yesterday reelected chairman of the Wellington Har- ' bor Board, says a Press wire, i Mr. 11. Friedlander has been elected chairman of the Lyttelton Harbor Board ■ yi succession to Mr. Geo. Laurcnson, ' iU \ Miss Ivy Bishop, of Eginont Road, was the first lady to reach the top of Mount Kgmont this season, unassisted. This she accomplished on Sunday last. Mr. E. (!. Allen, ex-M.l'. for Chalmers, was entertained at a complimentary social at Port Chalmers last '.light and presented with a purse of sovereigns,— I l'ress wire, A fashionable wedding took place at Bt. IPaul's Church, Auckland, yesterday, when Miss Una Mildred l Williams, sixth daughter o'i Mr. T. C. Williams, of Wellington, was married to Mr. Reginald A. Hoare, second son of the late Mr. Clias. Hoare (of 'England).—Press Association telegram. Mr. G. L. Petersen, representative for I Messrs. Wirtli llros,, arrived in town lafct night to make arrangements for a one-night season, opening on I'n.lav. March 12, with a complete » • •">> pany, engaged in Europe liy • 1 ■Wirtli, also a real live giraffe'thai io»tl Elooo, the first ever seen in Austral-1 asia. f

Another of the old veterans of TaraI naki joined his father!* yesterday, in the person of Mr. William Marshall, of Inglewood. Deceased served in the Taranaki wars as servant in Xo. 2 Company. Tnrannki Hiilos, and participated in tlio lighting of those stirring days. Ilis funeral takes place to-morrow, the interment being made at To llcnui Cemetery.

The death is announced at Coventry .(England) of Mr George Ni'.iger, a pioneer of the cycle trade. Deceased was taken ill whilst at dinner, and expired a few hours later. lie was head of the Singer Cycle and Motor Companies. From a workmen he rose to be mayor of the city of Coventry. Mr Singer founded the great Coventry firm about 1874, and made it one of the biggest cycle manufacturing business in j the world.